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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 17, 1786
Page
3
The readable fragments mention Fyaret fish and an Evening Post item with garbled terms. Occasional references include April, a healer, a tourney, a person named Gane, and vague notes about fever, cancer, and thanks to God. No clear event or coherent narrative emerges.
A detailed record of a public meeting on Friday discussing the proposed duty drawback provisions. Speakers including Mr Cooper and Alderman WatfetyPoo debated merchants brokers shipowners and policy makers about whether the new act would permit or restrict drawbacks and how to protect revenue while easing duties for exporters.
Journal text describes a disturbance at a Stratford location with a person struck and a suspect described as a white youth about 15 years old. It mentions arrests, a plea for vigilance, and a reward of ten guineas to pursuers for catching offenders connected to a theft at Millavess and references Stratford attorneys.
Fragmented notices describe Ludlow races with details on entry fees and prizes at Old Field near Ludlow in Shropshire, plus a Yorkshire estates sale in Scarborough by Patrick Dowsett and others, listing parcels of manor lands, shares, tythes, and related fixtures for peremptory sale by Chancery decree. The text also notes associated advertisements for patent medicines and retail by Bayley and Lowe in London.
An old advertisement touts an antiscorbutic essence prepared and sold at Dalma Hoy’s chemist in London for her majesty. It claims cure for scrofulous disease, notes a long list of medical virtues, and lists price and availability in various bottles.
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