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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 18, 1787
Page
3
Notice of a forthcoming contract to farm stamps duties for three years from February next. Bids must be submitted three days before the mid January meeting, with names and addresses of bidders. Prohibitions include licensed travel and conveyance to the site.
Ridgeway announces a sale by auction of furniture and effects at Wanslead on Saturday December az at eleven o clock. The sale includes chairs tables cabinets beds and other household goods with items such as green upholstered pieces and other fittings. The premises are on Fenchurch street and viewing will occur on the preceding Friday.
William Harrison a Lennox merchant publishes a multipart appeal defending his actions in a family business dispute over Smiths tobacco trade assets. He details negotiations in Newcastle and London, conciliation with creditors, lease arrangements, and alleged misrepresentations while asserting his role in salvaging the business and protecting his own and family reputation.
The page notes a cabinet meeting on the Ruins Treaty and fears of war versus peace, plus reports of industry and employment shifts. It mentions the empress, green cloth workers, Lyons silk scarcity, and various towns' economic distress with several dates and places implied.
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