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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 24, 1778
Page
1
A printed slate of books for school use including spelling dictionaries, French English and Latin dictionaries, grammars, and histories. Items feature Nugent, Charrier, Entick, Stackhouse, and Stitney works with prices and bindings noted for educational purposes.
A neatly printed two volume set offers tables letters and varied histories for school use. Published by Mr Rose of Chiswick and printed for Edward and Charles Dilly in Poultry and Elmsley Strand. Also available is Fauques de Vauchure French instruction text and Nuert’s New Pecker Dictionary second edition.
An 18th edition corrected to 20th instants includes an index of names and changes in administration since 1760. It lists MPs, contested elections, poll numbers, and select committee decisions. The work notes city and borough representation, right of election, and estimated voters. Printed for J. Almoa opposite Burlington House in Piccadilly with J. Bew selling elsewhere.
An advertisement proclaims Catholic Pills to cure gout and rheumatism in days, acting as an alterative through perspiration and urine. It promises safety for children, asserts universal health benefits, cites noble usage, and lists Tavistock Tow Covent Garden as the selling address at one guinea per box.
Historic advertisement touts Dr James's Powder as a thirty year tested cure for fevers and rheumatism. It warns against counterfeit preparations and names Francis Newbery and others as authorized sellers with receipts and certificates to prove authenticity.
Garmarthenshire auction notices advertise selling about three thousand maiden oaks marked on fallaris dene and timber from river Toivy. Purchasers gain convenient arrangements including houses for hair and grazing for horses during hauling and conveyance to the port. Also many Scots Firs and Ash trees offered. For details contact John Garnons and associates in Merfoethure Carmutten and Ta lieris view timber.
Compleat country house near Salisbury about 13 miles distant offers garden, coach house, stables, dog kennel, three cottages and 45 acres. Footing liberty near the bowl for partridge and woodcock shooting. 22 pairs of Narc hounds for disposal. Fixtures and furniture available. Inquiries to Henry Dench in Salisbury or Turner Upholder in Cavendish Square London.
Letters from Franckfort and Bamberg report Imperial troops taking possession of the Upper Palatinate and marching from Leger toward Scharding on the Inn with heavy artillery. They urge locals to protest foreign troops entering without notice and to show allegiance, dated January 8 and January 15 1778.
General Harvey presses a remonstrance on old British corps defects and demands three months notice for regiments to sail for America this year. Whigs debate funding, judges opinions, and parish subscriptions as tensions grow. Admirals named, ships ordered, and American captures reported amid warnings of despotic power and looming costs for national defense.
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