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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 15, 1764
Page
4
A letter advocates using dripping from beef as a cooking fat and urges the public to switch from tallow candles to beef fat to help the poor. It argues the practice will lower candle prices if English imports are allowed and condemns tallow chandlers. The writer pleads for servants’ winners and cooks’ compensation.
A reader informs the London Evening Post printer of Thursday’s column listing coins from Mr Thoresby’s Museum. A poor woman’s Charles the Second shilling on a farthing die is shown at Mrs Whitefoot’s Great Doil Haymarket. The writer asks the paper to publish to enable charity to aid the owner.
News notes from Presburgh and Paris describe the Empress Queen establishing a civil order of St Stephen with three classes, grand crosses and commanders, to reward public service under Hungarian crown authority, while other items report clerical household sales, corn shortages in Naples and Sardinia, and measures to curb export of grain to avert famine.
London reports a pardoning note to the Earl of Hertford and a ceremonial St Patrick's Day at court with royal collars. Portsmouth signals a tense eve of conflict, prices rise for rice, and Bermuda’s government awarded to a North Briton. Obituary for Viscount Malpas and various local notices arise, alongside ship movements, imports, and exchanges at the Downs and Cadiz.
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