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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 11, 1786
Page
1
The document appears as a dense, fragmented transcript of debates over fish imports and quality controls. It references herrings, cargoes, repacking, and penalties, with mentions of committees, reports, and potential rewards tied to enforcement and price standards.
Fragmented passage discusses cod values and denomination changes, mentioning Hiberdine and related terms. The garbled text references shipments, foreign exchange, and a committee, but key details and entities are unreadable.
The readable fragments reference names such as William Ireland, Luke Abbott, and Robert Lanttot, with assorted places including London and St Johns. Mentions of dates like June and May appear, alongside references to charts, courts, and academic ties in an archival listing.
A damaged OCR lists individuals such as John Fidel Jamiet Morton Joferh edie and Edward Brent with trades and addresses in London Kent Bristol and Brecon. It notes certificates to be granted on or before May 30 for various trades including lime merchant calico printer innkeeper and cabinet maker with names and localities.
A 19th century style pamphlet announces a poetic epistle from the ghost of Dr Johnson to friends Strusuas Bosween and Pipers with notes. The piece, priced at three shillings, is printed in the original with critical biographical and historical explanations.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a noisy catalog or pamphlet page listing items, names and places with scattered phrases. Numerous proper names appear amid garbled phrases, suggesting a periodical compilation, library or sales notice with unclear context and damaged readability.
Fragmented OCR lists medicines, patents, and labeled goods for sale from a historical catalog. It mentions patent drinks, cakes, shoes, goats, and various products and distributors, with scattered notes on bottles, tissues, and mercy items.
The House of Commons debates fraud prevention in coals shipping and a Middlesex jail project, plus funding for patrols in St Margaret and St John with Westminster. Admiralty offices present a new building plan and hawker licenses are reviewed. A whale fishery bounty bill proceeds to committee. A confusion of reports mentions Captain Lichfield’s murder case and Algiers trade disruption affecting merchants in Cadiz and Atlantic routes.
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