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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 02, 1787
Page
2
A quirky historical receipt style verse from a healer urging patience and home care for a cough. It offers advice on diet mood and warmth while noting the advice may not relieve symptoms. The text sits as a satirical or burned manuscript fragment with mis-typed phrases and period language.
The report describes ongoing naval buildup in Britain with ships ready at Spithead and Deptford, officers arriving from London, and a fleet including the Victory slated for commissioning. It notes French financial distress, Austrian diplomacy, Prussian actions near the Rhine, and letters from Vienna, Cherbourg, and New York shipping routes, plus local events in Windsor and at Dover.
Letters from China recount a severe famine abroad and shortages of essentials. The text notes ships failing to reach destinations and private wealth enabling large trade moves, including a Canton merchant circulating tea and raw milk worth eleven hundred thousand pounds this year.
Portsmouth shows signs of an impending clash as inns raise prices and papers predict open hostilities. The India Company denies furlough orders for officers in Finland. Greek quarrels mirror the looming conflicts. Covent Garden and pantomimes like Hury Burly tease audiences with seasonal changes.
Theatre notes from Covent Garden describe Mr Blanchard in Hodge In Love and Sharp in Garrick's The Lying Kilt with praise for his opera singing and comic ability. Mrs Billington as Rosetta delights, audiences crowded by fashionables. includes Sporting Intelligence from Newmarket First October Meeting with detailed race odds and entries.
A convivial gathering featured performances by elder and younger Clacks Sedgwick Hindle and others. Public attendees praised the entertainment as fitting and well deserved, recalling a memory of Pasten and an evening of merriment.
Fragmentary text mentions individuals and places with broken terms, lacks coherent events or dates. Unable to determine a clear news item, person, or action from the garbled OCR excerpt.
The clipping lists various stock and bond phrases such as fractions of stocks, dividends, and annuities. It mentions percentages, terms like Ghost Bank and South Sea Stock, and phrases like Exch Bills and Tickets. The text appears as garbled OCR with scattered financial shorthand and no coherent narrative.
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