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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 05, 1786
Page
3
Fragmentary text references a single lady and a married clergyman near London and mentions board lodging, terms and corn particulars to A B Senegal Coullee. The readable content is highly garbled with no clear events or dates.
The Oddisham Industrial Society will hold a general meeting at the George Inn Udtham on Saturday October 6 at eleven in the forenoon. Rev James Cooke will trial his Patent Drill Machine and Mr Horn his Universel Sewing Machine and Drill Plough. Members and agricultural friends are urged to attend. Secretary J Buntingford.
Inland carriage notices list post coaches and fares from Holborn and nearby towns. English routes include Dover, Canter vary Mat Coakh, Oxford, Shrewsbury, Bath, Manchester, Edinburgh, Worcester, and more with guards, four miles per stage, and nightly or daily departures. Provisions warn proprietors not responsible for parcels over five pounds unless entered.
A fragmented 18th or 19th century page describes a dubious guide titled A Practical Essay on the Venereal ..., arguing against salivation cures and proposing an approved Suchwaneum. It details several alleged cases and lists physicians and medicines, including references to salivations and ineffective treatments.
Auction by Mr Aldridge lists multiple lots including MMA a brown mare by Seep and dam by Blank, Lot 2 Barbenoa a bay mare by Herod, Lot 3 a chestnut mare by Julius Carter, Lot 4 Tastemuzzy a brown mare by Snap, and several foals and young horses by Pontifex and Pretender. Also notes a bay gelding five years old who has carried a lady and a bay cropped mare eight years old noted as a remarkable leaper.
Auction notice for the manor and freehold lands including Leighton Broms and associated manors Brinton Old Woolds Wootwand Calhea Wood and Calpe Wood. About 3989 acres valued at 2636 pounds yearly. Sale to be held November goth in Symrond's Inn London with the Crystallized details displayed at multiple offices.
A freehold estate near Stoke Mandeville in Bucks to be sold by private contract if not disposed of at Two o clock on November gth 1786 at the George Inn Aylesbury. Describes farm house barns granary and outbuildings with 180 acres and road, arable and meadow lands in common fields, timbered and improvable. Let to Mr George Thorn. inquiries to Messrs Smith and Cardale Gray's Inn or Mr Chaplin Aylebury.
Abstracted from the London Gazette July 1786, an Yorkshire patient in Whitehaven with chronic stomach and bowel distress reports rapid relief after using Oriental Vegetable Cordial by directions. The testimony claims renewed appetite strength and vitality after two bottles, with the seller listing wholesale and retail sale details in London.
The Holywell Hunt invites entries for a Monday event on the New Course in Week Hunt with a fifty guinea prize for horse ownership by members only. The meet includes a best of three two mile heats and a fifty pounds plate, with other sweepstakes and forfeit offerings. details appear in Evening Ballon and local notices.
A Windsor Forest deer hunt opened the day with changes in hunting days. The Guildhall Aldermen discussed bread, a party-wall case, officer appointments, and lamp contracts. Notices warned against November squibs and coach regulations while physicians executives were reelected. Occasional obituaries and local incidents, counterfeit warnings, and a roadside relic tale closed the column.
The notice describes a draught of lottery numbers and ticket sales with varied prices and lots, listing numerous numbers and references to shares and tickets. It notes government stamping of shares and exchange terms, and warns that chances and policies outside tickets and shares are not sold, with Receipts exchangeable.
Jacob Hemet presents Essence Of Pearl and Pearl Centifrice to the public claiming superior efficacy safety and elegance. The dentifrice purportedly whitens teeth preserves enamel freshens breath and prevents toothache or scurvy in gums. Sold wholesale and retail through Bayley and Perfumer Cockspur Street Thomas Golding Cornhill and John Price Leadenhall Street at 6d each.
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