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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 17, 1738
Page
1
Dispatches report ongoing Moroccan civil strife driving land degradation and scarcity, as rival factions clash and peasants abandon cultivation. A Belgrade advance of 100,000 troops faces Turkish fire on hospitals, while imperial efforts to arm fleets and seek peace negotiations unfold across Europe.
From Haddingtoun we learn that two men riding grey horses pretended to be sick at George Henderson's in Parkend of Leedingtoun on Sept 26. One was old and freckled the other blueish grey with black hair. They asked for a diam and claimed to have a guinea after which the coin proved to be bell metal gilded. They said the old man was a founder and travel through the country posing as sick and exchanging bad guineas. Seek arrests for the country’s good.
Marlborough reports a fire in a tallow chandler’s house destroying a ton of tallow and two dozen candles, halted by timely aid. Newcastle notes William Smith, absconder, jailed on murder suspicion after his wife’s death. his sixteen-year-old son sent to workhouse. Beaminster records a robbery of sixteen pounds eleven shillings near Beaminster. Marlborough sees John Pouting jailed for stealing a silver knife handle and a plough chain under oath.
London notes report the Earl of Tankerville traveling to the South of France for health recovery. Col Onslow kisses the King's hand for command of an infantry regiment formerly Cornwallis's. A young bride from Xitten weds a minor with a fortune of 10000. Yesterday the French strollers at Kensington took leave of certain figures as the fields indicated.
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