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Newspaper
London Evening Post
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 21, 1786
Page
3
An advertisement lists several educational manuals by Charles Wyse and others including guides to arithmetic, geography, and the English tongue. It promotes editions, pricing, and availability, plus sale of almanacks and schoolroom stationery with a long catalog of titles and publishers.
A printed notice describes a twelfth edition bound volume of DMAMELA or VIRTUE REWARDED in four volumes with price twelve shillings. It notes a narrative rooted in truth and aimed at virtue and religion, plus extracts from letters to the Evitar and prefixed observations. It lists publishers J. F. and C. Rivington and others and mentions other Richardson works and prices.
An 18th century medical treatise by William Brachan offers prevention and cure of diseases by regimens and medicines. It includes guidance on childhood care, wound care, and health preservation across occupations, with a new chapter on cold bathing. Separate sale of the additional chapter on old bathing.
A narrative of lifelong bile sickness with dizziness headaches and digestive distress lasting forty nine years. The writer cites repeated miscarriages and severe illness then credits a cure after consulting Dr Brown of Leicester Field in January around age fifty seven and invites inquiry at Mr Gillet No 208 Darby Court.
Private sale offer for an undefinable estate including a good farm house and 262 acres with arable, meadow, and woodland. Freehold and copyhold portions, eight miles from a town, accessible by three roads. Viewings through Mr Orc of Breven. for price contact Mrs Ant Warittee at Muleham or Sineyars.
An auction sale advertises a freehold manor near Stoke Mandeville two miles from Aylesbury with a farm house outbuildings and 189 acres of arable and meadow land. The sale is set for the governor day of November 1736 or earlier by private contract, with viewing arranged through Mrs Smith or Mr Chapin. The notice also mentions a lost person inquiry and royal revenue matters unrelated to the property.
Reports from London dated October 23 describe Mis Rys Hiphoc the Duke of Courland and his Princess hosting grand entertainments in honor of distinguished visitors. Revelations mention Counts and envoys, a planned marriage in Berlin, and ongoing diplomatic movements amid courtly intrigue and shifting allegiances.
A garbled 19th century news fragment describes accidents and local disturbances. It notes an explosion in a bread oven, a fatal or near fatal kitchen incident, a prison escape with a boy and a woman, and a violent brawl in Leicestershire. Also referenced are an attorney’s terse exchange, a fire at Boaghiey church, and a storm-related wreck near Sucbrook with multiple casualties and systemic distress.
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