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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 15, 1769
Page
2
A fragmented late article page shows poems courting love and virtue, announcements about an apocryphal Bible subscription plan, medical notices for Jesuits Drops and related tonics, and advertisements from London booksellers and physicians. The text blends verse, public notices, and early 19th century commerce.
The Middlesex Journal presents a mock admonition as a speaker laments to a treacherous echo. The speaker pleads for silence and soft recounting of sorrows, warning the echo not to continue the mournful verse.
A public warning details Wessells alleging counterfeit Montpellier Jesuit Drops sold by RavenScroft and Co. at Fleet Lane and Old Bailey. The catalog promotes the remedy as a cure for venereal injuries, gravel, and blood purification, with numerous locations and claims of efficacy and savings, while noting prior legal actions and warnings.
An 18th century advertisement touts "Marehants Drops" by John Norton as cures for leprosy fistulas ulcers and eye inflammations. It claims digestion aid and appetite boost with bottles labeled only by Norton and lists locations in Piccadilly Golden Square Paternoster Row and Great Newport Street.
From Tunibridge Wells news arrives of a grand public tea held by the Duke of Leeds on the Prince of Wales’s birthday. 300 distinguished guests attended as illuminations and fireworks lit the grounds, with the Lady Spencer presiding at the main table and Finchbeck’s ball room hosting a lanterned display.
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