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Newspaper
Middlesex Middlesex Journal
Location
Middlesex, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 14, 1772
Page
2
A long, fragmented critique parodies 18th century manners and fashion. It mocks Mr Stevens lectures, social pretensions, and a crowd of figures from poets to painters, with digressive anecdotes on hats, cravats, and gendered dress, ending in a breezy toast scene and jests about Metaphone and Demi-reparay. The piece lampoons public taste, idioms, and theatrical tableaux.
A pamphlet frontispiece designed by the author ridicules the Senate and major figures like Lord North and Lord Barrington. It laments their deceit and urges action against power, describing a political scene at St Stephen's Chapel and referencing Otway’s lines. Printed for G. Kearfly at Ludgate Street with Westminster sale.
An 18th century advertisement touts a new edition of a fortune telling pack and a deck of conversation cards. It claims cards enable instant fortune telling without stars or familiars, offering refunds if directions prove false. It marketingly notes moral amusement for youths and family entertainment.
An old advertisement offers a patent liquid blacking for shoes that yields a deep glossy finish without cracking or odor. It promises easy application, no staining of fingers, and durable shine. Sold wholesale and retail by multiple perfumers in London at sixpence a cake for a full pint of liquid blacking.
An early 19th century advertisement touts Essential Salt of Lemons as a versatile cleaner. It claims to extract iron moulds ink stains red wine and general grime from lace muffin cambric and linen without damage. Sold wholesale and retail in London outlets including Cockspur Street Haymarket India House Denhall Street St Paul’s Yard Grosvenor Turn Stile and New Bond Street at one shilling per box.
An advertisement proclaims a radical cure for bladder and kidney stones by a specific solvent medicine. A sufferer testifies to five years of pain and failed remedies, credits Adams’s Solvent with disintegrating stones, and notes certificates from St Thomas’s Hospital. The medicine is sold in bottles with pricing and supplier locations in London.
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