Curious Anatomical Spectacle At Rackstraws Rooms
At Rackstraws great Exhibition Rooms numbers near Temple Bar Fleet Street a bizarre display shows a seven month pregnant figure with exposed arteries and veins in simulated blood flow. Also shown are a whale skeleton seventy feet long with massive head and eye details, a rhinoceros horn and other curios including a mummy and a magic box. Admission two shillings with a note for proper ladies attenders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rackstraw
Temple-Bar
Fleet-Sweet
Jengith
Isle of Thanet
Mr. Bemford
Hosiery Sales and State Lottery Notice in Fleet Street Advert
An old advertisement details E R Felton offering hosiery at reduced prices with a wide range of goods from silk hose to thread stockings and breeches pieces, all priced and described for ready money. It also notes sensitive customer caution on prices and mentions a state lottery scheme, with tickets in Holborn and drawing beginning November 13, listing prize values and payment terms.
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Chico
Royal Academy
Michaelis
Comet
Royal Society
Gottengen
Quatto
Price
Reid
M. Mu
Hall
Saxony
Bilancia
I Pandolf
Vincenzio Martinazza
Eadie
Fleet-Street
E.R
Felton
Star
Popes Béasford-Batld Ings
Bichards and Co
Fetterlane
Holborn
London
Parliament
Blankston
N. B
Garraway
Ottoman War Dispatches and Polish Theater Shifts
The despatches describe Ottoman forces burning Polish towns and retreating toward the Danube as Russian winter quarters loom in Poland. Turkish suspicions grow over the Grand Signor’s plans, while the Turkish bodyguard is bolstered to 40 000 janissaries. News from the frontier notes Polish confederates and a looming Russo Morroco treaty, with city fires and executions marking upheaval across Europe.
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Este Ie
Schiwalow
Efiimy
Bender
Moldavia
Nise
Poland
Lubominski
Joe Bréflaz
Choczim
Danube
Bar
Rusia
Lifton
Board of Trade
Moraco
Rastia
Oletta
Court Dispatches and Royal Edicts Amid St James's Levee
A London report details a thin levee at St James's and a long conference between the Earl of Hilborough and the King, with cabinet discussions at Arlington Street and dispatches to Versailles. It notes a relief donation for Antigua after a major fire and ordered relief distribution, plus military orders for the electorate of Hanover and a breech of a song heir’s estate, ending with a town arrival from Guerphiy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
St. James’s
Earl of Hilborough
Amarca
Ireland
Earl of Weymouth
Arington Street
St. John’s
Antigua
Alderman
Harley
Secretary of ‘State
Henry
Bennet
Eig
Herboule
Guerphiy
Fragmentary 18th Century Dispatches Mention War Fears
Letters from New York Vienna Petersburgh Leghorn report alarms of an Indian war, noble deaths, and court promotions. Rumors cite Detroit warnings, Turkish moves, and battles near Bender with Swedish ties. Obituaries note Raby Vane and several justices and ministers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William Johns
Detroit
Uée
Vienna
Martha Count Kellewrath
House’of
Austria
Fobago
Petersburgh
Ruilig
Pultowa
Adrinople
Lon
Leghorn
Black Sea
Staindrop
Durham
Raby Vane
Earl of Darlington
Royal Navy
Islington
Charles Palmer
Middlesex
Lambeth
James Lea
Upper Brook Street
John Bowen
Jesuit Drops advertised cures venereal disease
An advertisement for Care and Original Jesuits Drops claims efficacy against venereal disease with back pain and other symptoms in both sexes. It defends the inventor against a rival patent claimant, notes prior use for forty years, and warns against defamatory advertising. Medicines offered include a chemical itch remedy and whitening agents with prices and distributors listed in Fleet Street and Tunbridge.
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K. Rock
Golden Head
Aid Key
Hell-Savage Gateway
Ludgate-Hill
Trug
Guild- Hall
London
Wiese Makers
Wiese Makers Royal Letters = ;atent
Whitcomb
Angel-Court
George Wile
Tunbridge
Kent
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W. Bingley
King’s Berch Prison
Faulkner
Kerwise
D—ll—ll—n
H—ll—f—x
Island
Peter Paragraph
Dublin
Jiaerann
France
Abbot Veley
M. Villaret
M. Garnier
Regius
O&ava
England
W. Brxcury
Sitannia
Newgate
Portugal
D’gyras
Middle-Temple
Thomas Marley
Lord Bihop
Exter
Vitory
George the Third
Wiliam Alleny
Henthaw
Horsemonger-lane
St. George’s Fickis
Allen
Lepels
Davprn
Tonalahi
Seer Esadt
Jeajer
Londo UN
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