Public letters and oddities from distant realms
Remarks in his own handwriting gain global attention as a treasure, while the Emperor jokes about leaving letters behind. A Pall Mall Gazette note warns of poisonous burnt almonds found to contain prussic acid and urges swift action. A Whitehall Times tale reports a dramatic telegraph office experiment shrinking a fat man with a battery, ending in a chaotic call from New York warning to cut the wires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Holland
Italy
St. Pancras
Sanitary Committee
Stevenson
Pall Mall Gazette
Whitehall Times
Whitehall
Washington County
State of
New York
Kilpatrick
Chili
Eddy
Patent food aids and medicines advertised in Cassell's guide
An advertisement excerpt promotes Dr Ridge's Patent Food for infants and invalids, available in 1s packets and 2s 6d tins, with claims of usefulness for custards and nursery dishes. It also touts Stedman’s Teething Powders free from opium, Materfamilias Pills, Holtows Pitts and Ornament ointments, and Holloway's remedies for wounds ulcers skin diseases and blood-related conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stedman
Children’s Hospital
Lkastroud
Hoxton
London
N. Holtoway
Holloway
Births Marriages and Deaths Notice Card
Births and marriages announced with details of names dates and locations. Deaths listed include Frederick William Waite aged five months and May M Combie and Samuel Grundy with addresses and brief notices.
A CARESS REFORM FUNERALS BY LONDON NECROPOLIS CO
The London Necropolis Company advertises cheap, simple funerals with economy. The chief office is at 2 Lancaster Place Strand W C, inviting prospects to inquire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Necropolis Company
Prospectus Free
Lancaster-place
Strand
W.C
Bank of England Ledger and Cocoa Factory Mention
The Bank of England report shows weekly financial figures for Government Debt, Securities, and deposits ending April 22, 1874. An aside references cocoa manufacture at James Epps and Co in the Euston Road and notes on Judson's Dyes as household dyes with quick dyeing times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
James Epps
Judson
London Market Report Shows Quiet Cattle Trade
Imports last week reached 14 018 head while sales moved slowly. Prices held near late rates with Scots and crosses at 5s 6d to 5s 8d per stone and lambs at 7s 0d to 8s 0d per head. Deptford reports 230 German beasts among mixed overseas supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan
London
Norfolk
Suffolk
Eecex
Cambridgeshire
England
Scotland
Gothenburg
Oporto
Deptford
Metropolitan Meat Market and Corn Exchange Report April 27
Market notes show moderate meat supply and slow trade due to warm weather with prices for beef pork and veal listed. Corn Exchange reports small foreign wheat supply, dull flour trade, steady cargo prices, and mixed grain movements amid mild declines in some items. provisions and dairy trade describe Irish and foreign butter, bacon, and cork market dynamics. Additional briefs cover Covent Garden fruits and vegetables, hops values, potatoes imports, seed markets, wool, and coal conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Meat Market
A. d. Os
Corn Exchange
Mark Lang
Ireland
Cork
Best Waterford
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hipwood—Underwood
Independent
Kibworth Harcourt
Leicestershire
Edmund Hipwood
Samuel Hipwood
Gloucester
Emma
John Underwood
Kibworth Beauchamp
Stanley—Richardson
Baptist
Warkworth
R. J. Mesquitta
J. H. Stanley
Wortley
Leeds
Jane Isabella
George Richardson
Amble
Northumberland
Richardson—Kelsey
St. Aubyn’s Congregational Church
Upper Norwood
R. Lewis
Alan W. Richardson
Reigate
W. R. Richardson
W. Kelsey
Bank OF England
Banking Department
Tor
Government Secu
May
Longfellow
Covent Garden
Channel Islands
Borouen
Mid and East Kent
Weald of Kent
Sussex
Farnham and Country
Farnhams
BorouGu
SptTatrigios
Antwerp
Dunkirk
Ghent
Boulogne
Louvain
Malta
Lisbon
Hettons
Hartlepool, Dba
EHO
Hottons
Essex
Kent
Chevalier
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