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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 18, 1872
Page
9
Officials propose a plan to advance education and learning. Signatories are urged to act next term and consider practical methods to promote the stated objects, ensuring benefits to both education and ongoing learning.
In a collection of items a London reader learns of plans for British Museum translator Mr. Smith to travel to the East to search for Assyrian stones if trustees approve. Professor Agassiz attacks Darwinian evolution as unproven, calling it a mire. New York fashions feature natural gray hair as the chic look, with wigs in gray favored. A London dissenting church laments a lost sermon presented with postage stamps as a quixotic “for a lost sermon” gift, hoping honest return.
BIRTHS Kemp Welch Vardy Seymour Massingham Exley Cony ers Hatfield Turner announce births from Leigham Avenue Maidenhead Stamford Hill Headingley Hill Clapham Clapham Road and other locales. DEATHS Lang Carter Shaw Lloyd Simpson notice of deaths with ages and residence details.
The market notes show varied activity with Beasts and sheep at modest gains and softer demand for English butter and bacon. Dutch and Gothenburg stock sold at fair prices while pigs remained steady. Potatoes and seeds held firm with foreign imports listed and weather dampening trade. Wool buyers showed steady interest.
Quality levels held firm with steady demand for linseed oil and rapeseed. other oils moved slowly. Tallow market inactive with spot prices at 45s for new C and 43s for old C per cwt. town tallow at 42s 6d net cash. Coal markets rose 6d per ton with Gosforth 25s 6d Hartlepool 27s 6d Lambtons 27s Hartleys 25s 3d. Ships arriving and departing noted with counts.
An assortment of 19th century product notices includes Epps Cocoa praised for digestion and nutrition in Civil Service Gazette style, with preparation by boiling water or milk. Also Judson's Dyes and Kinahan's Whisky noted, plus Holloway's Pills claimed to boost digestion, strength, blood tone, and disease resistance.
Advertisements list several positions after Christmas in education and households. An assistant master for a well established boarding school, an experienced housekeeper, a governess able to supervise children, and a housekeeper for a drapery firm are sought with preferred qualifications, salaries, and contact details.
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