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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 10, 1869
Page
10
Petitioners urge robust Poor Law provisions to ensure food clothing and shelter for all in need while preventing impostors. They argue improved labor requirements, universal relief, and stronger administration would cut beggars and crime, though some oppose affirming Elizabethan policy words. The meeting ends with thanks to the chairman.
Reports detail a theater fire in Priddy causing over 20000 pounds in damage, a Bishopstowne street gas blast injuring two children, two suffocated men in a Trowbridge vat, and a London policeman killed during crowd control. Also noted are a wife and grandfather found dead by a shipwright suspect, a Thames body, a fatal fox-hunt ferry accident near Ripon with six drownings, and multiple notable recoveries and responses.
A Plymouth telegram declares the report of the Eddystone Lighthouse being destroyed is unfounded. The column also reviews a string of light humor and anecdotal items from Britain and America, including a pedlar tale, a porpoise plan, and stories about Metternich and public manners.
Lord Brougham relates a tale where a man, after accepting a coin, is startled to hear the name Robert Simson son of John Simson of Kirktonhill and suspects an impostor. The anecdote is presented with modest detail.
Births and marriages listed with names and dates across multiple towns and chapels. Notable entries include Payne at Worstead Norfolk with a daughter, Bachlor at Royston Cambs, Baines in Leeds with a daughter, and numerous wedding notices in chapels and churches. Death notices conclude with several obituaries from Cornwall to Reading.
The advertisement urges early use of Holloway's Ointment and Pills to ease throat irritation and chest heaviness amid changing weather. It claims the remedies prevent ill health, reduce severity and frequency of symptoms, and restore respiratory harmony with skin applications and oral doses.
The Corn Exchange in London reports a very short fresh English wheat supply and deteriorated conditions due to weather. Millers bought sparingly with only the best samples saleable. foreign wheat in short supply. Trade slow, flour retail demand weak, peas and beans down 1s per quarter, malting barley down 1s to 2s, oats moderate supply with inactive demand, and Indian corn 1s lower. Ports show many cargoes for sale. Wheat and barley held last week’s prices.
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