Pantechnicon Fire Massive Losses Endanger Valuables in Belgravia
A London blaze gutted the Pantechnicon warehouse in Belgravia, destroying a vast art and valuables collection valued at millions. Sir R. Wallace and others reportedly lost works by Turner. insurers face heavy losses as owners misinsure crates and plate items. Proprieties and offices were besieged by anxious depositors seeking recovered goods.
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Church of
Belgravia
Pantechnicon
R. Wallace
Turner
Law Office
Law Fire Office
Sir Frederic Sykes
London
Miscellaneous Victorian Curiosities and Notices
A collection of brief items: a riddle about losing an eye and a nose, a Lowestoft box order for 10,000, sugar consumption rising to a million tons, new utopian works by Mr. Tinsley, a long sermon critique, Dickens life editions selling fast, John Wesley anecdote, Liberal member Mr. Jenkins’ lectures, Abbé Roboisson’s France book on Daniel, Chambord’s succession claim, Moorish Morocco House moved to Vienna grounds, steam engine danger warning from Mr. Noel, and a New England remark about a father’s death hesitation in a curious anecdote.
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Messrs
Lucas Brothers
Lowestoft
Tinsley
Mr. Forster
Dickens
John Wesley
Edward Jenkins
Dundee
America
United States
Canada
The
Times
France
Abbé Roboisson
Daniel
Comte de Chambord
Vienna
Schmidt
Tangier
South Kensington
A. Leland Noel
Free Voters and Odd Quips in 1872 Times
A Bristol Times anecdote recalls a wary voter at Bere Wareham who dodged promises saying he might vote for a pig. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn condemns four wheeled cabs as disgraceful and cites European cities’ flaws. A tariff bill error briefly put fruit on the free list, and officials kept duties until a comma was fixed leaving nearly $2 million in taxes at issue.
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Waal
Bristol Times
Bere
Wareham
Guest
Curer
Tichborne
Cockburn
Europe
Customs
Owever
Ways and Means Committee
Brooklyn Argus
Grove Slatterie Wedding at Ebley Chapel
A wedding notice records the February 12 marriage by licence at the Congregational Chapel in Ebley near Stroud Gloucestershire of Capt William Grove of Swansea to Miss Fanny Slatterie only surviving daughter of the late Rev John Slatterie of Ebley.
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Grove—Slatterie
Ebley
Stroud
Gloucestershire
E. Jacob
W. B. Woodman
Wm. Grove
Swansea
Fanny Slatterie
John Slatterie
London Necropolis Company Funeral Offer
The London Necropolis Company announces simple, economical funerals offered from its Chief Office at 2 Lancaster Place Strand London. Prospectus available free.
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London Necropolis Company
Prospectus Free
Lancaster-place
Strand
W.C
Bank of England Weekly Account Update 1874
The Gazette lists the Bank of England weekly account figures for the week ending February 11, 1874. It reports Notes issued at 36,732,260 pounds and summarizes Government Debt 11,015,100 pounds, Other Securities 3,984,900 pounds, with Gold Coin and Bullion totaling 21,732,260 pounds and Silver Bullion listed under the same total.
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Bank OF England
Victoria
Banking Department
Tor
May
Fresh arrivals slow as English and foreign wheat fall
Markets report small wheat arrivals with mild weather weighing on prices. English and foreign wheat drop 1s per qr from last Monday. Flour demand is weak, peas and beans steady, barley down, oats and Indian corn lower. coast cargoes slow with slight wheat uptick. Metropolitan cattle market dull with lower prices. sheep and calves weak. meat market slow. provisions show mixed butter and bacon prices. Covent Garden notes tight fruit supply and rising best potatoes. hops trade weak with uneven prices. potato imports large with steady demand for sound lots.
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Metropolitan
London
Norfolk
Suffolk
Cambridgeshire
England
Scotland
Ireland
Covent Garden
St. Michael’s
Paris
Europe
Algiers
France
Borouan
Mid and East Kent
Weald of Kent
Sussex
Farnham and Country
Farnhams
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Epps
Civil Service Gazette
James Epps
Blair Street
Edinburgh
Stedman
G.C. Harvard
Cheapside
Oxford-street
Vaaletudo Visquy J.iberis
Aarkets
Maxx Lang
BorouGu
SpitatrisLps
Dunkirk
Antwerp
Harlingen
Ghent
Louvain
Amsterdam
Rouen
Essex
Kent Pras
Chevalier
Pale
New
Bearns
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