Smallpox Plague Among the Poor and Sisterly Aid
A Times letter by Robert Brett details dire conditions among poor smallpox victims, highlighting a dedicated band of Sisters who nurse the sick. Cases include a boat finisher's family losing children, ragged blankets, and nightly watch by Sisters amid severe deprivation. Also reported: University College London officers re elected, a large bequest, and a Leicester street stabbing where a drunken butcher killed Benford and injured others. suspect Barrow held on wilful murder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Times
Robert Brett
Stoke Newington-green
Brett
University Cottear
London
Lord Belper
George Grote
F. H. Goldsmid, Bart
M.P
George Buchanan
Julian Goldsmid
John Hodgkin
Chas. Z
Macaulay
Wm. Dougal Christie
T. 8. Osler
Richard Quain
F.R
EB. J. Nettlefold
Felix Slade
J. T. Graves
Cheltenham
Graves
Leicester
Jonathan Barrow
Clarence Street
Benford
Barrow
Elizabeth Wye
George Glover
Howes
John Thomas Barnard
Glover
Wye
Gleanings and Humorous Snippets From Various Notes
A collage of brief items including a mortgage sparing a house from a storm, a zoological death of a young hippo from exhaustion, a quip about endless meetings, a Chicago Congregational Union collapse viewed by an American paper, Melbourne Christmas woes with flowers and delirium tremens, a thermometer theft at Fond du Lac Reporter, and a door closure at the New York Tribune with a Spruce Street entrance note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zoological Gardens
Congregational Union
Chicago
Melbourne
Victoria
Fond du Lac
Fiont
New York Tribune
Amusing World News Bits From the Borough to Edinburgh
A collection of light vignettes and quick tales spans topics from a Dartmouth mayor offering a smallpox information reward to avoid outbreaks, street tricks by London Beccars, a Pat in a cheese hat, a Canton dinner quack moment, a New York witness with many trades, and an Edinburgh dean joking about mice eating the sermon start.
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Greely
Dartmouth
Pat
Canton
New York
Freeport
Ohio
Indian Department
Washington City
New York City
Servon Mpre Dirricultrgs
Patrick Stewart
Edinburgh
Bank of England Account Summary February Week Ends
An account under the 7th and 8th Victoria act reports for the week ending February 22. Totals show notes issued at 36,101,000 pounds, government debt 11,015,100, other securities 3,984,900, gold bullion 21,101,000, yielding a grand total of 86,101,000 pounds. Deposits include public 8,577,521 and other deposits 10,741,451 with seven day bills 699,201. Chief Cashier Geo. Forses signs the statement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Crourtatnen Capitalet
Reseyeee Caetevense
Holloway remedies touted for coughs and throat ills
The advertisement promotes Holloway's ointment and pills as cures for harassing coughs, bronchitis, pleurisy, and throat ailments. It claims the front chest rubbing and purifying pills relieve airways and purify blood, with other illnesses also said to improve. Kinahan's Irish Whisky advertised as superior whiskey with wholesale depot on Great Titchfield Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holloway
Kixanan
Kinahan
Great Titchfield Street
Oxford Street
Wheat Market Steady With Limited English Wheat Sales
Markets report for Corn Exchange Mark Lane on Monday February 27 notes small supplies of English and foreign wheat. Trade remained steady but limited with English wheat sales described as constrained.
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Corn Exchange
Mark Lane
London Market Report and Prices for Wheat and Provisions
London prices hold for foreign wheat with no change in flour values. Metropolis bread costs remain lined at 7d to 8d per 4lb loaf. cattle trade quiet with average imports and mixed quality, prices to 5s 8d per 8lb. Provisions show butter and bacon imports, Normandys selling at 16s to 14s, and Dutch declines. Covent Garden reports higher demand for quality vegetables, potatoes steady, hops hold gains, and seed oils steady with quiet tallow market.
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Harley
London
Metropolitan
Norfolk
Suffolk
Essex
Cambridgeshire
England
Scotland
Ireland
Best Waterford
Covent Garden Market
Cornwall
France
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Bank OF England
Issue Department
Banking Department
Government Securities (Inc
Geo. Forses
Harlingen
Gluckstadt
Rotterdam
Borough
Mid and East Kents
Wealds
Sussex
Farnham and Country
Olds
Borones
Spitalfields
Y.C
Kent
Prag
Norfolk & Sutulk
A. d
Ts, &O
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