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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 24, 1873
Page
10
A court heard officers state the board issued a moderate notice urging traders to close after 10 30 Sunday to comply with an Act. One defendant, a bird dealer, argued his shop could not close. The judge adjourned summonses for twenty eight days to avoid penalties if the practice ends.
A collage of odd notes and witticisms cites barbers, game law offences, and social flubs. Anecdotes include a Philadelphia publisher’s catalog jests, a widow hotel plan, Litchfield County wives, pulpit age norms, Magna Charta tailor, a sun never sets quip, an Irish pronunciation joke, and a West county court licence story ending with a sharp remark about documents.
Births marriages and deaths listed with details of brides and grooms including Algernon Fletcher and Harriet Mellor, William Moffat King and Elisabeth Scroggie, Katharine Harris and J Foster Lepine, J T Gow and Lucy Fisher, McMullen Prince and Charlotte Prince, Edward Upward and Elisa Ridgley. notices note prepaid charge and sender authentication. No cards.
Notices announce the Sept 17 marriage of Stephen Alfred Priest to Mary Jane Elliott and Sept 18 nuptials of Thomas Henry Knight to Jane Case. Deaths include Emma Mary Brown and Rev. William Wheeler aged 71 at Stroud with a funeral notice.
The London Necropolis Company advertises funerals with simplicity and economy. Prospectus available from Chief Office at 2 Lancaster Place Strand W C.
An advertisement-style note touts Judson's Simple Dyes with eighteen colours at sixpence each and promises full instructions from chemists. It cites the Family Herald praising ease of use for readers unfamiliar with the dyes. The item sits among other health and spirit product notices from Kinahan’s whiskey to Holloway's Pills claiming health benefits and universal use.
Markets report a small English wheat supply with liberal abroad arrivals and price declines. Metropolitan cattle and meat markets note quieter trade, lower English stock prices, and moderate imports of foreign cattle and sheep. Provisions report Irish butter gains and steady bacon. Covent Garden prices steady for fruit and vegetables, with shortages in lemons and late shipments. Hops markets show full new growth with firm rates and uneven day prices. Potatoes show rising arrivals and price weakens across Kent Regents.
A report from Monday September 22 notes new English cloverseed prices unsettled with no fixed rates while trifolium and trefoil show firmer demand. Old seed samples hold, white mustardseed commands full rates, rye scarce, winter tares steady, and winter barley available. Wool market quiet with steady values on foreign wools and firm prices for choice sorts. Coal prices listed for Hettons Wallsend and other pits with market firm at current levels. shipping activity noted.
Civil Service Gazette lauds Epps Cocoa as a digestion friendly breakfast beverage. It credits a thorough knowledge of natural digestion laws and fine cocoa properties for a delicately flavoured drink that may save doctors' bills. James Epps & Co. of London are named as the makers.
The Hon. Sec acknowledges a £10 donation from A. J. to Milton Mount College. The school has forty unoccupied bedrooms while many ministers' daughters seek admission for solid education, but current funds prevent their admission at Milton-next-Gravesend.
A man with wide advertiser connections and two years on a first class weekly staff seeks another post at moderate salary plus good commission. Unexceptionable references available. Address C. 8. care of Publisher of this paper.
The Ladies' School conducted by the Misses Hewitt with English and foreign masters resumes studies on Monday September 22. Multilevel curriculum and disciplined regime highlighted as part of the reopening.
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