DA VINCI LEDA TOILET PREPARATIONS AND PERFUMES ADVERTISED
An 1837 advert promotes cosmetics and toiletries from Rigge Robckback New Broad Street and other shops, listing perfumed extracts, hair tonics, soaps, and washes including Rose extract and Bouquet de Ne. It also mentions medical notes and jewelry items with jewelry suppliers canvony’s and a physician. A testimonial for a medical remedy from W A Kisroz is included along with notices of earrings necklaces and brooches and price lists for plate goods.
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Portugal
Rigge
Rigge, Hrockback
Aefers. B
New Bocd
American Mills and the Operative Class in Martineau's America
The passage recounts Martineau visiting American cotton mills in Pittsfield Paterson and Waltham. It notes female workers well dressed earning two to three dollars weekly living in company housing, and mills expanding with new facilities. It describes factory life, wages, hours about seventy weekly, and community institutions funded by the mills.
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Pittsfield
Massachusetts
England
Paterson
New Jersey
New York
United States
Philadelphia
Anaintance
Waltham
Boston
Lowell
Lyceum
Atey
United Suites
Martineau
America
Worcester Market Shows Active Trade and Cautious Growers
Market activity rose on Saturday with several parcels sold above last week's prices. Growers hold a large part of last year’s crop awaiting better conditions, while cold weather and backward growth pressures prices. Current bids include New Worcesters 70s to 96s, yearling ditto 63s to 75s, old hops Ws to 60a. Sixty six hogs entered the scales and eighteen more this week. Reports from Herefordshire note unfavorable conditions delaying plant growth and tying readiness, with 20d still infested in some areas. The rich soil bine appears hearty yet unusually late for pon.
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Worcester
Bette
Herefordshire
Memoir claims and provincial backlash from Whig leaders
H BATHURST writes a long, accusatory letter from North Creake, Norfolk, detailing alleged ingratitude and political treat ment by the Whig government toward his father, a Catholic advocate. He accuses ministers of neglect, proscriptions, and improper church appointments, and vows to publish a full memoir with documents and letters showing his father’s claims and his own deserts.
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Ireland
Lord Melbourne
Norwich
Troe
Earl Grey
Home Department
Fantend
Aly
Mr. O'Connell
Times
Earl of Albemarne
Earl of Mulgrave
Lord Mulgrave
C. B. Phipps
England
Killaloe
Milton
Melbourne
London
Duke of Norfolk
O’connell
H. W. Barron
Waterford
Lord John Russell
Mr. Stanley
Bathurst
Duke of Sussex
Lord Albemarle
Barron
Meltourne
Clarence
Aden
Augustus
Anthony
Lepidus
Casties
Romano Tribune
Clodias
Cicero
Liberty
Rome
Irland
Cxlion
Clodius
North Creak
Fakenham
Norfolk
P.S
Horrible murder of three children shocks Staffordshire Potteries
In Fenton, Ann Colley wife of George Colley a former superintendent of police murdered her three youngest children and wounded two others before attempting to kill herself. Witnesses described blood, a severed head like scene, and the mother kneeling with a fatal throat wound as neighbors and surgeons rushed to aid. A coroner's inquest opened as crowds gathered and evidence framed by a shocked community.
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Fenton
Staffordshire Potteries
Ann
George Colley
Goossnble
George
Josiah
Bac
John Beardsworth
Keece
Ana
Charles
W. Harding
James
Canning Inn
Staffordshire
Kingdom
Wito
Jobn Beardaworth
Cord Wainer
Colley
Spa
Ron
Mrs. Petey
Joseph Bailey
Abs
Sbe
Tragedy at Colley Farm Mrs Culley murders her children
In a distressing inquest report from Fenton, Mrs. Colley killed her children Ann, Charles, and the baby while lamenting poverty and the dismissal of her husband from police service. Witnesses describe the room, the knife, and her final statements seeking help for her surviving son George. Her husband, Colley, is noted to have been recently dismissed and shown as innocent in the acts.
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Thomas Howden
Thomas Whiston
Calfay
Sindir
Fentus
Beardsworth
Bailey
Colley
Ros
Charles
Feston
George
Charles Vale
Fenton
Ataira
Josiah
Cam
Mr. Vale
Iren
Ann
Thomas Bowden
Culley
Yashtieg
George Colley
Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution meets
The fifth anniversary meeting of the Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution drew a fashionable, respectable audience. H. T. Hope chaired. resolutions praised the institution’s local benefits, called for a larger library, and thanked sponsors and committee members. Letters of support were read, donations noted, and a bridgewater treatise gifted.
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H. T. Hope
M.P
Gloucester
R. Laws
Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution
J.johnson
William Curnton
K.C.B
Marylebone
Hattam
Mey
Gaimstead
Lord Colville
Lord Wicklow
Lord Stafford
R. Richardson
Henry Ellis
H. P. Hope
J. Cockburn
Institution
Montague
Charles Babbage
Bridgewater
House of Commons opens as 37 members present
The gallery opened shortly before four o clock but only thirty seven members were in attendance, preventing a formal session from being held.
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House OF Commons
St Patrick's Charity Schools Dinner at Freemasons Tavern
A St Patrick's Charity Schools anniversary dinner at the Freemasons Tavern was chaired by Mr Shiel MP with the Earl of Fingall and Mr Philip Howard MP in attendance. Toasts honored the King, Queen, Princess Victoria, Duke of Norfolk, and RC nobility, while noting charity benefits for destitute children in St Giles's. About 90 guests attended and subscriptions totaled three hundred pounds.
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Freemasons’ Tavern
Shiel
M.P
Earl of Fingall
Philip Howard
Craraman
Victoria
London
Ber
Mr. Shei
Duke of Norfolk
Lord Stourton
Earl of Fincad
Duchess of Kent
Kensington Palace
Shell
St. Giles's
Saint Patrick’s
Statue proposal for Duke of Wellington body of work outlined
A Wellington statue project was discussed with Sir Francis Chantrey accepting to sculpt an equestrian work possibly taking four years. The deputation plans to inform the Duke and consult on funding, with subscriptions from Lord Aberdare and Baron Vaughan noted and a six month appeal window for donations.
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Duke of
Duke of Wellington
Edinburgh
Xa Porter
F.C
Thasewer
de Cramman
Wyath Asaid
Clarkman
Lord Abloger
Baron Vaughan
Francis Chantrey
Duke of Rutland
Barclay
Alderman Wood
Richard Lambert Jones
London Bridge Committee
Emigration group discusses Prince Edward Island escheat letter
A Bloomsbury meeting of the Prince Edward Island Association heard a long communication from Sir John Harvey, Lieutenant Governor, urging reforms for lessees and tenants in PEI. He proposed long leases, rent in produce or money, and arrears relief, aiming to secure tenant prosperity and landowner interests amid ongoing escheat disputes. The assembly planned a reply and a special meeting to consider adoption.
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Prince Edward Island
Cuatn
Association
John Harvey
Prince
Government House
House of Assembly
Bernas
J. Harvey
Lauds
Prine Edward Island
England
Experimental Engine Draws Load in Ten Miles at Woburn
An engineer report describes a Boston and Lowell test on the Stonington line with a ten ton engine built in Lowell. A 49-burden train weighing 522,906 pounds moved 10 miles to a turnout in 51 minutes, carrying 373 bales of cotton and wool, 195 groceries, coal, and other weight. A second test shows the Patrick engine, nine tons, hauling 201 tons over 26 miles from Boston to Lowell in two hours brurtege minutes, without any special prep. The Madrid ministry proclaims Madrid in siege, and a Dover report notes a woman found dead at Shakespeare’s Cliff with uncertain cause.
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Boston and Lowell
Lowell
Stonington Road
Boston
Woburn
Saoeus
Sesesere
Patrick
Brurtege
Madrid
Morning Herald
Dover
Shakspeare
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