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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Nov 18, 1838

Page

6

Fire and accidents plague city and countryside

Eyewitnesses describe a deadly blaze that claimed a child’s life after a room fire and a quick rescue attempt. Reports recount incendiary arson at Handley’s farm and multiple injuries from falls and collapses in Kensington and Notting-hill areas.

Inquests Open on Several Self Inflicted Deaths in City

An inquest at the Sun Tavern Great Ormond Street reported Mrs Ann Eliza Sims 51 who died by hanging in a suspected temporary insanity. Other inquests at St George's Hospital Cock and Castle Kingsland Five Bells Little Moorfields cited accidental death and temporary insanity in cases of a six year old boy, Sarah Ward and Nicholas Gate.

Boweeld George Watson Wina Baker Rupert-street Middlesex Hospital Mayo Daeaprus Kensington Stephen. Bird High-street T. Division Kensington Church Campden Arms Tavern Gloucester Road Hyde Park Firet James Shepherd St. George’s Hospital Potteries Notting-hill Addy Park Street Islington Hatfield Herts Mevanchary Sun ‘Tavern Great Ormond-street Bloomsbury-square Ann Eliza Sims Mr. Sims St. Andrew’s Holborn Mary Ann Gould Dar Davey Hyde-park-corner William Bye Robert Barker Swan-passage Mount-street Sheppard’s Market Samuel Sutton Queen-street Oxford Street Catherine Manly Great Cumberland Street Hewett Kingsland Pierson Mr. Pierson Five Bells Little Moorfields Payne Nicholas Gate Cross Keys Gracechurch-street Jane Walker New Union Street Finsbury James Sanze Thomas Miller

Distribution of Army Regiments and Home Stations 1888 Record

From United Service Journal November listing regimental depots and stations across Britain and empire. Names include Bengal Chatham Jamaica Dublin Canada Gibraltar Malta New South Wales Portsmouth Ceylon Jamaica Madras and many more with multiple battalions and ships.

United Service Journal Regent’s Park Bombay Chatham Hyde- Park York Dorchester Edinbuurgh Dragoons Cork Dublin Bengal Cahir Hussars Canada Dundalk Lancers Leeds Leth Hussara Hounslow Canter Brighton Madr Birmimingham Hussare Glasgow Dublino Gren Gols St. George’s Cold Ga Portman Sc. Fs. G Wellington Edinburgh Devon Madras Tonian Isles Jamaica Guernse Templemore America Chathan Mauritius Tralee W. Indies Brecon Plymouth Ceylon Ports Kilkenny Manchester van D S L Belfast Armagh Gosport Cape of G.H New South Wales Bermuda Sunde Fermoy Gibraltar Carlisle Stirling Kinsale Enniskillen Chathi vVan W. I. Newcastle Tonian Islés Naas Cashel Dublin Co Corfu Clonmel Londery Anteri Newbridge Youghal Berbice Waterlo Nenagh Tist Buttevant G. H Paisly Clarecastle Indies Aber Boyle Barba Drogheda Malta Galway NS. W Chester Castle Sheerness Hull Portsmouth Stockport Mauri Castlebar Limerick St. Helena Dundee Bolton Athlone Tower Wealwich R Hythelst St. Lucia Honda Cape Mat African Colonial Corps Sierra Leone Sierra Leone R. Newfoundland Vet Newfoundland Fencibles

Bet on Muntz shave dispute shocks Birmingham

A Birmingham political figure Mr. Muntz faces rumors of a bet by a nobleman to shave one side of his face before December 25. Guards are vigilant as suspected shady visitors gather near his country home amid this public scare.

Mr. Muntz The Morning Star Birmingham Muntz Northampton Herald Marlborough-street Thomas Gibbons Conant Woolwich London St. Giles’s Wates Applicant Greenlaw Board of Guardians Webber Dorset County Chronicle Bridgewater Somerset Gazette

Radical Demonstration in Oldham for People's Charter

A torch lit public meeting on Curzon Street Oldham backs the Birmingham charter and elects James Mills as Oldham delegate to the national convention. Speakers include William Fitton and R B Cobbett who praise reformist unity and urge universal suffrage annual parliaments and vote by ballot. The gathering closes with cheers for MP John Fielden.

Curzon-street Oldham Birmingham London William Taylor Royton William Fitton M. F Earl Grey England Ae Ee R. B.cobbett Manchester James Holladay James Mills O'Connor J. Stephens Britain James Taylor Rochdale John Fielden M.P

Thirty Nine Lives Lost in Hazardous Fishing and River Accidents

A rocky week yields fatalities among seafaring crews with three boats lost and ten men drowned since the season began. The Walter and Ann sank after a sea capsized her, nine crew and one saved. Hales survived after hours in a flooded cabin. Elsewhere, a Wakefield railway accident killed a man and injured others, and arches near a viaduct require caution after a rubbish wagon collapse.

Mary Scarfe George Giles Walter Ann W. Campbell Hales Suffolk Chronicle Kirkgate Wakefield James Williams Rowlandson London and Birmingham Railway Euston Square Brandon Brimstone Scotland France Waterloo

The Anti-Eating Society A American Notion

A satirical letter from Simon Scarecrow in Sawdust Journal Gooseborough December 25 1337 mocks anti eating lectures by Dr Sawdust. It describes hunger chaos with pork and beef scarce, pebbled soup, cabbage like youths, and needleton reports of fasting cults while parties revel in extreme dieting and nutty dietary zeal.

Sawdust Journal Gooseborough Fried Withershins Library of Starvation Sawdust Dr. Sawdust Needleton Sapphy Simon Scarecrow

Metropolitan Medical Institutions and Rotterdam Vessels

The article notes there are sixty seven medical institutions in the metropolis including sixteen hospitals and ten lying-in and charitable facilities with various specialized clinics. It also describes Rotterdam Rhine freight vessels as houseboats with families aboard and the shipmasters enjoying river life, plus a passage on the Duke of Wellington's decisiveness and administration as praised by the Edinburgh Review.

Lock College of Surgeons and Apothecaries Court of Examiners of the Apothécaries Bath University of Durham London Rotterdam Rhine Holland Maes Germany Duke OF Wellington Burzs Edinburgh Review

Yorkshire and Lancashire Historical Almanack 1839 advertisement

An extended 1839 almanack offer details unclaimed money estates and legal notes for England Ireland and Wales. It lists advertisements about heirs estates ejectment debt law seamen consulates parliamentary elections and astronomical data. Includes horse winners Doncaster St Leger and vendor details in Leeds London and Liverpool.

England Ireland Sevetland Wales Yorkshire Lancashire United Kingdom Lord Lowther Gorge Armitage Hull Liverpool London Doncaster Queen’s Ministry Leeds Alice Mann Central Market

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