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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
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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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Gibralter
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Chat
Holbein
Lasdella
Jax Callot
Sherwood, Gilbert, Piper, & Co
Paternosterrow
Trex Sun
Toya
Teme
Weekly Chronicle
Sherwood & Co
Holbsin
Morwine Carowicia
H. Hetherington Euectane
Landells
Hans Holbein
Stationers’ Company
Fratcia
Moore
Goldsmith’s
Rider
John
Partridge
Hyde
Victoria Gate
Englehman
Charles Knight and Co
H. Hetherington
Strand
Ranklin
Franklin
Benjamie Franklin the Younger
Preas
Victoria
Queen Victoria
Abel
B. D. Cousins
Ducke-street
Lincoln’s Inn-Fields
London Free Press
Morison
James Morison
Morison’s
British College of Health
Hamilton-place
King’s Crosgaete
Govarmee
Jamey
New-road