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To be Sold Cheap!--a Yarmouth BLOATER, none the worse for
unsuccessful exposure for sale on the stalls of Bewdley and
Dudley. For terms of Sale apply to The Priory!
N.B.--The above Bloater is well cured!
1840-1. The bad trade at this time, and the disturbed state of the
working classes, arising in a great measure from the poisoned seeds
of anarchy and distrust which was then sown broadcast by the Chartist
leaders amongst the idle, ignorant, and dissolute, made it incumbent
upon the public authorities in Dudley to erect a safeguard against any
sudden surprise to life and property; thus it was that a day and night
patrol of the roads and streets was established to maintain the peace
and keep order in the town, and the following respectable townsmen
formed a section of our guardian angels--