An article on the Red-Headed League was evidence in the trial of Barok van Zieks for the murder of Tobias Gregson. It was an advertisement centering around the two suspicious members of the League, Fabien de Rousseau and Peppino de Rossi. After an American member named Ezekiah Hopkins passed away, a vacancy in the league opened. Hopkins was from the real life Pennsylvanian county of Lebanon.
Other contents from the article include:
- The London public health report showing that cases of consumption, more commonly reffered to as tuberculosis, dropped compared to the previous year. The article also takes note of a large drop in smallpox, thanks to vaccinations. However, the article also warns about another cholera epidemic, and strongly advises readers to only drink water that has been boiled. This is due to cholera being caused by drinking contaminated water.
- A retrospective of Britain's successes, which is continued from the unseen first page of the newspaper. The article points to Britain's contributions to sciences, with Issac Newton being made as an example. It also notes the shifting field of economic thought. Despite Adam Smith's famed 1776 novel 'The Wealth of Nations', the Laissez-faire economic doctrine has only begun to take shape in the last few decades.
- St Bartholomew's Hospital has conducted research that has thoroughly disproven the now abandoned Miasma theory of disease. This research uncovered evidence that is more consistant with John Snow's Germ Theory of disease, which is the currently accepted theory in modern times.
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