The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, MassachusettsBrooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)
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The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)
Lotteries; New England -- Social life and customs
Prize Tickets and Detroit Bank Bills taken in payment; such
as are guaranteed are taken at par. and those of another kind
at a discount.
June 3. (5W)
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The highest prize in the Providence _Episcopal Church_ Lottery was
$8,000, and the drawing was to begin on Sept. 29, 1800. Tickets were
sold in Boston at E. & S. Larkin's, 47 Cornhill. Gilbert & Dean, 56
State Street, Boston, make the following exhibit of the Golden Shower in
1803.
_It is impossible to tell on whom the_ GOLDEN SHOWER _will
fall!_
[Illustration]
YE that have the least relish to obtain 8000 dollars for a
trifling sum, be "_up and doing!_" The third class of Hadley
Lottery, will commence drawing the 15th of June.
_Remark._--The object of this Lottery is of great public
utility--that of improving SOUTH HADLEY CANAL, in order to
make it permanent and beneficial to the public--and the
Proprietors, in this arduous undertaking, have to cut through
an entire mass of rocks for _three_ miles! Laudable and
praise-worthy perseverance!
Tickets for sale by GILBERT & DEAN, MAGAZINE and LOTTERY
OFFICE, No. 56, _State-Street,_ where a correct list of all
the prizes and blanks will be exhibited, during the drawing.
_May 25, 1803._
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In the "Salem Gazette" will be found the advertisements of two of the
College Lotteries. Rhode Island College is now Brown University.
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_R. Island College Lottery._
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