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The Olden Time Series, Vol. 4: Quaint and Curious Advertisements: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, MassachusettsBrooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)

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The Olden Time Series, Vol. 4: Quaint and Curious Advertisements: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

Name: The Olden Time Series, Vol. 4: Quaint and Curious Advertisements: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
Author: Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)

Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)

Advertising; New England -- Social life and customs

THIS is to give notice that the Widow _Hendry_, having had her
    Workshop destroyed in the late Fire in Paddy's Alley, carries
    on the Farrier's Business on Scarlet's Wharf, at the North
    End, where she hopes her Customers will continue their Favors
    to her, in her deplorable Circumstances, having a very
    chargeable Family, and met with very heavy Losses by the said
    Fire.

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After the same fire Jonathan Payson missed a pair of "Brass Doggs"
(andirons), etc.

    Sundry Things missing after the late Fire, _viz._ One Pair of
    Brass Doggs, cast solid, very heavy and large; 22 yards of
    Hamburgh Sheeting; one Bell metal Skillet, and one Silver
    Spoon--The Persons that took them in not knowing who they may
    belong to, I take this Method to inform them that they belong
    to the Subscriber.

                                                JONATHAN PAYSON.

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Lead sashes in use in 1767.

                            TO BE SOLD,

    A Number of Windows, set in Lead. Inquire of the Printers.

          _BOSTON_, Printed by _Edes_ and _Gill_, 1767.

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In July, 1761, among the rough element, there seems to have been a "boom"
in breaking windows and throwing stones. This state of things reached such
a pitch that the Governor was forced to issue a Proclamation offering a
reward for the detection of the offenders.

                         BY HIS EXCELLENCY

                       FRANCIS BERNARD, Esq;

    Captain-General and Governor in Chief, in and over His
    Majesty's Province of the _Massachusetts Bay_, in
    _New-England_, and Vice-Admiral of the same.

                         A PROCLAMATION.

    _WHEREAS certain Persons, who remain hitherto undiscovered,
    have of late committed great Disorders in the Night-Time,
    within several Towns in this Province, and particularly have
    broke the Windows of some Meeting Houses, and of the
    Dwelling-Houses of several Persons, by flinging thereinto
    great Stones and Bricks, thereby indangering the Lives of the
    Inhabitants, as well as injuring their Houses, against the
    Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, and in Contempt of his
    Laws:_

    I HAVE therefore thought fit, with the Advice of His Majesty's
    Council, to issue this Proclamation, requiring all Justices of
    the Peace, Sheriffs, Constables, and all other Officers whom
    it may concern, and also recommending it to all other His
    Majesty's good Subjects within this Province, to use their
    utmost Endeavours for discovering and bringing to Justice all
    Persons concerned in such disorderly and riotous Practices.

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The Olden Time Series, Vol. 4: Quaint and Curious Advertisements: Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

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