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
Brooks, Henry M. (Henry Mason)
Advertising; New England -- Social life and customs
THE Subscriber, being under the interdict of a Non-Intercourse
law, his horses and waggons hauled into dry dock, will no
longer carry freight between Salem and Boston; but,
"abandoning the ocean altogether," he respectfully offers his
services to his federal friends, with his saw and wooden
horse, and shall be obliged to them to call upon him when they
have any wood to cut. Orders will be received at his dwelling,
near the Court-house.
JOHN L. MATTHEWS.
--> Wanted to hire--two smart men. June 11 [1811].
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Specific for a "religious hydrophobia" in 1819.
_Cochranism Delineated,_
Or a description of, and specific for, a religious Hydrophobia,
which has spread & is still spreading in a number of towns in
the counties of York and Cumberland, District of Maine--price
12 1.2 cents--for sale at the Bookstore of
June 12. HENRY WHIPPLE.
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The following is printed in the "Massachusetts Mercury:"--
From the GEORGIA GAZETTE.
_Vice Consulship of Spain for the States of North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Georgia._
Messrs. Nicholas Johnston and Co.
_Gentlemen,_
His Excellency Lieut. Colonel Don Vincent Folch, Governor of
the Province of West Florida, in a letter, dated Panzacola,
1st August, has been pleased to communicate to me the
following:
"I have issued a proclamation, offering FOUR THOUSAND FIVE
HUNDRED DOLLARS to any person who will deliver here, or in
_Apalache_, the body of WILLIAM AUGUSTUS BOWLES, or else
produce sufficient proof of having killed him; which
information I will thank you to make public, in order that
some clever fellow, at the cheap rate of one gun shot, will
place in his pocket the said sum, which shall be paid, with
the greatest acknowledgment of gratitude, in good Spanish
dollars, without the least delay."
Therefore I request you to give this a conspicuous place in
your paper. It is, doubtless, a very interesting subject to
_Spain_, _America_ and the Indians, that they be rid of this
noted vagabond.
I remain, with respect,
Your obedient servant,
EMANUEL RENGILL.
_Savannah, 25th August, 1800._
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_Progress of Refinement in America._
=INDIANS' SCALPS.=
_Pittsburg, May 17, 1791._
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