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QUAINT AND CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS

_ADVERTISEMENTS._

_Advertisements are sometimes very amusing. They give insights into the
manners of the times no less interesting than authentic. Suppose the
ancients had possessed a press, and that a volume of a Roman_ Post _or_
Chronicle _had been dug up at Herculaneum, with what curiosity should we
not contemplate the millinery of the Roman ladies, or, "Wanted, a
Gladiator to fight the last new lion;" or, "Next Ides of November will be
published the new poem of Quintus Horatius Flaccus"!_--LEIGH HUNT.

THE OLDEN TIME SERIES.

GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS

SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS

BY

HENRY M. BROOKS

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Quaint and Curious Advertisements

"Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is
no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by
proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."--EMERSON

[Illustration: Crest]

BOSTON

TICKNOR AND COMPANY

1886

_Copyright, 1886,_

BY TICKNOR AND COMPANY.

_All rights reserved._

University Press:

JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

INDEX OF NAMES.

PAGE

ABRAHAM, NATHANIEL 30
Adams, John 73
Allen, Jolley 40
Allen, Thomas 27
Amberson, William 105
Amory, John & Thomas, & Co. 126
Amory, Jonathan & John 29
Andrews, William, jr. 140
Appleton, John 46
Aspinwalle, G. & T. 91

BAILS, JAMES 137
Baker, John 21
Baker, Mr. 8
Ball, John 12
Barclay, Andrew 38
Barnard, Thomas, D.D. 45, 48
Barnum, P.T. 120
Bartlett, Keziah 136, 137
Bartlett, W.P. 59
Bathrick, Samuel 141
Bell, Robert 54
Belcher & Armstrong 91
Belknap, Jeremy, D.D. 44
Bernard, Governor Francis 14, 15
Billings, Mary