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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
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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

by Brooks Henry M (Henry Mason)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CURIOSITIES OF THE OLD LOTTERY
A LIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY TICKNOR AND COMPANY

THE OLDEN-TIME SERIES.

16mo. Per vol., 50 cents.

There appears to be, from year to year, a growing popular taste for quaint and curious reminiscences of "Ye Olden Time," and to meet this, Mr. Henry M. Brooks has prepared a series of interesting handbooks. The materials have been gleaned chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, sources not easily accessible, and while not professing to be history, the volumes contain much material for history, so combined and presented as to be both amusing and instructive. The titles of some of the volumes indicate their scope and their promise of entertainment:—

    Curiosities of the Old Lottery.
    Days of the Spinning-Wheel.
    Some Strange and Curious Punishments.
    Quaint and Curious Advertisements.
    Literary Curiosities.
    New-England Sunday, etc.

"It has been the good fortune of the writer to be allowed a peep at the manuscript for this series and he can assure the lovers of the historical and the quaint in literature that something both valuable and pleasant is in store for them. In the specialties treated of in these books Mr. Brooks has been for many years a careful collector and student, and it is gratifying to learn that the material is to be committed to book form."—Salem Gazette.

For sale by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, upon receipt of price. Catalogues of our books mailed free.

TICKNOR & CO., Boston.

THE OLDEN TIME SERIES

CURIOSITIES OF THE OLD LOTTERY

"There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
 Would men observingly distil it out."

Shakspeare, King Henry V.

"The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
 And these are of them."

Shakspeare, Macbeth.

"How widely its agencies vary,—
 To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless."

Thomas Hood.

THE OLDEN TIME SERIES

GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON
AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS
SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS
BY

HENRY M. BROOKS

Curiosities of the Old Lottery

"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

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 Arnold, Welcome 50 Atkins, William 10 Austin, Benjamin 14 Austin, Benjamin, Jr. 53 Barlow, Joel 56, 57 Barton, William 35 Beeman, D. 47 Beers, Elias 33 Beers, Nathan 33 Bemis, Mr. 25 Blake, William P. 22 Blodgett, Benjamin 42
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align="left">Bonaparte 62, 63 Bridge & Renouf 39, 54 Bridge, Mr. 36 Brooks, Peter C. 70 Brown, John 50 Bryant, William 61 Burr, Aaron 62, 63 Cabot, Andrew 59 Cabot, George 59 Carlton, W. 53 Carter, Ephraim 16 Clark, Mary Ann 62, 63 Colman, George 44 Connor, Benjamin 38 Cooper, Samuel 53 Cushing & Appleton 17, 42, 44, 46, 61, 63 Cushing & Carlton 38 Cushing, Caleb 10 Cushing, Thomas 14 Cushing, Thomas C. 8 Dabney, John 8, 53 Daggett, Henry 33 Dana & Fenno 65 Dutch, John 51 Edes & Gill 15 Ellsler, Fanny 8 Esty, Edward 35 Everett, Edward 70 Farnham, Daniel 10 Fisk, General
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@17970@[email protected]#Page_28" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">28 Kidder, W. & T. 30 King George III. 62, 63 King James I. 72 Kneeland, John 36, 53 Larkin, E. & S. 47 Larkin, Ebenezer 22 Leach & Fosdick 25 Lewis, Ezekiel 14 Luther, Martin 35 Lyon, William 33 Macomber, Ebenezer 22 Madison, James 62, 63 Martin, Luther 42 Mason, John 50 McIntosh, William 33 Minot, George R. 53 Napoleon 63 Nauche, Dr. 43 Newell, Timothy 12 Payson, E.H. 8, 65 Pickering, Timothy 62, 63 Phillips, Margaret 25 Randal, Stephen 22 Russell, Benjamin 53 Russell, John 8, 16, 17, 22, 23 Russell, William 50 Sampson, Ezra 59 Savage, Samuel Phillips 14 Scollay, John 14
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Sewall, Samuel 14 Sharplys, Thomas 72 Sheldon, Pardon 64 Sigourney, Andrew 41 Simpson & Caldwell 39 Smith, Robert 63 Sprague, Joseph 19 Stone, E.M. 59 Storer & Son, Ebenezer 12 Thorndike, Israel 59 Thurber, Samuel, Jr. 22, 51 Tracy, Patrick 10 Turpin, Benjamin 22 Warren, Henry 53 Washington, George 31, 59, 62, 63 Weld, Benjamin 41 Whipple, Henry 8, 39, 45 Whipple, John 51 Williams, George 19

LOTTERIES MENTIONED.

Page Amoskeag 16, 17 Amoskeag Canal 68 Baltimore Hospital 42 Bible Supply 61, 62 Bunker Hill Monument 7 Charlestown 68 Cologne Cathedral 72 Congregational Churches 7 Connecticut Manufactory 32, 33
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Continental Congress 18 Dartmouth College 36, 37, 68 Eastern Stage Road 65 English Colonies in Virginia 72 Episcopal Churches 7 Faneuil Hall 7, 13, 14, 15 Gloucester Road 68 Harvard College 7, 23, 38, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 51, 52, 53, 57, 64, 70 Hatfield Bridge 17, 23, 68 Kennebec 68 Kennebec Bridge 28 Land Bank 15, 68 Leicester Academy, Lancaster 16 Marblehead 42 Massachusetts State 7, 20, 25, 29, 36, 41, 42, 58, 59, 64
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Matrimonial 66, 67, 68 Milton Paper Mill 15 Newport Congregational Church 19 New York 41 New York Literature 65 North and South Rivers, Salem 19 North Carolina 64 Pavement on Boston Neck 68 Philanthropic 68 Plymouth Beach 44, 54, 55, 61, 68 Providence Episcopal Church 47 Providence Street 20, 21, 22 Rhode Island 64 Rhode Island College 7, 49, 50, 51 Rhode Island Lottery for Advancement of Religion 34 River Parker Bridge 7, 9, 10, 11 South Hadley Canal 48, 68 Stonington Point Meeting-House 65, 66 Sudbury 61, 68 Taunton Great River 12 Union Canal 31, 40, 41 Washington Monument 39 Williamstown Free School
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