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What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “The French academy.” Francis Daymon, “Master of the FRENCH, LATIN,” placed newspaper advertisements to offer his services as a tutor to the “ladies and gentlemen” of...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Those who have taken subscriptions of others, [send] their lists … to the Publisher.” In the course of just a few days late in the summer of 1771, readers in New England,...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “The following BOOKS, many of them late publications.” During the week of August 15, 1771, William Bradford and Thomas Bradford had more content than would fit in the four...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “ROLLING SCREENS for Cleaning Wheat or Flax-seed.” Christian Fiss devoted half of the space in his advertisement in the July 18, 1771, edition of the Pennsylvania Journal...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “At the London Book-Store and Unicorn and Mortar.” Like many booksellers, John Sparhawk also sold patent medicines. He did not, however, do so as a side venture but instead...
Who was the subject of an advertisement in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “RUN-AWAY … a Mulatto Woman Slave, named VIOLET.” On July 4, 1771, Philip Kearney told the story of Violet, an enslaved woman who liberated herself, though...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “ADVERTISEMENTS of a moderate Length (accompanied with the Pay) are inserted in this Paper three Weeks for Four Shillings Lawful Money.” Today marks two thousand days of production...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “Frugality and Industry make Mankind rich, free, and happy.” Politics certainly shaped accounts of current events that ran in colonial newspapers during the era of the imperial...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “A POEM. By Doctor GOLDSMITH, author of THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD and THE TRAVELLER.” In the spring of 1771, William Bradford and Thomas Bradford, printers in Philadelphia,...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “Spencer has already given convincing proofs of his abilities.” In the spring of 1771, Brent Spencer, a “Coach & Coach Harness MAKER,” opened a new...
What do newspaper advertisements published 250 years ago today tell us about the era of the American Revolution? “LIBERTY. A POEM.” “RUN-AWAY … a Negro Boy named SAY.” Like every other newspaper printer in colonial...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “HART and PATTERSON … opened a VENDUE-STORE.” Unlike the vast majority of eighteenth-century newspaper advertisements composed primarily of text, a visual image...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “A DISCOURSE, Occasioned by the DEATH of the Revd. GEORGE WHITEFIELD.” The death of George Whitefield in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on September 30, 1770, was one of...
Who was the subject of advertisements in colonial American newspapers 250 years ago today? “Will be SOLD, by PUBLIC VENDUE … in Baltimore Town, Maryland.” On January 24, 1771, Jacob Giles and W. Young placed an advertisement about an...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Each articles will be put up singly, and in the order of the inventory annexed.” Both the size and format of Richard Tidmarsh’s advertisement on the final page...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “D.K’s performance is scandalous and preposterous.” Lewis Fay’s advertisement in the Pennsylvania Journal caused some controversy. For several...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “FOR NEWRY, The SHIP SALLY, WILLIAM KEITH, Master.” Readers of the Pennsylvania Chronicle, and, especially, the Pennsylvania Gazette and the Pennsylvania Journal did...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “LIBERTY.” “To be sold … A Healthy active young NEGRO MAN.” Liberty and enslavement were intertwined in the 1770s, a paradox that defines the founding...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Experience has taught him to cut hair according to art.” Lewis Fay, a “Periwig Maker and Hair Dresser,” offered his services to the residents of Philadelphia,...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “His house is extremely well calculated for the accommodation of GRAND and SHERIFF’S JURIES.” Josiah F. Davenport operated an inn and tavern, the Bunch of...
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