The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery - Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks
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page 44 of 124 (35%)
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The "Union Canal Lottery" was got up in 1814 to benefit Boston and "make it advance like New York." Here is a notice of the scheme from a Salem paper,-- _Union Canal Lottery._ First Class.--Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars. It rarely happens that the object of a Lottery is interesting to the whole community. To save the _Metropolis of New-England_ from declining in its commerce and consequence on the return of a general peace--to open its internal resources, to unite New-Hampshire & Vermont to Massachusetts, by bonds of mutual benefit, as permanent as the rivers and canals, by which their intercourse will be carried on--to make Boston advance like New York, supported by a populous, extensive and productive back country, are _considerations_ into which every reflecting man, every merchant, and every owner of real estate, must enter and must feel. It is therefore, confidently expected, that a Lottery, granted to complete the great undertaking of opening Inland Navigation, will receive peculiar support; and that _many_ who have not been in the habit of adventuring in Lotteries, will be willing and desirous of contributing to the success of this for the sake of _its object._ The Highest Prize will be paid in ninety days after the drawing shall be completed; and all other Prizes in sixty |
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