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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College, which is now drawing--10,000 Dollars highest prize.
A complete list of all the Drawing may be seen days and evenings, gratis. Prize Tickets and Detroit Bank Bills taken in payment; such as are guaranteed are taken at par. and those of another kind at a discount. June 3. (5W) * * * * * The highest prize in the Providence _Episcopal Church_ Lottery was $8,000, and the drawing was to begin on Sept. 29, 1800. Tickets were sold in Boston at E. & S. Larkin's, 47 Cornhill. Gilbert & Dean, 56 State Street, Boston, make the following exhibit of the Golden Shower in 1803. _It is impossible to tell on whom the_ GOLDEN SHOWER _will fall!_ [Illustration] YE that have the least relish to obtain 8000 dollars for a trifling sum, be "_up and doing!_" The third class of Hadley Lottery, will commence drawing the 15th of June. _Remark._--The object of this Lottery is of great public utility--that of improving SOUTH HADLEY CANAL, in order to make it permanent and beneficial to the public--and the |
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