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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Proprietors, in this arduous undertaking, have to cut through
an entire mass of rocks for _three_ miles! Laudable and praise-worthy perseverance! Tickets for sale by GILBERT & DEAN, MAGAZINE and LOTTERY OFFICE, No. 56, _State-Street,_ where a correct list of all the prizes and blanks will be exhibited, during the drawing. _May 25, 1803._ * * * * * In the "Salem Gazette" will be found the advertisements of two of the College Lotteries. Rhode Island College is now Brown University. * * * * * _R. Island College Lottery._ THE Corporation of the College, wishing to discharge in the best manner the trusts reposed in them for the education of youth, and finding their funds inadequate to this purpose, have obtained of the General Assembly of the state of _Rhode-Island_ and _Providence Plantations_ the grant of a Lottery. As the sole object of this is the public good, it is hoped that the exertions of the Corporation will meet the wishes and secure the co-operation of all the friends of science and virtue. The College was founded entirely by the generosity of individuals. Though it has received no patronage from the legislative body, yet through the |
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