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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 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._

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In the "Salem Gazette" will be found the advertisements of two of the
College Lotteries. Rhode Island College is now Brown University.

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_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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