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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
    The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
    The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
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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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    The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

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      The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1 - Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities

      of the Old Lottery, by Henry M. Brooks

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      Title: The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery

      Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

      Author: Henry M. Brooks

      Release Date: March 12, 2006 [EBook #17970]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE OLDEN TIME SERIES, VOL. ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Christine D. and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      CURIOSITIES OF THE OLD LOTTERY

      A LIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY TICKNOR AND COMPANY

      THE OLDEN-TIME SERIES.

      16mo. Per vol., 50 cents.

      There appears to be, from year to year, a growing popular taste for quaint and curious reminiscences of Ye Olden Time, and to meet this, Mr. Henry M. Brooks has prepared a series of interesting handbooks. The materials have been gleaned chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, sources not easily accessible, and while not professing to be history, the volumes contain much material for history, so combined and presented as to be both amusing and instructive. The titles of some of the volumes indicate their scope and their promise of entertainment:—

          Curiosities of the Old Lottery.

          Days of the Spinning-Wheel.

          Some Strange and Curious Punishments.

          Quaint and Curious Advertisements.

          Literary Curiosities.

          New-England Sunday, etc.

      It has been the good fortune of the writer to be allowed a peep at the manuscript for this series and he can assure the lovers of the historical and the quaint in literature that something both valuable and pleasant is in store for them. In the specialties treated of in these books Mr. Brooks has been for many years a careful collector and student, and it is gratifying to learn that the material is to be committed to book form.—Salem Gazette.

      For sale by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, upon receipt of price. Catalogues of our books mailed free.

      TICKNOR & CO., Boston.

      THE OLDEN TIME SERIES

      CURIOSITIES OF THE OLD LOTTERY

      "There is some soul of goodness in things evil,

      Would men observingly distil it out."

      Shakspeare, King Henry V.

      "The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,

      And these are of them."

      Shakspeare, Macbeth.

      "How widely its agencies vary,—

      To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless."

      Thomas Hood.

      THE OLDEN TIME SERIES

      GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON

      AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS

      SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS

      BY

      HENRY M. BROOKS

      Curiosities of the Old Lottery

      Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.—Emerson

      BOSTON

      TICKNOR AND COMPANY

      1886

      Copyright, 1886,

      By Ticknor and Company.

      All rights reserved.

      University Press:

      John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

      INDEX OF NAMES.

      LOTTERIES MENTIONED.

      INTRODUCTION.

      While this work does not pretend to be a history, it will yet present many historical facts. Its object is to show from old newspapers, which are not accessible to all, such items and comments upon a

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