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

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 78 pages of information about The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1.

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

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 78 pages of information about The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1.
Dolls.                  Dolls.
1 Prize of                 1000      is              1000
1                           300                       300
1                           200                       200
4                           100      are              400
10                           50                       500
20                           30                       600
40                           20                       800
50                           10                       500
100                           6                       600
1482                          3                      4446
——­                                                 ——­
1709 Prizes,                                         9346
3631 Blanks,                                         1334
——­                                                 ——­
5340 Tickets, at 2 Dolls. each, is                  10680

To commence drawing the 1st June next.

TICKETS may be had by applying to the subscribers; and the Prizes paid on demand.  Prizes not demanded within six months after the drawing, will be considered as generously given for the finishing the work.
EBENEZER MACOMBER, }
SAMUEL THURBER, jun. } Managers. 
STEPHEN RANDAL, }
BENJ.  TURPIN, }

—­> TICKETS in the above Lottery, may be had of EBEN.  LARKIN,
of WM. P. BLAKE, and at the Post-Office, Boston,
Feb. 21, 1795.

* * * * *

Those who remember the late Colonel John Russell, at one time president of the Bank of General Interest in Salem, and a kindly, benevolent “gentleman of the old school,” will read with interest his advertisement of “A New Dispensary,” from the “Salem Gazette,” March 24, 1807.

A New Dispensary!

NUMEROUS are the instances that can be cited of a less, a much less, sum than Twenty Thousand Dollars having restored to their pristine vigor precarious circumstances, and of making the poor become rich! Let stubborn prejudices be laid aside, and an immediate resort made to that GRAND ANTIPOVERTY CORRECTIVE, CASH, which is now proffered as a sovereign remedy for all the complaints that poverty is heir to:—­in asserting the superior efficacy of this preventive of the evils attendant on a state of poverty, it is not intended to trespass on truth—­let it be fairly tried, when the ‘majesty of its own worth’ will be manifest.  The door is now open for the reception of such as would like to try the experiment:—­There is Hatfield Bridge Lottery, which commences drawing the 15th of next month; this affords a potion of EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS; if, after a fair trial here, the desired effect is not produced, then there is the Harvard College Lottery, which commences in May, which has the highly balsamic cordial of TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, which will produce the most wonderful effects, by giving a solid tone to the regions of the pocket, and by enriching and invigorating the whole system, as can be satisfactorily tested:—­Twenty Thousand Dollars would

“Cheer the heart, and make the spirits flow!”

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