o be had at the above Place._

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_Positively the LAST NIGHT._
=To-Morrow, being Friday,=
_August 17, 1769._
=Mr. Douglass,=
_Will deliver the_
_LECTURE_
ON
=HEADS,=
_Coats of Arms, Wigs, Ladies-head
Dresses,_ &c, &c, &c, &c.
After which, will be pronounced
SOME SELECT PIECES
From
THE MOST CELEBRATED
ENGLISH POETS.
*** Tickets for Admission, to be had of _Green_ and
_Russell_, and at the _Bunch of Grapes_ in King-Street.
_At_ HALF-a-DOLLAR each.
To begin exactly at 8 o'clock.

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Thus we see that Salem was early in the field of literature and science.
Its citizens must take pride in remembering such great names as
Nathaniel Bowditch, William H. Prescott, Joseph Story, Timothy
Pickering, John Pickering, Benjamin Peirce, William W. Story, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, and many others.

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When we see the great waste of paper in these days,--handbills,
circulars, and newspapers, which are blowing about the streets at
times,--we sometimes wonder how it was in 1767, on October 19, when the
following notice appeared in the "Boston Gazette."

--> _THIS is to give Notice, That on_ TUESDAY _the 27th
Instant, the Bell-Cart will go thro'_ Boston, _to collect
Linnen Rags for_ Milton _Paper-Mill; as the highest Price
will be given, all House-keepers and others are desired to
have them in Readiness.--And, as it appears that all Sorts
of Paper now to be imported, will come at a much higher
Price than usual--if People will but save their Rags, it
will not only be greatly interesting to the Public that the
aforesaid Mill should have a full Supply, but will also
encourage the manufacturing of all such different Sorts of
Paper as are generally used among us, and a little to spare
the neighbouring Governments._

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Here are two notices,--the first, nearly eight years before the battle
of Lexington, sounds warlike; the second is a call to promote greater
economy on the part of the inhabitants.

_Messieurs_ EDES & GILL,

_Please