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Title: The Olden Time Series, Vol. 3: New-England Sunday Gleanings Chiefly From Old Newspapers Of Boston And Salem, Massachusetts
Author: Henry M. Brooks
Release Date: January 9, 2006 [EBook #17483]
Language: English
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_THE OLDEN-TIME SERIES._
16mo. Per vol., 50 cents.
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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.
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"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.
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_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
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NEW ENGLAND SUNDAY
"_Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week._"--LONGFELLOW.
"_What greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship? Then all things go to decay._"--EMERSON.
"_There are some moody fellows, not a few, Who, turn'd by Nature with a gloomy bias, Renounce black devils to adopt the blue, And think when they are dismal they are pious._" HOOD.
"_Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime 'Tis angel's music._" HERBERT.

THE OLDEN TIME SERIES.
GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS
SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS
BY
HENRY M. BROOKS
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New-England Sunday
"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
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BOSTON
TICKNOR AND COMPANY
1886

_Copyright, 1886,_
BY TICKNOR AND COMPANY.
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_All rights reserved._
=University Press:=
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

INDEX OF NAMES.
PAGE
AGASSIZ, PROFESSOR L. 15 Andrew, Charles A. 43 Atkinson, Edward 15
BARNARD, THOMAS, D.D. 21 Beecher, Rev. H.W. 6 Bentley, William, D.D. 10, 11 Blanchard, Benjamin 20, 21 Bolles, Lucius, D.D. 21 Bonaparte, Napoleon 20 Brisset, Citizen 49 Burns, Robert 21
CABOT, JOS. S. 20 Chase, Philip 46 Churchill, Mr. 35 Cleveland, George 43, 46, 48 Coggin, Jacob 32 Crowninshield, John 43 Culver, Mr. 33
EMERSON, R.W. 58 Endicott, Governor John 33 Endicott, Samuel 20
FELT, REV. JOS. B. 8, 9, 18 Freeman, Nehemiah 22 Frothingham, Nathaniel 46, 48
GLOVER, MR. 34, 35 Guppy, Reuben 18
HODGES, CAPTAIN BENJAMIN 11 Hopkins, Daniel, D.D. 9, 21 Hopps, John Page 62
INGERSON, NATHANIEL 40
JACOBS, JOHN 32 Jefferson, Thomas 13 Johnson, Richard M. 47, 49, 50
KING CHARLES I. 37 King George II. 38 King George III. 38 King James I. 37 Kittredge, Dr. Benjamin 43, 46
LANE, DAVID 32 Le Favre, Mr. 10 Le Sage 40 Lord, William 18
MCCLURE, MR. 34, 36 Mitchell, Judge 34, 36
NEAL, DAVID A. 43
OSGOOD, BENJAMIN 32
PAINE, THOMAS 49, 56 Parker, Mr. 10 Peele, Willard 46, 48 Peters, Hugh 9 Phillips, Stephen C. 43, 46 Pickman, Dudley L. 46, 48 Pingree, David 43 Preston, Mr. 65 Prince, Rev. John, LL.D. 21 Putnam, Perley 43, 46, 48
SALTONSTALL, LEVERETT 43 Smith, Jonathan 15 Smith, Susan 15 Spurgeon, Rev, C.H. 6 Stearns, Charles 21 Story, Franklin H. 43 Swan, Mr. 10
TALMAGE, REV. DR. 6 Treadwell, John W. 43 Trumbull, Jonathan 15 Tucker, Gideon 46, 48
VOSE, MR. 34
W----, REV. MR. 41 Washington, George 1 Waters, Joseph G. 43 Waters, Stanley 10 West, Nathaniel, Jr. 43 White, Stephen 46 Whiting, Samuel 32 Wright, Fanny 56

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NEW-ENGLAND SUNDAY.
SEEING in an old paper that General Washington was stopped by a "tythingman" in Connecticut in