Identifier: archaeologiaame06amer (find matches)
Title: Archaeologia americana : transactions and collections of the American Antiquarian Society
Year: 1820 (1820s)
Authors: American Antiquarian Society
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Publisher: Worcester : The Society
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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inters used lines of metal rules;others lines of flowers irregularly placed. I have seen insome New York papers, great primer flowers between ad-vertisements. At length, it became customary to set offadvertisements, and from using types not larger than thosewith which the news were printed, types of the size of Frenchcanon have often been used for names, especially of thosewho advertised English goods. In the troublesome times, occasioned by the stamp actin 1765, some of the more opulent and cautious printers,when the act was to take place, put their papers in mourn-ing, and, for a few weeks, omitted to publish them ; othersnot so timid, but doubtful of the consequence of publish-ing newspapers without stamps, omitted the titles, or al-tered them, as an evasion; for instance the PennsylvaniaGazette, and some other papers, were headed RemarkableOccurrences, &c.—other printers, particularly those inBoston, continued their papers without any alteration intitle or imprint. IHMAIf «
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