_Columbian Centinel._
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THE subscriber wishes to notify his old honourable customers,
who practise stealing and destroying his fruit every year,
that his Water Mellons are now almost ripe; and if they do not
as usual destroy the fruit and vines immediately, they will
get entirely ripe; and then some body or other will be the
better for them, which will be a grievous mortification to
those manly gentlemen.
EZRA GRISWOLD.
Simsbury, August 4, 1794.
_Connecticut Courant._
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Removal.
SAMUEL MYLOD informs his friends and the public that he has
removed from Danvers to the building belonging to Mrs. _Martha
Procter_, near Buffum's corner, Salem, where he colours all
kinds of wearing apparel. Silks cleansed from spots or injury
from sea. N.B. Pickles that will keep the longest voyage, for
Sale. Oct. 11.
_Salem Gazette, 1805._
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In "old times" even publishers were sometimes short of money, and ready to
barter with their subscribers. So celebrated a character as Isaiah Thomas,
of the "Worcester Spy," was occasionally obliged to give "hints" to his
"Delinquent Customers and Postriders." The latter were distributers of
papers to country customers.
_To Delinquent Customers._
-->_Serious Times--or the_ PRINTER _without_ Money--_or a
Final Hint to_ Delinquent Customers _and_ Postriders!<--
THE Subscriber has frequently given _Hints_ to his _Delinquent
Customers_ and _Postriders_, that he was in want of Cash and
has repeatedly invited all indebted to him to come forward and
make an immediate settlement, without being put to any _extra
cost_--he now, for the last time, informs all that are
indebted to him for _Newspapers_, _Advertisements_, _&c. &c._
that an immediate settlement must be made, and all who
disregard this notice, may depend upon having their Notes and
Accounts put into the hands of an Attorney.
To accommodate those who cannot pay money, the following
articles will be received until the FIRST of JANUARY, 1803,
viz. _Corn_, _Rye_, _Wheat_, _Oats_, and _Wood_--Those who
have not the above articles, and who cannot make it convenient
to pay the money at present, their NOTES will be received,
payable in _Three Months_, provided they are given previous to
the _Second Wednesday_ in _March_ next.
ISAIAH THOMAS, Jun.
_Worcester_, November 17, 1802.
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_To be SOLD_,
_And entered upon next April,_
THE House and Land now occupied by the subscriber, pleasently
situated at a very public corner, in the main street, at the
West part of the town.----After serving the public faithfully,
for several years, as a private soldier in the army, and
suffering most intolerable hardships, I am now, on account of
my country's unfaithfulness, in not paying what they owe me,
obliged to sell the house which belonged to my ancestors, in
order to pay my debts, and to retire to an obscure hut at some
distance from the town.