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UMBRELLA Manufacturer; takes this early opportunity to inform
his friends and the Public in general, that he has Removed
from the North-Square, to
_No. 55, Marlborough-Street,_
at the sign of the UMBRELLA----where may be had any quantity,
quality, or sized UMBRELLAS, at the shortest notice, made of
better materials, cheaper, and more durable than can be
imported.
_Also,_
Turned Work in Ivory, hard Woods, and Metals, executed in the
best stile of workmanship.
--> _Cash given for_ Ivory, Sea-horse, _and_ Sea-cows TEETH.
(8w) March 14 [1798].
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The following--supposed to be--attempt at wit appeared in the
"Massachusetts Centinel" in 1789.
_ADVERTISEMENTS EXTRA._
IMPORTED in the last vessels from Europe, A treatise on
ogling, simpering, flirting, gigling, painting, patching,
perfuming, &c. very useful to every _Lady_--and much in
demand. Also, The Art of burning dimples in ladies' cheeks and
chins--of repairing female tongues that wear with using--of
setting eyes _fashionably_ in their sockets--of giving the
face a _beautiful pale_, deathlike aspect--and of acquiring
the elegant hysterick and other fits.
_TO BE SOLD_--Many elegant and beautiful copies of a most
scarce and valuable work, called "_The Virtue of the Times_."
Inquire any where.
_LOST_--Through carelessness, _thirty good years of life_--of
a gentleman--ALSO, _forty-two years of a lady_--the latter,
from a desire to appear _beautifully_ slim. Whoever can inform
the losers how they can be redeemed, shall be handsomely
rewarded.
_EXTRA--BUT SERIOUS._
WANTED--much _wanted_--several _small sums of money_--say,
from 4/6. to Ten Dollars--for which _obligations_, which have
frequently been _offered_, will be _given_. Inquire of the
_Printer_.
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A Boston paper of 1789 prints the following unique production, copied from
a late London paper. It was probably designed as a "take-off" to some of
the humbugs of the day.