Ancient ads!

[amadoj0nes.livejournal.com]

Four ads, from the same newspaper as the clipping below (Pennsylvania Gazette, 2/27/1749)... This is more the "commercial" ads section...listed earlier in the paper than the lost and found, just like they are today. :)


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Just imported and to be sold by JOHN MOORE, At his store, on Market-street wharf; Scotch snuff, best grass scythes, seal-skin housings, and skins, pickled salmon, cod-sounds (?), and pickled oysters, rum, and mackerel, two riding chairs, bibles, primmers, and spelling books, and Irish spinning wheels; with a quantity of coarse white thread, ans several other things at reasonable rates.

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All persons indebted to the estate of William Murrell, late of Mount-Holley, in the couny of Burlington, deceased, are desired to come and pay their respective debts; and those that have any demands against said estate, are desired to bring in their accounts, that they may be settled by me. Tbc 6W. Henry Paxson, Executor.

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To be sold, a likely Negroe boy, this country born, has had the small-pox and measles, and is about eleven years old. Enquire at the Post-office.

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Just imported in the brigt. George, James Kennedy master, from Liverpoole, and to be sold by Anthony Stocker, at his store, under the dwelling house of Mr. John Sober, in Water-street, a choice variety of Manchester goods; and fine salt. N. B. Also to be sold by said Stocker, choice Barbados rum.

Comments

[rubberbondage.livejournal.com]

why was "f" used for "s" ?

[gullinbursti.livejournal.com]

It's actually not an "f", it's a "long s" -- you can see that the crossbar doesn't go all the way through. It has a long history in printing, but I'm not sure why they used it for ALL the esses in colonial times. In many places and times it was just used in certain letter combinations, like "st" and "ss".

I still like to imagine all those colonists walking around talking like Sylvester the Cat, though.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

If you look at the word "grass" (and others) you'll see that they didn't use it for the last letter of a word.

I do believe I'm going to be hearing Sylvester in my mind's ear when I look at such typography, at least for a while.

Wikipedia is cool!

[albear.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

[neverendeavor.livejournal.com]

'Cod sounds' are air bladders from cod, used for cooking before we knew there were better things to eat.

[amadoj0nes.livejournal.com]

Heh, awesome.


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[seasaidh78.livejournal.com]

love them!
should you come across ads that talk about wives who "eloped" could you post/send them my way or let me know the date you found them? I did my thesis on SC ones, and would love to see some northern ones too. they usually began with "Whereas, NAME, hath eloped..."
no prob if not.
thanks!

[amadoj0nes.livejournal.com]

I havent seen any in particular, but if I do, i'll post them here. :)

[seasaidh78.livejournal.com]

great! thank you!

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

Why do you put eloped (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elopement) in quotes?

[amadoj0nes.livejournal.com]

"Does people's "inability" to "properly" use quotation marks" bother you?

[seasaidh78.livejournal.com]

i probably did not use quotes correctly, so forgive me. it was for emphasis.
however, people associate eloping with running to get married, not running away from a marriage, just like wiki states. these women were leaving marriages. i just find it very interesting that the same word has those meanings in regard to marriage.