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Page 37
... John Foster , Boston's first printer ( 1675 ) Courtesy : Massachusetts Historical Society's " John Foster " by S. A. Green . It seems perplexing to me that there were not more en- gravers available for these almanacs and their prin ...
... John Foster , Boston's first printer ( 1675 ) Courtesy : Massachusetts Historical Society's " John Foster " by S. A. Green . It seems perplexing to me that there were not more en- gravers available for these almanacs and their prin ...
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... John Par- tridge . The latter was a popular almanac editor of that time . However , Swift condidered him but a " quack as- trologer , " and even went so far , in that country where libel has always been avoided as the plague , as to pre ...
... John Par- tridge . The latter was a popular almanac editor of that time . However , Swift condidered him but a " quack as- trologer , " and even went so far , in that country where libel has always been avoided as the plague , as to pre ...
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... John Clapp , who kept a " house of entertainment about two miles with- out the City of New York at the place called the Bowry . " Opposite the June 24th date in that edition he gives notice that in commemoration of the feast of St. John ...
... John Clapp , who kept a " house of entertainment about two miles with- out the City of New York at the place called the Bowry . " Opposite the June 24th date in that edition he gives notice that in commemoration of the feast of St. John ...
Contents
A HOUSEHOLD NECESSITY | 29 |
BEN FRANKLIN AND POOR RICHARD | 68 |
WHAT DID THEY SAY? | 133 |
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