The olden time series
Subtitle: gleanings chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts, selected and arranged with brief comments
By: by  Henry M. Brooks.
Publisher: Ticknor
Published: 1886
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Lotteries; Spinning; Sunday; Advertising; Punishment; Curiosa; New England -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: No. 1. Curiosities of the old lottery. - no. 2. The days of the spinning-wheel in New England. - no. 3. New-England Sunday. - no. 4. Quaint and curious advertisements. - no. 5 Some strange and curious punishments. - no. 6. Literary curiosities.