Carl Robert Keyes
What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today? “The Sale of the CARGO of the Prize Ship Lady JULIANA, from Jamaica.” On August 2, 1776, Joseph Russell, an auctioneer, placed advertisements about an upcoming sale in both newspapers published in Boston, the...
Carl Robert Keyes
What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today? “The managers hope for public assistance in detecting the villain.” Reports of burglaries and robberies frequently appeared among the advertisements in early American newspapers, but this notice with a headline that...
Carl Robert Keyes
What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today? “AMERICAN MADE DRUMS.” “Buy American” and “Made in America” are familiar marketing appeals in modern America. They are also appeals with a lineage that goes back to the eighteenth century, emerging in advertisements in...
Carl Robert Keyes
What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today? “The Paper Mills are idle for want of Rags.” Calls for linen rags appeared regularly in colonial American newspapers, though some readers may have had the impression that the frequency increased after the battles at...
Carl Robert Keyes
What was advertised in a revolutionary American newspaper 250 years ago today? “My old sign of Dr. Lucas, which hangs opposite my Liberty Pole.” When James Thompson began operating “that noted and old accustomed tavern, known by the name of the Trap Tavern,” in New Castle County, Delaware, in the...