Early Day Ads (page 3)

Another ad on these pages offers the “safest and cheapest” Stage Coach from Philadelphia to New York. And another promises if you find a Stray Red Cow, “you will be suitably rewarded.”

New garden seeds “of the best quality” are for sale in Cow-Lane at the head of Federal Street in Boston. And nearby Harvard College is conducting a lottery selling twenty-five thousand tickets at five dollars each.

On the auction block we hear of a full-blooded stallion standing 15 hands high, “the most beautiful horse in America.” If you like “old strong beer,” it’s being sold “at the sign of the light-house at the north end” of Boston “at the lowest prices for cash.” And....”Wanted — A Woman that understands cooking and housework. It will be needless for any person to apply whose character will not bear inquiry.”

Violins For Sale At Callendar's Music-Shop, State Street, Boston. May 1795.	HELP Wanted. "A Woman That Understands Cooking and Housework." Boston, March 1797.	A Young Man of "Irreproachable Character" Wishes Employment In or Near Boston. March 1797.
A Young Woman "Wants A Place As A Housekeeper." Boston, October 1789.

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