Guide to Boston and Vicinity[: A Complete Hand-book, Directing the Stranger how to Find Its Public Buildings, Hotels ... with a Map of the City ..].1867 |
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100 Tremont street 28 State street Agent American Athenæum Boot and Shoe Bowdoin Square Boylston streets Brattle bridge Broad St Bromfield street cars Causeway street Cemetery Central St CHARLES Charlestown Chauncy Church City colored Commission Merchants Congress St Congress street corner Cornhill Court St Court street Dealers Wholesale Depot Devonshire St East Boston EMMENAGOGUE Engraving Faneuil Hall Federal St feet Fort Warren Franklin St Glass granite Hanover St Haymarket Square High St HOTEL hundred India St institution Island John Kilby St Leather Library located Manufacturers Wholesale Milk St Newport Railway Station NOYES Office Old State House Paper Park Street Patent Pearl St Quincy Railroad School street Scollay's Building Society South Boston Springs stranger Sudbury Sudbury St Summer St Summer street Tremont House Tremont Row Tremont St Tremont street Tremont Temple Union Warren Washington St Washington street Water St Wharf Wholesale and Retail
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Page 118 - Ships, Vessels, Goods, Wares or Merchandizes, &c., to be Sold or Lett; or Servants Runaway; or Goods Stoll or Lost, may have the same Inserted at a Reasonable Rate ; from Twelve Pence to Five Shillings, and not to exceed : Who may agree with Nicholas Boone for the same at his Shop next door to Major Davis's, Apothecary in Boston near the Old Meeting House. " All Persons in Town and Country may have said NewsLetter Weekly upon reasonable tearms, agreeing with John Campbell Post Master for the same.
Page 61 - It bears no inscriptions, fronting to the rising sun, from which the future antiquarian shall wipe the dust. Nor does the rising sun cause tones of music to issue from its summit. But at the rising of the sun, and at the setting of the sun, in the blaze of noonday, and beneath the milder effulgence of lunar light, it looks, it speaks, it acts, to the full comprehension of every American mind, and the awakening of glowing enthusiasm in every American heart.
Page 69 - ... to such young married artificers, under the age of twenty-five years, as have served an apprenticeship in the said town, and faithfully fulfilled the duties required in their indentures, so as to obtain a good moral character from at least two respectable citizens, who are willing to become their sureties, in a bond...
Page 78 - Academy is to promote and encourage the knowledge of the antiquities of America, and of the Natural History of the country, and to determine the uses to which the various natural productions of the country may be applied ; to promote and encourage medical discoveries, mathematical disquisitions, philosophical...
Page 125 - THE OLD ELM This tree has been standing here for an unknown period. It is believed to have existed before the settlement of Boston, being full grown in 1722, exhibited marks of old age in 1792, and was nearly destroyed by a storm, in 1832. Protected by an iron enclosure in 1854. JVC Smith, Mayor.
Page 117 - THE PRESS. The achievements of the last fifty years have been such that no local or temporary interest can satisfy the mind ; everything is conducted on a grand scale. The extension of education, the progress of science, the facilities of communication and intercourse between nations, and, above all, the freedom of the Press, and its consequent wide and rapid circulation of news, have served to produce this extent of thought and purpose. In the United States the Press is supremely important. The...
Page 79 - For the relief of that worthy class of colored persons who have endeavored through life to maintain themselves, but who from various causes are finally dependent on the charity of others, an association is hereby organized under the name of ' The Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Persons.
Page 78 - ... to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity and happiness of a free, independent and virtuous people.
Page 77 - America, and the natural history of the country, and to determine the uses to which the various productions of the country may be applied, to promote and encourage medical discoveries, mathematical disquisitions, philosophical inquiries...
Page 78 - Technology, for the purpose of instituting and maintaining a society of arts, a museum of arts, and a school of industrial science, and aiding generally, by suitable means, the advancement, development and practical application of science in connection with arts, agriculture, manufactures and commerce...