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Paul Revere in a much different role, on the front page...
Paul Revere in a much different role, on the front page...
Item # 684273
May 04, 1799
COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, May 4, 1799 Almost an entire column on the front page is taken up with: "Recommendations Of The Board of Health" signed in type by its president: PAUL REVERE, which focuses on their purpose: "...to accomplish the important purpose for which it was instituted...to secure and promote health; and, to prevent as far as lays in our power the return of a malady so fatal as that which made an alarming progress in this capital & raged with dreadful severity in some of our sister cities...", referring to the Yellow Fever.
Four pages, archivally rejoined at the spine, good condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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