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To the customers for Thomas's Massachusetts spy : ... The tax on news-paper advertisements has a direct tendency not only to restrain, but to destroy those necessary vehicles of publick information, by taking away their only support ... These considerations have induced the printer of the Massachusetts spy, although with greatest reluctance, to discontinue the publication of that news-paper.

Author/creator Thomas, Isaiah, 1749-1831
Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Worcester, Mass.] : [Printed by Isaiah Thomas], [1786]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 34 x 22 cm
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 44975. ^A478749
General noteIncludes also proposals for publishing the Worcester magazine in lieu of the Massachusetts spy as "advertisements accompanying magazines are not subjected to a duty."
General noteSigned: Isaiah Thomas. Printing-office, Worcester, April 3d, 1786.
General notePrinted area measures 28.4 x 16.5 cm.
References Bristol B6374
References Shipton & Mooney 44975
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 44975).
Genre/formProspectuses.
Genre/formBroadsides.

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