Dublin Core
Title
Ephemera
Subject
Ephemera
Description
Various scraps and print ephemera acquired with the Nelson Family Juvenilia Collection
Creator
Not specified
Source
Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
Rights
Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
Type
Print ephemera
File
Transcription
Ephemera
[Document 1]
[Page 1: Illustration of children outside]
[Page 2]
Lorenzo W. [indistinguishable] By Lora C Watts
____________________________________________________________
[Document 2]
[Page 1]
New Jersey, 1862
Months after date I promise to pay to Dr. E. D. Farr, of Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa., pr Bearer, $8 Dollars and 75 cents, value received, with Interest from date. $8.75
[Page 2: Blank page]
____________________________________________________________
[Document 3]
[Page 1: Typed document]
Circulation Department.
W.d. Boyce Co.
Saturday Blade Chicago Ledger
– PROVED CIRCULATION 500,000 COPIES WEEKLY –
Greatest Weeklies in the World!!
Chicago
_______________________________
22,000 Happy Boys like this one [illustration of boy to the right] sell the Blade and Ledger each week and earn spending money. Only a couple of hours required on Saturday mornings.
No trouble to sell the Papers.
BOYS WANTED in every town where we have no agent.
BOYCE BUILDING
112-114 Dearborn Street
HOME OF THE BLADE & LEDGER
_______________________________
Dear Friend:
We wrote you a letter a while ago offering you a splendid chance to make some spending money, without risking a cent. We have not yet heard from you. Perhaps our letter to you has been lost in the mail, for no bright hustling boy such as you are, would throw such a good offer aside. We made you an unusual offer. We repeat it to you. lf you will fill out the enclosed postal card, which is an application for an agency, we will send you a package of BLADES and LEDGERS. These two papers together sell for five cents, and we will allow you to keep two cents out of every nickle for your trouble. You do not pay for unsold copies. We have thousands of boy agents all over the United States and Canada who earn a nice sum each week in this way. Every little while we send a present to our agents, and we hope you will take the agency and start at once. If we do not hear from you soon we will give the agency to another boy in your town who will be glad to get the chance we offer you, but we write you first and we want you to accept and we will send you a complete agent’s outfit free, as soon as you send in the enclosed postal card. Hoping to hear from you by return mail, we are,
Yours truly,
W. D. Boyce Co.
N. B. 2.
[Page 2: Back of document (perhaps used as scrap), hand-written note]
I [remember] a time in 1901. I was going to a party in Mill Village and I saw a wood-chuck and I was frightened.