Columns 1-3: These columns were usually some combination of
advertisements and local
announcements. Lists of candidates for local offices, marriage and
death notices, meetings
of local militia units, resolutions of the town council, and other local
information appeared
here, and were almost always shared by the Vindicator and the
Spectator. Curiously,
among the advertisements appearing in these first few columns were
announcements of
out-of-state lotteries. Column 2 of the February 3 edition, for
example, carried ads for the
Delaware and Georgia lotteries. Such items never appeared in the
Spectator.
Columns 4-7: Here, advertisements appeared, but not in any
particular order. The local
appeared alongside the ads from New York, the ads for hotels alongside
those for
insurance companies and grocers, the commercial alongside the
announcements of legally
mandated public auctions and chancery court decisions. Every ad
appearing on page 3, apparently, was "Miscellaneous."
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