To the customers for Thomas's Massachusetts spy. [electronic resource] : ... 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 ..
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[Worcester, Mass. : Printed by Isaiah Thomas, 1786]
Includes also proposals for publishing the Worcester magazine in lieu of the Massachusetts spy as "advertisements accompanying magazines are not subjected to a duty."
Signed: Isaiah Thomas. Printing-office, Worcester, April 3d, 1786
Printed area measures 28.4 x 16.5 cm
Bristol B6374
Shipton & Mooney 44975
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series
Electronic 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)
