Vintage Letterheads- Boston Strong in Mattoon, Illinois For Sale

Boston gets its name from Boston, England, a town in Lincolnshire which was also once the home of several prominent colonists. Before that, local Native Americans originally referred to Boston as Shawmut.
Founded in xxxx, Boston was America's largest, wealthiest, and most influential city until the xxxxs. The Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party and several of the early battles of the Revolutionary War (such as the Battles of both Lexington and Concord and the Siege of Boston) occurred near the city. During this period, Paul Revere made his famous ride. As a result Boston's historic sites remain a popular tourist draw to this day.
After the Revolutionary War, the city became one of the world's wealthiest international trading ports, especially exports of rum, fish, salt and tobacco. After attaining its city charter in xxxx, Boston became one of the largest manufacturing centers in the nation noted for its garment, leather goods, and machinery industries by the mid xxxx's, as helped along by waves of new immigrants arriving from Europe, especially large numbers of Irish and Italians, giving the city a large Roman Catholic population which is currently the third largest Catholic community in the United States, behind only Chicago and Los Angeles.
While Chicago has its famous xxxx Chicago Fire that decimated its city, one year later Boston endured a fire which destroyed about xxxx buildings,
1) xxxx Geo. S. Hutchings Church Organs (23-27 Irvington St.) Boston $11
2) xxxx International Trust Company (no specific address cited) Boston $7
3) xxxx American Oak Leather Co. (176-182 South St. and 137 Beach St.) Boston $11
4) xxxx Bradley Pulverizing Co. (for pulverizing gold and silver ores) 92 State St. (Boston) $11
5) xxxx Joseph Middleby Inc. Bakers & Confectioners Supplies (201-203 State St. and 98-100 Central St.) $11
6) xxxx National Shawmut Bank of Boston (no specific address cited) Boston $7
7) xxxx D.B. Updike The Merrymount Press (signed by historian, writer, printer D.B. Updike) 712 Beacon St. (Boston) $15
8) xxxx Buster Brown Shoe Co. (no specific address cited) Boston $9
9) xxxx Gillette Safety Razor Co. (no specific address cited) Boston $15
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P.S. Inventor King Camp Gillette was born in xxxx in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and became the first manufacturer of both the safety razor and razor blades.