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Old 01-05-2015, 10:22 AM
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SteveH
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So, here is the current "translation" (English to English hehe) The Underlined Italics portions are still up for debate
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New York Jany 17/63
173 [/b](written over 162)

Missiers I.M. Singer & Co NY.


Please send P.B. Goodsell Esqr
of the "Boston Traveller" Boston, Mass, one Folding
Top Family Sewing machine as a gift and charge it to
advertising account
Wayne Lowe




Written vertically over the document is:
Accepted
I.M. Singer & Co
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Some research so far:

Boston Traveller
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Evening_Traveller
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022244/

P.B. Goodsell, Esq.
Lots of references to documents printed BY P.B. Goodsell (as the printer/publisher)
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