. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. '/ ^\^tllir, lb Parts w, 01^'; C»—^ 1 nent, which ijade fair to malce goods hard to get, customers would be wise to make their purchases be- fore the supply became exhausted. Boyd's prediction was sound. The Boston Tea Party of the previous December had evoked from Parliament a handful of repressive measures, the Intolerable .'\cts, and at the time of Boyd's advertisement, the first Continental Congress in session was .soon to declare that all im- ports from Great Britain should be halted. This Baltimore scare advertising may well have been
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. '/ ^\^tllir, lb Parts w, 01^'; C»—^ 1 nent, which ijade fair to malce goods hard to get, customers would be wise to make their purchases be- fore the supply became exhausted. Boyd's prediction was sound. The Boston Tea Party of the previous December had evoked from Parliament a handful of repressive measures, the Intolerable .'\cts, and at the time of Boyd's advertisement, the first Continental Congress in session was .soon to declare that all im- ports from Great Britain should be halted. This Baltimore scare advertising may well have been heeded by Boyd's customers, for trade with the mother country had been interrupted before; in the wake of the Townshend Acts in 1767, when Parliament had placed import duties on \'arious products, including tea, .Xmerican merchants in various cities had entered into nonimportation agreements. Certainly, there PAPER 10: OLD ENGLISH PATENT MEDICINES IN Figure 7-—Bottles of British Oil, igth and early 20th century, from the Samuel Aker, David and George Kass collection, .Albany, New York. {Smith- sonian photo 44201-fl.) was a decided decrease in the Boston advertising of patent medicines received from London. With re- spect to imports of any kind, it became necessary to explain, and one merchant noted that his goods were "the Remains of a Consignment receiv'd before the Non-Importation Agreement took ; "' \Vhen Parliament yielded to the financial pressure and abol- ished all the taxes but the one on tea, nonimportation collapsed. This fact is reflected in an advertisement listing nearly a score of patent medicines, including "' Massachusetts Gazette, Boston, December 21, 1769. AMERICA 169. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian I
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