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by 52-6F-62 63 days ago
The newspaper ads looking to capture my escaped ancestors who stole some shoes and ran away from their indenturement for Canada.

https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2013/05/advertising-in-...

If you are looking for one canonical, authoritative source to declare something absolutely for you, you will never find it. No such thing exists for any matter. That is a myth of the internet and people raised on it.

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>If you are looking for one canonical, authoritative source to declare something absolutely for you, you will never find it

Even if we treat your source as canonical and authoritative, , it doesn't answer the question I was asking. It only answers a slightly different question of "what was the first instance of a paid advertisement in an American newspaper?", which obviously is going to be American.

>But did you know that the first time a paid advertisement appeared in an American newspaper it happened here in Boston?

I don't owe you anything here.