Show TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO we found the following bit of information about the print shop of benjamin franklin which is interesting and typical of this nig character when benjamin franklin started his printing shop the first order he secured was a handbill advertising an auction sale the charge for this work would about equal in 1 our present currency job printing at that time was limited to handbills hand bills to be stuck to trees and fences and usually advertised an auction sale a traveling show or 0 r something similar franklin early added to his printing business a sta tio ners shop in which lie he kept blanks of all sorts including bills of lading these bills formerly began with shipped by the grace of god etc some people of philadelphia objected to this phraseology as making light of serious things franklin therefore printed some without these words and inserted in his paper the following advertisement ti bills of lading for sale at this office with or without the grace of god J linton eagle |