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Domestic News
December 24, 1767
The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
Boston's cost-saving funeral practices limit mourning to minimal attire and gloves only for bearers and ministers, reducing family expenses from 100-150 pounds sterling to about 8 pounds per funeral, achieving overall savings of 100,000 pounds. Other towns urged to follow.
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The Practice of the Town relative to Funerals by which a saving has been made of 100,000l. 'tis to give Gloves only to Bearers and Ministers: to make use of no other Mourning for the nearest Relations, than a Weed in the Hat for Men, and a black Bonnet, Gloves, Ribbons and Handkerchiefs for Women. Fifteen Hundred or Two Thousand Pair of British-made Gloves have been given or rather thrown away at one Funeral, before the new practice took place: and such Families in Boston as then expended 100 or 150l. Sterling on those Occasions, now expend scarcely 8l. What a saving will there be to the Province by the several Towns following Boston in this grand Particular.
What sub-type of article is it?
Economic
Social Event
Death Or Funeral
What keywords are associated?
Boston Funerals
Mourning Practice
Cost Saving
Funeral Expenses
Gloves Mourning
Where did it happen?
Boston
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Boston
Outcome
savings of 100,000l. overall; per funeral from 100-150l. sterling to scarcely 8l.
Event Details
Town practice limits funeral mourning to gloves for bearers and ministers, weed in hat for men, black bonnet, gloves, ribbons, and handkerchiefs for women; previously wasted 1500-2000 pairs of British gloves per funeral.