Submitted by a reader, this newspaper article was found in an old family scrapbook. I'd place the article as coming some time in the mid 1870's when the Old South Meeting House was in despearte need of money and Mary Sawyer Tyler -by then in her 70s - helped raise money for the historic building. (click on the article image for a large, readable version.
A sample from the article:
From the lamb's wool a quantity of yarn had been spun, and Mrs. Tyler brought some of it to Aunt Tabitha's Bee, and sold it at twenty-five cents fo each piece; so that up to last week Mary's little lamb had earned sixty dollars toward paying for the Old South Church in Boston.
This is the true story of Mary's little lamb.
UPDATE: It appears that the article noted above was also printed in the March 24, 1878 edition of the New York Times in which it states that it originally ran in The Boston Advertiser. So, it is possible that the image above was cut from the Boston Advertiser or, perhaps, another newspaper in the region that also took it from the Advertiser. It was not, however, clipped from the NY Times as the Times version began with a different first paragraph.
FURTHER UPDATE: Additional investigation reveals that the article was later included in a privately printed book entitled: Wayside Gleanings for Leisure Moments.
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