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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1908
Page
6
A Vermont newspaper praises Hyde Park Savings Bank for keeping Vermont money in Vermont and urges Vermonters to support the Vermont for Vermont principle. It commends the bank and its President Ex Gov Carroll S Page for successfully reaching island Vermonters through local policy.
Opera House notes praise A Royal Slave coming to the oper house next Monday as a major event of the season. Clarence Bennett’s Southland production is highlighted for its dramatic construction and lavish scenic vestiaire, with every scene carried by the company. An Easter excursion to New York offers reduced Central Vermont Railway fares April 17 and return tickets through April 27, with two rail routes and steamer options.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Waite River and names J. F. Philbrick and Misa Staude Hooker of Sherbrooke. References a money matter and a fine possibly involving a farmers’ 239 item, with unclear details about a local office and port.
A disjointed text fragment presents a stream of names and phrases about fame, drinking with friends, and moral tales. It references poets, a spring event, a deadly illness, and a physician remedy, with scattered lines about solace, death, and social critique. The source reads as a miscellaneous scrap with no clear narrative or dated context.
Fragmentary OCR text from The Barre Daily Times notes 40th year and mentions National Life Assurance Company Barre Mont pies N.B. alist… unreadable. Summary preserves only readable entities and plausible context from a local newspaper card.
A garbled list of small ads and notices items include cut flowers and framing prices from Youngeons, typewriter desk offers, clairvoyant scheduling, a Catholic family paper subscription offer, office room rental notes, a cold cream product at Red Cross Pharmacy, and multiple rental listings for two tenements on South Main with contact names and addresses.
Randolph and nearby communities report visits and returns of residents, new houses nearly ready for occupancy, and a larger than usual corn canning crop forecast for the coming season. Dr Beermill, W F Hodgkins, Mrs W F Hodgkins and children, Miss Elizabeth Campbell Bay, and others are mentioned among familiar names. A canning factory foresees 200 acres of corn to supply next season.
Reading like a garbled local column, the fragment notes visits by Htn Barrett to his brother in Here, M, DT Wells in Alfiens, and Daniel Hopkins's fleeting trip. It mentions a football spread for the Lebehahs last fall night, Warren’s ride around Sen Haarpehire, Albert Noyeslige’s return from a craft voyage, and Myrtie Burner visiting family.
Bethel residents travel to Boston and New York to visit relatives and attend events. Families from Lowell Marrs and Tawnbun visit relatives in town. A rope of community notices mentions a Universalist church gathering, a masonry project at the Dueh ner plant in Guysville, and a local funeral in Rochester.
Weekend and weekday movements report residents visiting relatives and returning home. Includes Chelsea W H in Randolph, Ada J Morey visiting Men, A E Gove in Mine Myrtle visiting friends, and several residents traveling to and from towns like Meriden South Royalton Corinth Montpelier Tunbridge Washington and Norfield. Also noting town officials issuing nine dog licenses and local illnesses progress along with homestay updates for Comstock Hood and Moonen.
An old Barre Vermont advertisement claims Doan's Kidney Pills cured a man’s back and kidney weakness. It touts dramatic relief from headaches and dark spots before the eyes, credits M. Spaulding of Barre and Foster Milburn Co. as distributors, and urges readers to remember the brand.
A fragmented Scrap Book piece humorously links a woman’s dream of a bright house with a yard to a detective tone of home hunting. The Detroit fragment shows a trainman explaining a signal misread as a joke about bells and a stern trainmaster question.
Fierce wolfish mongrels roam coastal Newfoundland and Labrador villages. In winter they haul and hunt, attacking people and livestock, driving caribou inland and hindering settlement progress. A reported winter attack killed a driver, his wife, and child.
Darwin noted worm behavior and a reader explanation outlines that earthworms travel mainly in damp ground and after rain. It describes their lack of vision, their tendency to hide in dry weather, and their deep burrowing before spring thaws reunite them with the surface.
Readings trace tobacco from Hawkins and royal courts to childhood pipes in England and Charles T's reign, then shift to Kentucky's mid‑18th century setting where tribes fought for game, followed by white settlement intensifying conflict. A New York American note recalls a sanguine era in The Dark and Bloody Ground and a humorous Houston Post quip on wealth and friendship.
Fragmentary chatter about a story told in a casual street scene with characters Cait and Prosy ee-Dil, suggesting confusion and a playful or coded exchange. The text reads like overheard dialogue with requests for details and length, lacking clear events or actions.
A signed notice states a writer agrees to refund a bottle of syrup and a 3S cell bottle as proof of service. It cites Red Crone Pharmacy and multiple named parties including E A Crews Gorge Litem and McAllister Broc. Public notice text appears fragmentary and includes several misspellings.
An excerpt on William Hogarth highlights his bold if flawed career. Born among England's sharp tongues, he won fame through prints while his paintings sold slowly. Stories recount his blunt pride, sharp wit, and a volatile temperament that outsiders found hard to accommodate.
Garth exited by a different door and, after a vain search for a hackney couch, walked home in the rain and ended up soaked. He had entirely forgotten this Carriage-Modern Society.
A brief account outlines early photography developments mentioning the first light in 1800, Talbot’s 1835 advances with permanent prints and camera images, Daguerre’s publication on August 19, and Ponton’s Royal Society of Arts presentation on soluble organic matter and bichromate enabling a later usable process.
A London Sketch item recalls a Talleyrand quip about learning whist. An accompanying line plays on social advice and appearance as a young man seeks parental consent in shabby clothes. The brief vignette reflects period humor and social customs.
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