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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1908
Page
7
A customer dialogue reveals services offered by Union Furniture Exchange. The seller confirms upholstery, picture frames, and buying selling secondhand furniture. The store location is given as 349 North Main Street in the G Tomasi block.
A new sanitary day and night lunch room has opened at the Northern hotel. Most linches in tog city are served at regular rates. Step in and try one.
A local supplier markets Holophone shades and a complete line of electrical lamps with the latest improved grades. The ad promises customers can obtain all needed lighting from the store and save money by choosing their products.
Fragments show a warning against unqualified handling of electrical work and urge hiring an expert. The ad proclaims a big fall clothing sale to make room for new stock, offering deep discounts on shirts undershirts hats pants and shoes to attract customers quickly.
An old farming guide stresses proper wheat binding and shocking techniques to withstand wind and rain. It prescribes three bundles, center indles, end caps, and a lengthwise cape to protect grain, plus thrashing promptly to avoid losses and price drops.
A vivid historical note explains how bees gather nectar from lower seeded flowers, transporting sugar and starch to honey storage. It covers dew formation, nectar transfer, and the bee’s digestion and storage process, noting the bee’s natural exudation and intake powers as ordinary.
A quirky tale explains naval decorum, noting that sailors should touch or raise their cap at the ship stern when the national anthem plays as a mark of respect. The piece also mentions a Paris dog delivering wine and newspapers each morning, then returning for bottles.
A brief reminder ad from Osborne announces continued business at the old location. It lists miscellaneous goods including shirts suspenders stockings and provisions. The note mentions rebate checks of one percent and ends with the slogan when in doubt try Osborne's.
Fragmented July city clerk records mention marriages and dividends, while reports detail a barefoot boy theft warning at a home, a September dinner and show plan, a horse show with cash prizes, and a Vermont photographer convention. An accidental blank cartridge injured a Rutland boy, with his cousin nearby.
An incident on the Central Vermont railroad track near Swanton Junction left Edward Doig with a head gab and multiple crushed fingers after he apparently drove onto the track while intoxicated. Authorities report he was assisted by extra engines as the accident halted traffic.
Sixteen British trades unions with about 300000 members back a plan for a one cent eight page daily newspaper named the Morning Herald. The Trades Union Congress parliamentary committee would run the venture with an estimated capital of £400000.
A large group of inbound children arrived in Rutland amid festive greetings at the depot. They were escorted by escorts and taken by farm wagons to Mrs Jeremiah Thornton’s home on the Killington route, where temporary shelters were set up for their stay.
Annie Town, 17, daughter of Mr and Mrs Town of Rutland, held on a charge of attempting to set her father’s building afire. She waived examination, pleaded not guilty, and posted $2,000 bail. Her mother Mrs Town and brother Benjamin Mascot posted bonds. An accomplice, Vowel Turkot, also arraigned, pleaded not guilty and was held on $2,000. Annie allegedly set the fire to her father’s store multiple times.
Vernon Ct August. John Zett a farmer on Bolton road killed his wife and granddaughter with a hammer and knife and attempted to kill his son. He was arrested and taken to Hoekwile police station for questioning.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a character list endorsing a supposed Dr King's New Life Pills product sold at Red Craig Pharmacy and Kickert Wells Drug Store. Language is garbled and lacks verifiable facts, but indicates a local promotional claim attributed to Mra Chas K Smith of West Franklin.
We want all the bones we can get. We will pay 60¢ per hundred pounds for thoroughly dry bones. Higher pay for clean, hard, fresh, dry boiled bones. Freights paid from your station if shipped in lots of 200 pounds or more. Ship in barrels of cheap sacks. Page, Myde Park, ve.
The court in Montpelier has ordered that the application of Carrie Maysett administratrix of W Hunwets late of Barre for permission to sell all real estate in Barre and surrounding lands be referred for a hearing on August 1 1908 at the Probate Office. Interested parties must publish notice weekly for three weeks in the Barre Daily Times and appear to object if they have cause. Hiram Carleton, Judge, dated August 2 1918.
Barre Vermont July 11 shows County Examiner C. D. Mathewson certifying examination results for candidates. The note assesses mental and moral character and ability to govern in Vermont state matters.
A damaged line notes a quarry rental offering in Stew nay with teen workers and good road access near a gear railroad. Names Wald M Stevens Chester Ve 10108 appear in the fractured text.
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