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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1903
Page
4
The Dreyfus affair reappears with new features heightening drama in France. In the United States football total injuries rise with 22 killed and 18 severely wounded, while political talk shifts to Vermont, St Johnsbury reports arrests for intoxication and boasts of low disturbance despite fall fairs. The Rutland Herald notes Hoosier law impacts and Vermont town policing in St Johnsbury.
London reports no intent to push the Younghusband expedition to Lhasa or to permanently occupy Gyantse. Upon arrival at Gyantse Colonel Younghusband hopes to reopen talks with Tibetans though preparations for emergencies are noted. The move stems from cabinet debates on Tibet and Moscow protests against British aggression.
Archibald Stewart was admitted to the soldiers home on Saturday from Rutland. There are now 81 inmates at the home, 1 in the hospital. A bankruptcy filing lists F Morse of Brighton with assets $1,649.01 and liabilities $1,026, with $305 exempt. Rutland water analysis by the State laboratory at Burlington urges drinking-water filtration. Brattleboro license commissioners issue a license to HB Hans of West Brattleboro to run through June. The Buffalo McKinley monument contract goes to Geo. W. Maltby of Buffalo for Vermont white marble, with total cost near $100,000 including carving. Gov. McCullough commissions Charles A. Lopez to model the bust of Hiram A. Hise for the Montpelier state library, to be completed in time for the 1904 session. Deputy Sheriff John Nash arrested Frank Primrose in Rutland after Primrose completed a term in the House of Detention. Primrose headed a trio that robbed Mattison store and post office at South Shaftsbury in 1908, pursued to Johnsonville, N Y, with gunfire on both sides.
About 82,000 cotton textile operatives in New England faced pay reductions this fall, boosting total cutbacks to roughly 75,000 with New Bedford in Monday. The typical decrease is around 10 percent, ranging from 6 to 18 percent by job type, and workers largely accepted the changes without protest, avoiding a broader strike.
December report notes one death and several new typhoid cases in Butler. Relief efforts are organized with seventeen nurses arriving from Pittsburg and Rochester and more en route from Old City and other points. The nurse and attendant supply is overwhelmed by demand as four local physicians are sick.
Seventeenth victim of the Big Four wreck near Indianapolis on December 1 reportedly died at St Vincent's hospital. H C Wright, a Pendleton student, suffered a broken back and is counted as the seventeenth fatality from the crash.
A fragmentary poem in old newspaper style urges aid for the poor during Christmas. It recalls Santa, gifts, and rising need as charitable work grows in city courts and tenements. The piece ends noting continued efforts by The Telegraph in Hamburg.
THINGS THEATRICAL reports Carla Frohman leading The Three Little Maids for a four month Australia tour starting next April. Henry B. Harris hires RB. A. Roberts to stage Rawson's Folly by Richard Harding Davis with Robert Ede Jr. at the lead. Nathaniel Stothbay takes Amelia Broghaw's management. Miss Bingham opens January 15 at a Broadway theater in a new Pierrre de Gourcelle play. Henry B. Harrishaw coordinates comedians to back Leo Ditrichstein’s What’s the Matter With Susan. George Alexander buys English rights to Major Andre by Clyde Fitch and will portray Major André in London in January.
Alaska aims to complete 10000 miles of tail roads and 20000 miles of wagon roads and telephone lines to house and employ up to 10 000 100 people as transportation improves. Veale and Knight’s offers ready made dresses for children aged two to twelve.
Our Renting Library expands monthly with new fiction titles and highlights the best current works. Thirty books were rented over the last two days, while nearly 200 people have joined our Magazine Library. We offer low prices and renewals for favorite periodicals, promising you cannot do better.
A Barre dry goods store celebrates one year of steady growth and expanding premises. Carpentry finished enlarging quarters enables larger stock and higher sales as customers are urged to visit and inspect the broader selection and fair pricing.
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