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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1916
Page
7
Birth announcements from St Johnsbury and St Paul plus a barn fire in Vershire ruled incendiary. Pittsford voters rejected a 300 acre Southerly land setoff proposed by Proctor. Rutland doctors offered free lung exams on Medical Examination Day to curb tuberculosis. Vermont military training boosts guard efficiency per Norwich and UVM officials. Marriages and local crimes including a Menden hold up, Shrewsbury arson and deaths in Derry are reported.
Brattleboro Trust Co directors vote to pay all current employees a bonus equal to 10 percent of the salaries paid during the bank’s nearly decade of operation. The Brattleboro Trust Co began business January 26, 1907, in its current quarters. Deposits total $1,806,770 last night, with surplus and undivided profits near $875,000 on $100,000 capital. The present dividend rate stands at 6 percent.
Hannum Leonard 29, son of Mr and Mrs Ered Leonard, Londonderry, shot himself in his father’s store Monday morning. Found by his father with a revolver near the body, believed to be mentally deranged. Survived by parents and brother Lawreny, a University of Vermont medical student.
A United States Interior Department survey notes aluminum is increasingly used in auto production. Improvements in alloy knowledge and casting methods enable lighter, stronger parts such as dashboards and body panels. Aluminum sheet and extrusion stabilize car frames, reducing denting and boosting durability.
A smudged scriptorium reports on British borrowing signals and German financial activity, then shifts to Vermont chiropodists establishing a professional association. Dr. Ernest C. Stainback leads a Vermont lecture on ethics and standards, noting chiropodists as essential to public welfare and outlining regulating laws proposed by multiple states.
An advertisement-style notice promises permanent relief from dandruff using Parisian Sage sold at Red Crow Pharmacy and druggists. It touts rapid results in a few days, claiming restored hair vitality and freedom from slow druth, with no safety caveats.
In the December American Magazine essay, two personality types are contrasted: quick, decisive mosquito minds and slow, deliberative elephant minds. The piece argues both groups contain capable individuals, notes gender stereotypes about intuition and rapid judgment, and suggests productive collaboration when mosquitoes and elephants cooperate rather than imitate one another.
Fragmentary dialogue from the Decembr Worm ens Home Companion style vignette. A narrator discusses youth and aging, desire for a playful connection, and the tension between growing up and staying in youth. The speaker reflects on wanting a temporary escape and the ache for a “shadow” of youth.
An advertisement promotes life insurance as a means to create a fund for the family. It explains that paying premiums to National Life Insurance Company of Vermont builds a principal and interest for future support, with full payoff to the family if needed. The ad notes full general agent in Rialto Building, Montpelier, Vermont.
The commissioners of the Berlin district announce they are appointed to receive claims against the estate of Vienna L. Hotel of Berlin. They will meet at Kf Beck’s residence in Berlin on November 12 and May 12 next year, from 9 AM to 1 PM, to examine and prevent claims. Dated Berlin November 12, 1916, THOS H. CAVE JR, CHARLES A. BIGGS, commissioners.
An advertisement urges readers to buy a farm and gain independence as prices are low and farm products fetch high prices. The real estate agency J.J. Dashner & Son promotes calls to 370 for discussion and a free farm catalogue request from Howland Building, Barre.
A Vermont real estate ad offers village farm homes near stores and a rail station, with 10 rooms, barns, wells, fruit trees, and several acres of land. Priced around 2200 dollars with two houses, near Barre and Maine border, presented by D. A. Perry Real Estate Agency for early viewing appointments.
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