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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1906
Page
6
Carroll W. Martin proprietor offers Christmas gifts on sale including cards calendars postals books Bibles diaries wallets and pens at 140 No Main St Gordon Block location listed with Dennison tags and seals in stock.
In stock sleigh movers second hand harness and relevant equipment offered by Cortland Cart and Carriage Co Kigigh with guaranteed wood and parts. Trade or exchange options for hay present. Local ad language reflects a rural commerce promotion with emphasis on practical transit gear and horse equipment.
Reader letter extols Doan's Kidney Pills as a cure for headaches backache and dizziness linked to kidney issues. Annie Gibb of Barre Vermont recounts relief after using the pills from Crown's drug store and endorses Foster Milburn Co. as U S agents. Read the name Doan's and take no others.
Martin Henry Carroll of Barro Vermont is announced as the prize winner for this week in the Boss Cracker contest run by Boss & Son New London Connecticut. Readers are urged to submit words made from the letters in B O S S OR A C K E R S and mail a sealed Boss Cracker end to Cover the weekly five dollar prize.
An advertisement from the National Life Insurance Company of Vermont promotes lifetime annuities payable yearly. The notice lists agents Ballard and N. B. Ballard in Barre Vermont, with rooms 3 and 3 in Miles Block.
A jumble of local ads offers hand painted china jewelry and silverware from multiple shops including Holmes the Joc hor and Mc Lean. Also notices for hospital meetings, lodge gatherings, charity drives, sales at Fitts' store, and upcoming rehearsals for Rob Roy with times and venues across Barre in December 1908.
Wallace remains ill and Mrs Frank Wallace is recovering after illness. W A Jackson traveled to Washington on business yesterday. Howard Ordway helps for a few days with ware Martie. Don Camp lent yoke of oxen to Mr Rinker of Randolph. The thermometer showed 30 degrees below zero at 7 am Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Liman Matots visited in town for Sunday.
Berlin December 19 the Reichstag opened discussion on Germanys meat scarcity caused by radicals and socialists. The chancellor faced questions on frontiers for cattle imports and tariff reductions on animal foods. Welmo tt cited wholesale meat prices at 22 percent above prewar levels, noting Belgium United States and Russia prices as reference points and the public complaints as proof of widespread strain.
Lipton promises two yachts on the next venture noting quality and pot quantity matter. The piece also cites varied quotes on marriage contracts, forest preservation by beavers, and a humorous exchange about car trouble in period publications.
Williamstown residents are invited to a town hall gathering this Saturday. The Village Improvement Society plans a ye olden time concert at the town hall Thursday December 20 featuring Justin Thompson Stafford of Longacre who recently returned from Spain. The local thermometer dropped to 10 degrees below zero yesterday and stone sheds were shut due to severe weather.
A Mississippi valley tale alleges a wife lured by a tainted sales pitch to endure a surgical scare. instead a tonic named in the notice allegedly cured her general debility and various ailments. It touts a 50 cent bottle and a Providence pharmacy selling similar remedies.
A fragmentary notice describes the operatic play Rob Roy MacGregor with Tan Gordon, staged at Covent Garden in 1815. It lists cast roles, chorus quality, dances by Mike Margaret, and costumes by Herman Buchbate. Advance tickets and committee arrangements are noted.
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