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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1908
Page
6
Barre Daily Times reports that major insurers decline to provide coverage for local firms, citing financial risk and disputed liabilities. The article notes statements from Life Lastences officials and mentions agent B. Ballard of Barre.
A column lists local ads and upcoming events including Youngson’s cut flowers Tol 317 6 and gear stores selling Masonic charms pins and watchmaking items. It promotes poultry show tickets at Sowden Lyon’s store for January 7 10 with prizes, lodge installations January 9 and a Vermont Spiritualist convention January 24 26 in Montpelier with speakers Helen Rue_seg ue and Mrs Chapman. Also notes Hale’s block stores display poultry engines incubators brooders and DeLaval separators with farm machinery orders.
City council on January 6 1908 votes to instruct constable and police to ensure all dogs within the city are licensed and collared. Ten days from issuance, January 7 to 17 1908, for compliance per city clerk James Mackay.
The text urges highest effort and integrity in all tasks, warning that half effort harms character and future success. It emphasizes spirit over mere action, advising individuals to treat work as self expression and to maintain high standards, discipline, and ambition in every endeavor.
The text outlines legal principles from various cases including liability for false statements in deceit actions and municipal liability for property damage from negligence. It blends adjoined notes with unrelated editorial phrases, plus a snippet offering dubious self-help guidance, creating a fragmented, non-cohesive record.
Bethel Crescent Club, a leading social group of about 40 members, elected officers for the coming year including President MH, vice president James, secretary and treasurer George Arnold, and other posts. The club hosts monthly meetings at its d. w. chairing building, holds a new ladies night, and plans events with guests such as Mrs. McKosson entertaining singer Mire Richard St. John visiting from Burlington. Also noted are illness updates, a Rebekahs installation, and Universalist church ladies society meeting with officers elected for the year.
Randolph Mr and Mrs Charles Holman hosted a joyful gathering of friends and relatives to celebrate the marriage, sharing cake and gifts before guests departed. Mrs Charles Rent enjoyed a ten days stay in Royalton. Miss Lilla Kent attends sanitorium lectures and plans further training. Miss Nancie Jones joins Bell Brothers in Worcester after a year there. Dr and Mrs Worry Beekean travel to North Carolina via New York, aiming for Hob Springs. Charles Hayward narrowly escapes serious injury after a wagon incident. injuries limited to shoulder with no broken bones.
Tan punctuated report from Tunbridge describes Adams’ fall on the road last week and the World’s Fair Society annual meeting set for Monday. Albany Baker Grace Brith visits relatives. several grange members attend Stratford grange installation. Town events include a planned strong year ahead for the local grange.
Raymond Carr continues to improve while Mrs Ell Drury joins gradually. Miss Howard teaches in the intermediary room. Pied Nuthrownia relocates from Arbadon tenement to Graniterite Ida. Adams returns to East Cabot after a two week vacation. Adaty leaves reactor but plans to attend the dairymen’s meeting and visit relatives in Minson Chusette before returning.
A fragment from Graniteville mentions a public meeting of Maple Leaf Club. The notice invites all members and their late run to be present. A subsequent event is described as chore will in a vlenee with three tenants to rent.
Fragmented OCR text shows garbled phrases about a cure for misery and a figure named B. James ot Lovelin with Hewtric Ditters in Bhoent Writing It breaks up memory or ability. unclear context and many nonsensical insertions.
An elderly Barre reader extols Dean's Kidney Pills as a remedy for kidney and back pain. The testimonial cites relief after eight years and urges others to buy from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo as sole U.S. agents. Price advertised at 50 cents.
A nostalgic survey of small, quick shortstops in early baseball, naming players from Hartford to Cincinnati and Detroit. It highlights speed, fielding, and hitting traits, noting giants like Wagner and Junnings as contrasts to the era’s diminutive talents and praising the evolution toward speed and versatility at the position. Also mentions Poultry Foods brand in an odd aside.
A London paper denies Miss Margaretta Drewel plans to enter a convent. Mme Feben Strakoseh arrives in New York to sing with Savage Opera. Mrs. Nathan Talbert runs the Worcester barber shop. Augusta Hale Gifford will write a history of Russia. Kathleen Leupp travels among Indian tribes to study women. Jenne Winslow Bubler is said to be the world’s only blind librarian. Katherine T Harrison, possibly the wealthiest secretary, travels daily to 26 Broadway by electric car.
Native Daughters of the Golden West, a 25 year old California society, voted to support woman suffrage. The item mentions a female lighthouse keeper at Lensowe near Liverpool and a Bostonian daughter, Anna Goodyear, seeking a congressional bill. It also notes a proposed device for corporal punishment involving turning vises to lash prisoners without touching the spine.
The article notes about 10,000 more pupils in New York City public schools than a year ago. It also mentions a new Ghent school curriculum teaching multiple languages and subjects over four years to prepare for university study.
A garbled collage cites Japan and Russia protecting China and mentions the north pole’s safety. It references agitation over swell tunes and flights charging seas per passage. The piece notes Maine white pines decline and jokes about washing houses to save fossils.
A garbled Royal Box piece notes the German emperor as a reader, the German empress in danger after a recent accident, and Prince of Wales favorites such as shooting and stamp collecting. It also mentions baby photographs as a royal portrait fad and hints at timing and life length.
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