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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1908
Page
6
National Life Insurance Company Montpelier Vermont mutual 6 Ballard general agent Mont Barre DB Ballard total agent
A collage of local notices lists a new act at the Comique and clairvoyants in Barre Vermont with prices and hours, plus a real estate ad in Austin. It mentions a watch jeweler Burr, the Cato Real Estate agency bargains, and a five aside association football championship in Vermont at Myakinke park with entries via James R. Coutts.
In Graniteville on Friday evening July 10, residents planned a pleasant cream social hosted by the Presbyterian Ladies Aid. The event featured music and a focus on community fellowship, attracting local residents including Angus and Mr Norman Murray.
The Remedy That Does, King’s New Discovery, is praised as a cure all saving Mrs. K. R. Pierson of Mihurn Centre Pa from ongoing throat and lung troubles. The old remedy at Hed Cross Pharmacy Rickert & Well’s Drug Store features trial bottles and low prices, with claims of long lasting relief and potential full recovery.
Mr and Mrs John Prince of Randolph observed their seventy seventh anniversary quietly on a Monday. Born in Bethel and Moretown, they married in Moretown July 1 1844 and lived in Marebury Braintree Randolph. Seven children born, three living: Moue Sherwin Flint in Chester Mexa Fred Prince in Texas George Prince in Randolph.
The article profiles diverse figures: George H. Williams as Grant’s sole surviving cabinet member at eighty five, Edward Peters claimed oldest policeman in the U S in Sioux Park Iowa at ninety four, Thomas Clifford a New York Hotel Plaza doorman who bought twelve thousand dollars in hotel bonds, General Thomas F H Hubbard elected president of the Peary Arctic Club succeeding Morris B Jesup, Lord Redesdale a Gloucester gardener advising King Edward on Buckingham Palace and Windsor garden changes, Rear Admiral Evans skilled in knitting crochet and embroidery, George Barry McMillan Cape Colony graduate entering UC Berkeley as first South African representative, sent by the Cape government to study agronomists.
A Bellevue election scene recalls women voting while caring for babies. A woman has fenced in 2000 acres of public land, illustrating grants to women over every privilege men have. Time proclaims Balglan women’s future right to testify in civil suits.
Barre residents are urged to try Dean's Kidney Pills as a remedy for back pain headaches and kidney related discomfort. Annie Gibb of Brooklyn Street Thane Vermont testifies she improved after using the product bought from B A Down’s drug store and endorses the remedy sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as the genuine Dean's Kidney Pills.
Groton voters at a special meeting voted to tax-exempt Hem of Clark & Davlleen for ten years to aid an electric power plant. Work to begin at once, bringing hoped-for job opportunities to local stonecutters and residents.
The Baltimore American notes a wave of fi nt sighings and a perfect Jani as men who want it face limits. The Detroit Tribune references confing ttn wants and the ensuing fret with limited relief.
Washington reports mixed dispatches on Nicaragua aiding Honduras amid a revolutionary movement. One despatch claims Nicaragua recruits and troops move to aid Hort Duran, while another from El Salvador’s capital says the Honduran uprising has failed.
A rebellious movement in Honduras has captured Gracias and gained control of Amapala port on the Pacific coast. A prominent American observer says the revolt aims to back Honduran and Salvadoran allies and could target Nicaragua’s President Zelaya after stabilizing the new government. Internal unrest and economic tension rise as regional powers react.
A.W. Dimock describes marriage customs among the Hopi Jajo and Teblo tribes. For Topi Teblo men, parental negotiation leads to a three week seeding ritual and sunrise bathing. some grooms refuse yet later comply. Navajo ceremonies are grander though girls are deemed nicer. A Navajo suitor pays twelve horses on first marriage entry, nine on second, later entries free as a respect token, while the groom’s family never meets his mother in law after the rite.
A fragmentary note cites a bandit at a vintage Nome venue and a jokey exchange about a dog and cat. The text references Baltimore American, Young Nature Fakir, and Chicago Tribune as sources or echoes, with surreal dialogue and unclear context.
The text remains unreadable but suggests Detter persists in a close SB contest while a spouse or partner is mentioned. details are unclear due to fragmented OCR.
A Boston winter tale recounts Judge William Goffe and Edward Whalley challenging a boastful fencing master who built a stage. The judge shields with a cheese napkin and a mop, resisting with calm courage until the master threatens a broadsword. The pair vanish as the foe admits defeat and wonders who they are.
A comical incident follows an elderly man buying two tickets for a firefighters ball. He asks a police officer where to buy, ends up at a fire station, touches a wall button, and triggers a chaotic alarm as fire crews rush in. He calmly asks to buy another ticket, while laughter erupts and order is restored.
The Paris critic Francisque Sarcey kept a splendid library with staff meeting grim fates. A released convict reformed then fled with books. Debris the dramatist sank into melancholy. a decorous clown pulled shelves into pyramids then vanished. The final Polish librarian perished in the charity ball fire.
A compilation notes Madrid police ending beggar plague with Lilnd remaining. New York averages 225 deaths daily amid birth rate 125 per day. Chicago Fourth Precinct ward 850 residents report 26 under 21 and none under six. Valparaiso Chile relies on rolling bells as fire alarms to call specific fire companies.
An atoll in the Marshall group was ripped apart by a terrible 1905 hurricane. Forty foot waves swept over the speck of land, destroying all vegetation and life, with no humans saved. The upper coral was broken away and days later only calm sea remained where the island had stood.
The advertisement promotes a concert lineup including Come Where My Love Lies Dream be with a flustrated cover Trust Her Not for 50 centa I Would Not Live Always without accompaniment See the Conquering Hero Comes with full orchestra There Was a Little Fisher Maiden in three parts The Tale of a Swordfish with many scales and Home Sweet Home in A flat.
Readable notes describe Bo livia Indians wearing bark shirts and hats, with bark soaked to soften fiber then beaten for pliability. Siam labeled the land of temples with new temples rising and old ones seldom repaired.
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