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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1908
Page
7
Ocean liner Lusitania reportedly completed an eastbound voyage to Queenstown in five days and thirty seven hours, breaking the previous record held since June 3. The faster crossing surpasses the prior run by about two hours and forty minutes, signaling a new peak in transatlantic speed.
It gives unbounded pleasure to recommend Bucklow's Arnica Salt. Sam from Chapel Mil. N. says it cured a felon on his thumb and never fails to heal every sore, boil or wound it is applied to. Available 250 at Red Cross Pharmacy and Rickert & Wells' drug store.
Fall goods ordered prompt a clearance of summer stock. Store plans to sell remaining Summer goods regardless of profit to make room for new arrivals. Frugal pricing and quick turnover are emphasized to reduce lingering inventory.
The text references figures such as B Bunny, Juation Brewer, Henry W. Grady and his son, Major Strcett of the US Marines, Major Bissett from Maryland, M L Turner of Oklahoma City, and candidates for the US Senate. It notes awards to Collier after a New York parade, long-tenured team driving without horsewhip, and Melville W. Puller reelected as Harvard Law Association president. It lists various justices and judges, including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Bobaparte, George Gray, and David T. Watson, and mentions Judge Field of Athol Massachusetts and his role as presidential elector for Lincoln and Hamlin.
College leader L Clark Sovleye resigns after long tenure at Smith College in Northampton. Aug 27 is set as rural Nebraska schools cleaning up day with parents pupils and teachers preparing for fall. Yale President Hadley hails Frederic Scheetz Jones Minnesota as dean of the college succeeding Wright, starting after the coming academic year. John Haya Hammond contributes 10000 to the sustentation fund aiding George Washington University movement for a larger university political science college.
A fragmented summary covers early telephony progress across Denmark and a Lisbon conference on alternating current lines. A caretaker anecdote from an asylum introduces a joke about straitjackets. The piece then shifts to mammals, defining 2000 known warm-blooded milk producing species to distinguish them from other precursors.
A notice from Cushman Ward in Barre Vermont declares an electrician available for repairs at Tidble and related sites. The announcement specifies service scope and urges timely engagement for electrical work and related tasks.
A local advertisement pitches a corn cure as a warranted remedy to kill and cure corns without pain. The notice lists seller James Clark of Graniteville and provides a contact location for purchase.
Mr and Mrs John Sherry of Bt Jolinetary Centre celebrated their thirtieth wedding anniversary Saturday with a piano and songs though some guests were unable to attend. Ernest L Franklin a traveling salesman formerly with Statland Fleet died at his Lakpelorge summer cottage. A horse and wagon were stolen from Joy Shaw near Jericho after a visit to Keith's hardware in Keow Jhaetion. the chestnut mare weighed about 110 pounds and stood about twenty years old, direction of theft undetermined due to heavy rain.
A large group of workers and teams began ground preparation at Morgan Horse Farm to create a lawn area. A crushed stone road will run along the grounds, 1,600 feet long and 16 feet wide. Fencing in pastures for horses is under way. J B Feeley and Co of Boston hold the contract for sinking a water well, supplying the farm’s lyeoll water system. The improvements aim to make the farm one of the best of its kind in the country.
The Granite Company of Northtiel is finishing a tin carved link of four 2 inch eagles for shipment to Washington DC where they will be placed on an order station costing millions of dollars. A 17 foot 4 inch monument shows the Goddess of Harvest with grain and a scythe, a goat head carved at the base, with six figures planned for the statue. A cutter named Bernescork is shaping the figures including the God of Science.
Rutland July 22 Suey Lang a Chinaman held at the house of correction for unlawful presence was taken to New York in charge of U S Marshal Mor ach W Bailey. He is the first Chinaman deported from the district since April 2 1904. He was arrested on a train in Rutland April 20 on the complaint of Arthur L Weeks Chinese inspector. Lung was ordered deported May 12 after a hearing before Commissioner James A Merrill of Rutland. The decision was upheld by Judge James M Hark Goon, arrested with Lung, had 800 bond forfeited for failure to appear. Lung remains at large.
Harlington reports Roy B. Patrick posted ten thousand bail for Mrs Philomine Pasha wife of Mme Lemoine accused of violating immigration law. He requests release as bondman and bail may be furnished by a Monding company.
Washington bulletin from the Bureau of Chemistry reports Dr. Tow Wiley’s Paleon Squad investigation, urging exclusion of benzoate and related compounds from foot products. The report notes three grams per day toxicity risks and potential neurological and metabolic effects.
Foreclosure sale of the Milford pink granite quarries set for August 4 with Abe Townet named to bid at $1000. Northove Brothers hold a contract for furnishing pink granite for the Pennsylvania New York and Long Island terminal in New York City and will continue while the contract is fulfilled. Freshlin Trust Company holds a first mortgage on the property for $150,305 and a charge over the affairs of the quarry company.
Portland July 21 Mayor Leigh narrowly escaped death when heavy plate glass fell from a Market Street building during an inspection of temporary city offices. His car suffered frontend damage but no one else was hurt. The report also notes a curios lace made from human hair and a historical anecdote about Mary Queen of Scots.
An American officer toured Manila’s old Spanish prison and learned of a hidden cell behind a brick wall where inmates were buried alive. Food was delivered on a plate. when the plate returned empty, the prisoner was believed dead and receiving no more meal.
A child on a street with her mother protests hearing swearing by declaring she will not listen. The NYT tone contrasts with a traveler facing a yawning abyss, unchanged by danger, as described in the Chicago News.
A Vermont advertisement offers payment for dry bones from heads, hoofs, horns or other bones. It pays 60 cents per hundred pounds for thoroughly dry bones and more for clean, hard, fresh, dry boiled butchers bones, with freight paid from the seller’s station for shipments of 200 pounds or more.
The Barre city council placed the tax bill for 1908 in the treasurer’s hands for collection. Taxes are due on or before August 10, 1908. Unpaid taxes after that date will be turned over to the constable for collection with five percent added and costs. Barre Vermont, July 1908. Janis Mackay, Treasurer.
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