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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1903
Page
4
A Manchester hotel faces probable license revocation after serving drinks to a minor last Sunday, cited by the city chief of police. The incident prompted the state commission to file action, asserting duty to uphold the law despite the proprietors claims of ignorance.
The piece surveys major waterways like the Niagara River and Thames with notes on depths and navigability, then shifts to fragmentary verse and wild imagery from a Chicago Tribune print. It blends travel observation with nocturnal haunting lines and archaic phrasing.
A readable snippet shows playful banter about storms, appetite, and shaving with a pipe. The dialog features caricatures labeled Latio, Tootle, Missus, and Hub, with a light joking tone typical of a Chicago Tribune page.
The item cites the 118th Episcopal diocese convention in St. Albans on June 17 and 18, a Randolph resident hosting a June birthday, Mrs Hetty Green and daughter Sylvia visiting Vermont from New York in June, Yale seniors receiving awards in St Johnsbury, James E. Burke sworn in as Bremington mayor after a court decision, water shortages affecting Vermont Marble Co. quarries, Otter Creek low water tests, and power concerns at Chittenden. Also notes deaths of Wheeler at Cox Brook from diphtheria and the Baldwin family details, plus brief mentions of King of Cambodia portraits, Victor Emmanuel coin project, Cypress trees longevity, and local ads.
Winnie O Connor tops the List In France as the star jockey. Philadelphia awarded the national polo championship for late June. Archie Hahn of Michigan Univ touted as the coming sprinting sensation. Young Corbett and Terry McGovern teamed up as pals. Jake Beckley of the Reds credited with a triple play in Brooklyn. Veteran golfers complain of rising young prize grabbers and seek age limits. Jock Wille Shaw let go. Pittsburg Phil Smith to sell the stable. Alexander Winton of Cleveland halves a world circular track auto record on Grenville course. Jeffries invites famed French noblemen to his cab. H R B Thomas, financier who bought Hermia, was New York bank president for a day. Britons’ Pachting interests to base at American waters with Shamrocks and Lipton party.
Professor Scripture of Yale University tours the United States in a special railway carriage with photographic apparatus. He plans first to visit Indian tribes and then the poorer white communities of the South and forefentern populations to obtain sport mens of every Malet spoken.
Dr. G Christy of Liverpool Bethool of Tropical Medicine, part of a British Foreign Office commission, returns from Uganda with findings on sleeping sickness. He traced a large district where the disease raged without filaria, while Dr Castellani identifies a minute bacterium as the cause. The condition ravages South Kavirondo and shores of Victoria Nyanza, spreading not by ordinary person-to-person transmission.
A compact reader of editorial quips from multiple papers. It cites opinions from New York World Philadelphia Press Chicago Tribune Kansas City Star and New York Commercial on politics crime colonial stance and religious violence. The item underscores varied views on societal decay and international affairs.
A note explains that whistling during a rehearsal in theater signals a forthcoming dismissal. The practice is described as a form of piping out a company member, with no counteracting remedy presented.
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