Oddities and opinions in a Barre letter from 1920s
A collage of local musings and international observations. The piece lampoons figures like Harding Edison and Rockefeller, notes a Brattleboro audience’s reaction to Georges Carpentier, reflects on Austria and Germany, and warns youths about electric dangers while urging ambition over risk. It blends satirical, patriotic, and geopolitical threads in a single column.
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Harding
Georges Carpentier
United States
Austria
Tyrol
Germany
Weatero
Austin
Guards on Highway Work Fugitives Prompt Public Outcry
A Ruthend News report claims forty state prisoners escaped while on highway labor, forming a gang near the work site. The incident raises debate on how convicts should be restrained when off prison walls, and whether policy should change for gangs of prisoners with varying crimes.
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Ruthend
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Barre Daily Times
Frank’ BE. Uaniley
Pontoffice
Barre
Associated Press
Associated
Ase
Tulsa
Harvey
The
Locomotive Engineers’ Brotherhood
Mr. Edison
Hughes
United States Supreme Court
Moravia
N.Y
John D. Rockefeller
Rutland
Lackawanna
Lehigh
Lattimer
Jeddo
Lehigh Coals
Lackawanna and
Calder & Richardson
Horace A. Richardson
Hits
R. Eastman
EL F. Cutler
James M. Boutwall
F. H. Rogers & Company
Montpelier, Vt
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City of Montpelier
State of
Vermont
George Tl. Blanchard
Ae Saves
Wm Ra
Julius View Z Voumoum
Frank N. Smith
W. G. Nye
Harry Daniels
T. E, Callahan
D. M. Miles Coal Company, Inc
James
J. F. Higgins, Treas, H.N. Sec’y
North Main Street
Telephone
Rogers’ Walk-Over
Boot Shop
Kodaks
Columbia Grafonolas
Russell’s
Red Cross Pharmacy
One
First National Bank of
Vermont Mutual
McAllister & Kent
Berlin
Orange
Montpelier Electric CO
A. W.ace & Co
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