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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
6
A Barre advertisement urges readers to insure their lives now by contacting the National Life Insurance Company agent in Barre Vermont. It emphasizes addressing current conditions and avoiding future worry about potential events and risks.
A garbled ad style notice lists local buys and services including jewelry offers Burr the Jeweler, a typewriter desk and swivel chair for sale, and various names and addresses. The piece blends florid, uncertain notices and oblique personal references in a late 19th or early 20th century local page.
The notice lists Cloth All Wool and Paint All Paint as cheaper than shel dy cloth or shally. It mentions T. & M. Jane metal oxide zinc process and linseed oil, with coats priced at 120 dollars, from Plainfield and Montpelier paint agents Barrows and Bee among others.
Williamstown clerks report J Sagel and Co Barry will clear out the Lynde estate clothing wreck over about two weeks while J K Lynde firm reorganizes its distribution.
In Randolph a pupil at the primary school has a light scarlet fever spell, with delayed medical notice. The illness spread prompts action as more family members fall sick. State health officials may investigate and advise on suppression of the prevalent illness.
Mrs. John Hall of South Cabot died Sunday morning after a lengthy illness. Born November 17, 1828 in Trashing, she was a devoted wife and mother, survived by two brothers Tuxcal Lana and Steven, her husband, two sons Ray and Dighton, and many relatives. The funeral was held at her home Tuesday at 10 am with interment at Lower Cabot Cemetery. Numerous relatives and friends attended from Marshfield, Haverhill, Maines, Reanhem, and Lower Cabot.
L. H Hooker of Barro Vermont praises Don's Kidney Pills saying they relieved long kidney pain and backache after eight years of trouble. He urges readers to follow the testimonial and buy the 50 cent remedy from Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo New York, noting Don’s as the only recommended brand.
The report describes two Moros sisters? brothers killed in their beds while asleep in a hut during a geological survey. The attackers, two Moros whose father was slain years earlier by Spaniards, seek revenge against whites. Tekiel appears as a name, with Creston Ta noted.
Washington report states Gaston P. Philip a civil engineer and clubman from New York and Washington was acquitted by a jury in criminal court No. 2 after a night of revelry preceding a fatal shooting. The cab driver Frank Macaboy allegedly pressed a gambling debt of 160 on Philip and demanded a dice game to recover the money, leading to a confrontation at Arlington Hall where Philip fired, fearing injury.
In Richford the old Line House was sold at auction after U S court condemnation. Judge James L. Martin ordered the structure torn down and records this as Vermont’s first government condemnation sale of a house.
Frost on the river Wednesday morning accompanies local farming notes. Mrs. EB C Vigh completed constructing a new barn last Friday. Dean Mlodgett traveled from Bt Johnsbury over the weekend. Mr Ayben, a supply for the Congregational church, visited with J M Fisher. B Madgett attended the C E gathering in Berlin on Tuesday and Wednesday.
President Roosevelt narrowly escaped serious injury after a horse threw him into a rocky creek at Hock Creek Park. Mrs Roosevelt and Sergeant Cornelius Minott accompanied him as the skittish horse plunged through swift water. The incident occurred in the late afternoon as they rode from the White House grounds with McDermott guiding the saddle horse.
New York on June 4 Theodore P. Bietsapaal declares the death of his son in law, the Duke de Chaulnes, due to opiate indulgence. He refutes reports of addiction and harshly criticizes newspapers for printing alleged details of the manner of death. The Duke collapsed after an afternoon carriage ride and died before aid could arrive.
New Orleans June 4 The south observed the 100th birthday of Jefferson Davis with appropriate exercises across states including Kentucky Florida Alabama Mississippi Tennessee South Carolina Louisiana and Virginia. Louisiana marked it as a legal holiday and New Orleans dedicated a site for a monument to Davis as part of the public celebration.
Washington note reports the employer liability act applied to District of Columbia commerce after a Court of Appeals decision in Hyde v Southern Railway. Mrs Hyde sought $20,000 damages for Richard Hyde's death as an employee of the company.
Baton Rouge La four members attended a joint judiciary committee meeting of the Louisiana House yesterday. The panel favorably reported a bill to prohibit bookmaking and gambling at race tracks. Twenty seven of twenty two members present supported the measure, aimed at ending a winter gambling scourge in New Orleans.
The newly built Vin e liner Tenyo Maru departs Yokohama on her maiden voyage bound for San Francisco amid reports of a Transpacific record. The vessel plans to carry a cargo of 400 tons and aims to surpass previous records.
A garbled excerpt quotes Tester M. Nelson of Nay Maine claiming a long used new discovery saved his life. The text shows distorted phrases about thinking the discovery saved someone and mentions renting and public ad in Walon.
Washington reports a wage cut on Queen and Crescent, Southern, and Mobile and Ohio railroads will not start until July after talks between Interstate Commerce Commission head, Labor Commissioner Charles P. Nellan and railroad officials. Louisville and Nashville and Atlantic Coast Line were not part of the agreement as they withdrew from arbitration weeks earlier.
Report from a Cincinnati conference shows metal working trades favor forming a metal crafts department within the American Federation of Labor, mirroring the building trades department and signaling a trend toward consolidated labor forces.
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