This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 7 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1903
Page
4
The Burlington Free Press notes Barre voters approved a highway tax to fund street improvements. It praises Barre’s well kept avenues and urges further work to raise overall street quality to match Burlington and Havre’s schools and public facilities.
Reports detail a potato crop setback at Mehmond on the Georg Pig farm with beds sprouting poorly. A Rutland railroad freight conductor Engene Wiley was badly injured after being run over at Dorset and may lose a leg. A Wingoski resident James O Donnelly died in a kerosene lamp accident involving his wife’s clothes. Vermont fires and a Day of Judgment scare are noted in Randolph. I Speare completes a large barn frame for Charley Colby in East Orange, valued around 3000 dollars, and plans another barn for Mrs Elijah Magoon of Corkoth.
An ad promotes a store offering ready to wear suits from 5.00 to 20.00 and custom made suits from 40.00 to 50.00, emphasizing personal attention for all sizes and shapes and New England workmanship.
Fragmented OCR notice lists hammocks, ice cream freezers, window screens and rugs for sale at a bargain store. Mentions B W Hooker Co and Veale Knight with various items and proposed sales events, noting store hours and Friday night openings.
A fragmentary page note from the Atlanta Journal features playful quips and misprinted phrases about hope, soap, and sleep. It includes dialog snippets on hearing, a line on debts expanding with contraction, and a column tease from Town Top and Washington Post style musings.
The Vaughan Store announces a Friday and Saturday special on ladies unders garments including corset covers night robes short skirts and chemises. Items are from Peerless Manufacturing Company with prices shown as regular and sale figures and no exchanges or returns at sale prices.
The entry notes Moore and Owens at 422 North Main Street in Barre Vermont as a street address reference for the business or listing.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.