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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1906
Page
6
The notice advertises a circulating library with ten cent entry for borrowing books from a wide selection. Ten day loans apply to works like horrow er Wo and hook dor and a free hook frte for the borrower who pays. It promotes latest books and popular fiction and history as standard offerings.
An advertisement from Barre Vermont promotes savings and life insurance plans by The National Life Insurance Company of Vermont. It claims guarantied accounts and long term benefits, naming agents L. Ballard and residing at Miles Block, Barre.
Fragments note classified ads and notices including prices for baby carriage oil stove lenses real estate and rent offers. Mentions a Percheron stallion in Graniteville and repairs of sewing machines. Also references Doan's ointment and Dr Thomas remedies with local business names and street addresses.
Lower Cabot reports a new line of telephone poles to be installed by Molly Falls Telephone Co transferring from electric halt poles to improve line reliability. Notable movements include residents John Dilton Montgomery visiting relatives and Pliny Smith at Wolf Rogers in Cabot. The town also notes residents visiting Montpelier and Port Henry with several illnesses cited.
A notice from Montpepier Vic Janet and Marie W Whitepai warns of patent litigation linked to a polishing wheel and related parts. It asserts continued supply to customers, defends patent rights, and denies fear among buyers while claiming a superior, newly patented machine remains on the market.
East Calais reports Meene Hawkins and spouse taking an outing at the Caspian with George Guernsey ill for weeks. Frank Bailey’s cattle sale to Sain Daniels of Hardwick valued at 3000 dollars. Congregational and Congregational-Methodist memorial services planned for Rev. Frank Southworth with Dr Merrill officiating. Local church elections and fellowship events noted with neighborly visits and personal notices.
In Graniteville New York on June 9 Margaret Fairbach aged sixty eight was mortally injured after an on farm incident with her husband Edward Fairbach who had been separated for a year following quarrels over a prior marriage. He fled the home after the act and is said to have previously driven away his wife. Investigators say no one else was harmed as neighbors describe a quiet life before the tragedy.
Theatrical figures announce replacements and openings across musical comedies in London and New York. Thomas Q. Seabrooke leaves Mexicana, Louis Harrison steps in. Roosevelt and Wilhelm spoofed in Bonnn’s The Vree Lance. Edna May rehearses a new musical comedy in London with Charles Frohman presenting her at the Vaudeville Theater. Hattie Williams stars in The Rollooking Girl and appears in a pen musical comedy The Little Cherub. WW Sothers and Julia Marlowe may perform Tristan and Isolde. Sothern seeks Arthurian knight role while Marlowe aims to portray an Irish princess.
The article notes the French cruiser Ernest Renan and comments on Franco German mobilization. It describes the German horse and artillery mobilization, the Japanese conscription system with only twenty five of the strongest selected, and a London debate over whether the war department or navy should buy and operate airships. A proposed national defense ministry concept, the “avratty,” is mentioned.
Catalogue style advertisement touts charms for women focusing on bright eyes glowing cheeks red lips and perfect health with smooth skin. Offered with every Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea package for 35 cents by D F Davis and E A Drowa.
In a Westchester borough police court the suspect faced $1,000 bail on a felonious assault charge after officers battered a door and a struggle ensued. A woman injured near the heart suffered internal bleeding as others attempted to escape the spreading gunfire, with shots fired at several bystanders before the assailant fled.
A parade of curiosities and oddities spans public life from Mayor McClellan signing with quill pens to Secretary Shaw with a visitor-crank alarm. Explorers Dillon Wallace and Joseph Chamberlain receive attention for feats and anniversaries while mentions of Brownlow kinship and Milne the seismologist accompany notes on rare voting patterns and currency expert Jones H. Vassar.
A fragmented, archaic sounding passage describes solitary eating habits of a fictional group the Maldivian Inlanders. It references retiring to hidden spots, drawn blinds, and fears linked to pride and sewage concerns in days past. The text is unclear and contains many garbled terms.
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