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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1908
Page
3
A tale threads a southern beauty and a West Point cadet through college memories and a string of rings from past suitors. Years later they meet again after marriages, with a charged, restrained reunion that reveals faded love and memory.
A Texas Steer revival opens in Philadelphia with a stock company. May Buckley leads Indy stock in Dover this summer. J E B Dodson plans a stage return in a Hartley Manners play. Fritel Schoff to present a new act in Chicago next season. William Rock and Maud Fulton plan a musical comedy season under Charles Dillingham with The Warrens of Virginia starring Frank Keenan and Charlotte Walker. a recent successful weapon closure in New York noted.
Health hints advise talking as a good form of exercise for heart disease sufferers. Lord Avebury cites five world’s priorities good will good water good food good health and good conscience as affordable. A German pigmelln reports relief from regulated daily lukewarm baths. Budapest doctors identify the typhus microbe spread by fleas and parasites.
The 1907 year surpassed all prior years in output of cars and locomotives. A $20,000,000 terminal station was planned for steam and electric transit in San Francisco. Open switch failures were eliminated at many points on the Pennsylvania Lines east of Pittsburgh and Erie during the four-year period. The New York Central advances include track and electrical improvements from the Grand Central area to Harlem and to White Plains on the Harlem Line, with broader electric operations planned along major routes.
The fragment hints at a dessert query with cryptic phrases about eel tea and a recipe style. It mentions preparing for four large meals, possible references to bearers and blends, and notes on feed laws, all in a garbled, OCR-like format. The readable parts suggest a quirky, unfinished food item column.
Chicago June 17. The convention opened amid strong factional tension as administration supporters clash with conservatives over the platform. Elliss and Wade Ellis face intraparty attacks while Cannon and Roosevelt allies push to shape the creed.
Amoy China June 17 Opium dens in the international settlement faced closure after a platform resolution ordered removal within a set period. Delegates, numbering seven hundred, planned to vote for Taft as the move aimed to curb opium trade and smoking in urban centers.
A historic city elevator at Thirteenth Street and the river in Chicago was destroyed in a spectacular blaze. The fire drew an immense crowd of more than 200000 visitors, with hotels and transit systems reporting heavy traffic as people watched the towering flames light the night sky. Police and residents set off alarms from a half mile radius as the blaze, described as the biggest crowd seen at a five in Chief Seiferlich’s 25 years, raged alongside efforts to raze the structure for river widening. The generator roared and the roof collapsed during the blaze.
Colorado's ten votes are instructed at the state convention to cast ten votes for W. J. Bryan for president. The instruction remains in force while Bryan's name is before the convention.
James Ryan aged 11 lives on West Fifty second Street and Ninth Avenue. At the children's court Judge Olmstead sentences him to work at the rectory for two years after a parole violation for breaking into a rationery store on Tenth Avenue. The judge notes a bad record with prior incidents including theft of whiskey and school conduct. The mother faints as Ryan mutters about graft everywhere.
Noted for the Ville de Bruges sinking on the Congo upper river last May, six Europeans died with four reportedly eaten by hostile locals. The disaster also claimed about seventy African deaths as survivors reached shore amid chaos and conflicting reports.
Washington reports confirm the White House plans to release a statement on William Howard Taft s religion. The document traces Taft s family links to Unitarian groups through his grandfather and great grandfather, noting prior affiliations with Unitarian societies.
Albany sets forth a tangle of misstatements as Hughes Fetterday claims poor health and delayed communications with Witciepatric after a Monday reply to Herbert Parsons. The governor, en route to New Albany, plans to attend a Brown University commencement and head to Albany tomorrow.
The sophomore reading prize event at Norwich University occurred last night in Dewey Hall. Winners include James Larkin, $15 in gold, George W. Dillea, and Guy K. Th. Judges were Supt. Erick J. Brownscombe, Hollister Jackson, and Rev. Lucius Reed. The college orchestra gave several selections, and tonight the senior concert is slated as a standout entertainment.
A collection of brief items highlights women achieving distinction and influence. Mrs J Pierpont Morgan favors a victoria and motor car. Miss Gertrude Wren seeks the Pereira chemistry medal. Marie Spiridonova, escaping Siberia, draws global sympathy. Mile Jeanne Laloe runs for nine French arrondissements. Mrs Sara Skillings of Gorham keeps a spring cage visitor routine. A famed blind reader works at the post office, deciphering illegible addresses and linking to notable figures.
Irrigation expands oases in the Solara desert and Europe reportedly holds about 3,000,000 caged birds. Regent's Park houses the anthropoid ape collection in London as a moat is noted. A Belgian peasant named Newart is jailed for slicing fruit on his pear tree to deter theft. The republic of Breet grows larger than assumed, Minas Ge mes state bigger than Germany with 9,600,000 inhabitants. Potters are urged to move there amid offers. A German education minister once urged publishers to donate medical books to the German Medics college, yielding about 6,000 volumes valued at 914,000.
The excerpt references a lively exchange about the stage and high society in New York. It hints at expense and spectacle around performances like The Merry Widow, with remarks on leisure and automotive pursuits, capturing a bustling urban scene.
The text critiques demagogues and praises the Open Shop publication as a forum for employer employee education. It contrasts two demagogue lines, labels labor leaders as respectable when elevating workers, and exposes Open Shop’s stated aims to inform workers and employers about labor questions with cautious skepticism.
A verbose critique from the Shoe Workers' Journal attacks labor agitators and Gompers while defending unions and the right of workers to organize. It condemns the resort to vagrancy laws and court actions as tools of capital, and cites contemporaries to illustrate opposing views on open shops and protection of workers.
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