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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1909
Page
6
An Advert promises a variety of brass craft items from patina finished pieces to picture frames. It invites readers to visit the workshop, view new work, and obtain a descriptive booklet detailing products and pricing from as low as one dollar.
Sweltering housewives urged to buy bakery goods at low prices. The ad touts plain raised doughnuts at 10 cents a dozen, sweet doughnuts 10 cents a dozen, jelly doughnuts 12 cents a dozen, graham bread 10 cents a loaf, baked bears 12 cents a quart, and brown bread 6 cents a loaf, with fresh daily production and availability at grocers on Saturday morning.
Local bakery promotes old fashioned ginger snaps and brown loaf amid hot weather. Fresh stock includes orange pies and beane offerings. Saturday morning sale highlights a pleon of one few to rightapot with notable pricing and proximity to the shop.
The Barre Daily Times notes timetable changes for Central Vermont Railway and the Montpelier & Wells River Railroad. Abney Electric Street Railway plans to run cars, with a nightly Montpelier to Wells River route leaving Montpelier at 10 p.m. and continuing to Harrée and Mun. The text outlines adjusted departure times and service coverage for the evening schedule.
The readable fragment mentions National Life Insurance Company Vermont Mutual and named individuals in a disjointed sale or notice. The text is garbled with phrases about attendance and a dated reference, rendering full meaning unclear but indicating a formal notice or declaration from an insurance context.
A jumble of items includes a public survey on telephone use and a plug for Burdock Blood Bitters with health claims. It also notes exams for free tuition in second area schools set for Thursday and Friday, October 24 and 25, in Morse and East Montpelier.
We have new stock from New York featuring price cuts on children and men’s wear. Highlights include $1.50 children’s odd coats 90c and $1.75 children’s suits $1.25. Boys’ knee pants 19c pair. Men’s summer and worsted suits cut from $26 to $16 and $12.50, with further reductions to $3.50 for select items. Visit now for extra special bargains on suits.
ALEX COREY and CO. takes a stance against Jack's Lunch Room at Depot Square, highlighting competing interests and local business dynamics in a concise city notice.
Fragmented local items report court actions and social notices from Montpelmer. A New York man is awarded 81000 in a property matter, while a divorce or child support dispute is referenced with a bail amount of 100. The piece also mentions marriages at a Methodist parsonage, and the State Auditor denying a bill related to justice department accounts amid a broader set of municipal legalities.
East Calais and nearby towns share a string of brief visits with residents seen in Montpelier Hardwick and Lake Caspian engagements. Names include Beattix Carley Tanner Ewen Laurence Meader Wheat Woodbury Dwinell Wing Eastman Scott Bancroft Pierce Te attended by family and neighbors in a typical community roundup.
A fragmentary 19th century style note describes the rise of the Little Brown Tent, its appeal for campers, and shifting preferences from white to brown canvas. It envisions tents on river shores and lake edges, with crowds signaling a seasonal migration and evolving shelter fashions for open-air life.
Bids are invited for the construction of a two story wooden building to house a new school in the town of Batre Vinne per specifications obtainable from A. W. Allen. Bids must be submitted to the commissioners J. B. Firepatrick and I. Day by the stated deadline.
Williamstown reports the fourteenth annual senalen meeting of the Merchants of Elijah held June 28. Attendees numbered twenty four with names listed. A bountiful dinner, photographs, and a witness meeting followed. Two marriages and one birth reported in the year. Fannie S. Was elected president and Nellie Sargent secretary. The group adjourned to meet at the president’s call. Various local notes include visits, church service, and university events.
Randolph residents and visitors are chronicled in a scattered report noting Mrs. Jang Spear bay ill, Mr. and Mrs. A J Bell returning from a White Mountains trip, and several locals visiting relatives in Warren, Morgan Park, and Brockfield. The item mentions land deals, cottage openings, hospital news, and routine social visits across Randolph, Brookfield, and nearby towns.
Senator Beveridge denounces postwar tobacco taxes as excessive in effect, alleging trust profits and corporate evasion. He traces origins to prewar and war tax policies, argues manufacturers kept wartime taxes after repeal, shifting burden to consumers while declaring vast capitalization in American Tobacco Company vast and water. He cites proposed revenue gains of 21,000,000 and criticizes amendments aimed at limiting government income.
We pay outside prices for beef hides horse hides sheep pelts bellies bones and more and cover freight and full market value. We seek agents in every village lacking representation to collect goods and sell Page's Perfected Poultry Food and other poultry supplies. We furnish money to buy and keep buyers posted on market values. Page Hyde Park Vermont.
D F Davis the Druggist at 262 North Main Street Barre warns that many so called Castile soaps are made from slaughterhouse refuse and washing soda. He touts pure olive oil based Castile soap with no free alkali, suitable for babies, and offers Monarch Brand Castile soap in 6 and 10 cent cakes along with a full line of bath and toilet soaps.
The town informs Bass taxpayers of a tax list including one dollar and seventy cents, a forty cents levy for town tax, a ninety cents school tax, and a seven day grace period from the notice date. Payment by September 17, 1900, is required to avoid further penalties. Town Treasurer W. I. Barro issues the notice on June 1, 1200 A D.
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