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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1908
Page
6
Fruit and confectionery cigar and tobacco store in Springfield offered for sale complete with wagon buggy sleigh horse two pair harness a four room tenement horse shed and barn all leased for 25 dollars monthly contact Waite to Joe Baldassaro Springfield Vermont for details
A period-style advertisement promotes Osborne's Store offering first class groceries with quality goods and consistent low prices. The note asserts the store provides the best of goods and treatment, inviting customers to shop for value.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference daily notices from March 20 1903 involving an insurance agent National Life Insurance Company and a local agent in Barre. Readable items mention names Fat Man and Wallard with unclear context about solicitations or invitations.
The notice lists sales at Youngson's and Baldwin typewriter desk offers, a clairvoyant schedule, and real estate rentals on Main Street. It notes the Barre Golf club annual meeting for March 18, a musical at 6 North Street, and several social events at local churches with prices and times. The Canadian Jubilee Singers and Imperial Orchestra perform March 25, and a Ladies Missionary social sells ice cream and candy on March 20.
Mrs J P ite of Rushborn declares the medicine saved her life curing lung trouble. She praises its quick cough relief and claims it treats coughs colds and asthma. The remedy is advertised at Red Crom Lane for 50 and 1.00 trial bottle offered.
In the March American Magazine Professor W. T. Thomas of Chicago University discusses the psychology of the yellow journal. He argues the public mind is childish, drawn to sensational tales, murder trials, and cheap magazines. He notes a mass interest in material with minimal artistic presentation and urges awareness of media influence.
Local school notes reflect Randolph Misa Mary Du Bolt’s twelve years teaching at Ran High School, with comments on the coming year and staff changes. Visitors, retirements, and health-related travels of area residents are also mentioned, including Mrs Thatcher in Northfield and Mrs Joslyn’s Winchester trip. Community updates cover plant openings, syrupmaking, millinery, and a downstate hospital operation affecting Mrs Herbert Abbey, with business shifts at Vail & Do Bais and Cranville restaurant plans.
A town social and prom night is announced with plans for a Heseneer ball and a supper. Mrs Van McAllister visited from Tonbridge, and Universalist Society ladies will provide supper. A sleigh accident near the pond involved Dr Hurley but no injuries. The town mourns the death of Mr Tutor and records a funeral remembrance with prayers and support messages.
A damaged notice announces a public warning from Red Crow Pharmacy and partners offering a 25 cent remedy with a guarantee to cure cough or provide a refund. The fragment references Tar if it fails to cure and mentions Greene's Warranted of Tar. The text is garbled but implies a consumer protection notice in a local context.
An advert row promotes a rapid cure for acrotide and erysipelas fever symptoms. It claims strong results and mentions Mitts SH and 5. Ofeiment, with a guaranteed sale via DF Tevtes. The legibility is limited but portrays a patent remedy pitch.
Farmers are urged to send a centuh postal card to Rand 10 C and Page Hyde Park with the words Send fertilizer formulas as advertised in the News and Citizen. Free postpaid information on honey-made fertilizers from Haglan.
March reports from St Petersburg say Dr Kara valef, a loser in the Second Douma, was shot at his home in Ekaterinoslav by two assailants. Revolt letters warned his death, and rebels claim further violence linked to the reactionary League of the People. A revolutionary fire damaged the home of AL Valoshky, a local leader, injuring him and a family member.
Up to late Wednesday night Gev ert Smirnoff had not been operated on after a pistol shot in a central hit. Doctors planned Roentgen-ray examination before bullet extraction. They stated there is no reason for alarm and the patient is cheerful.
Reports from Moscow state Count lao Televot is very ill with fainting spells and lingering unconsciousness after a suspected stroke. Two police officials left Moscow for Yasnaye Potyana where he resides. His daughter, iiclaw, in Rt. Sen, says she has heard nothing and dismisses the reports as exaggerated.
The article explains the use and cost of curled hair mattresses on plate glass wagons. It notes prices from 60 to 75 dollars for a mattress on a wagon table, 20 to 25 dollars for replacement covers, and discusses the design to prevent glass breakage during transport and loading. It also recounts older methods of moving large panes to store fronts and mentions practice changes with wagon setups. It ends with a snippet about exercising dogs and a brief quote from a shopper column.
A memoir-style vignette recounts a morning ride in early April aboard a bus where a courteous old Black man shares a seat and banjo memories of plantation days. The narrator rewards his courtesy with a silver gift and later receives arbutus flowers from the same kind stranger, recalling bygone Virginia.
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt recounts a conductor reproving a man who races a car at rush hour. The man explains the rush is needed to supply oxygen to repair chest strain from rapid heart action, while the conductor urges caution.
The text compiles a series of quirky phrases and snippets from various sources, including a London tale about Little Bobby and a mother's concern, a railway porter joke, and remarks on wit and conversation. It reads like a collage of antiquated humor and clipped dialogues with scattered references to literature and everyday scenes.
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