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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1908
Page
6
A tempered ad quotes Mr Norman HB Coulter praising Blortris Bitters as a prompt and efficient remedy for stomach liver and kidney disorders. The copy sells the medicine at 50 cents a bottle, claiming it purifies the body and strengthens the system.
The undersigned offer MB phiks the bang and 6 cent and 26 cent bottles of Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tar with a money back guarantee if cough or cold persists. Ted Cross Pharmacy and listed partners promise public considerations, meeting trains and continued service.
Fruit store for sale including fruit confectionery cigar and tobacco shop in Springfield Vermont. Includes wagon bogey sleigh horse and two harnesses a four room tenement horse shed and barn. Everything leased for 25 dollars monthly. Write to Jot Baldassaro Springfield Vermont.
A bold note advertises Osborne's Store offering first class groceries with low prices and quality consistent service. The message promises best goods and treatment to attract customers.
The Barre Daily Times notes a bridge of insurance for those dependent on it. Entry is within reach today for the last time this year. National Life Insurance Company with agents in Barre and Montpelier advertise plans and local representation by W N Ballard in Barre.
A collection of short local items includes shop listings at Youngson's and values on furniture, a church concert by William Robertson at the Presbyterian church on Friday March 27, notices for a clairvoyant show, a Congregational church men’s supper on April 1, a central office room for rent, and several tenement rental notices on Main Street.
Chelsea Herbert Holmes and Karl Clement visit town on Monday and Sunday respectively. J Oliver Porkeay, J. H. Baraw, and Harry N. Sanborn conduct business in Marre City. Mrs. Fred V. Dunham remains under medical care. A range of locals return from trips, horses change hands, and several residents encounter minor accidents. The D A Perry agency advertises property sales. Church notices include a March 28 social with speakers on liberal Christianity. The Orange County hotel hosts many arrivals from surrounding towns.
Local names including Scott, Dwinell, Leonard, Wheeler, Bliss, Brown, Guernsey, Linman, Philip, Austin, Lenvent, Davita, Mortpelle, Felch, Alteworth, Templars, and Peck are noted in East Calais Cabot Plainfield Montpelier and Marshfield. Mentions of illness travel and visits occur across towns with several in town on Monday Thursday and Friday events.
The article details Deacon Washburn’s pioneering role in Vermont Sunday schools, beginning around 1804 and culminating in the 1817 Moral society decision and the 1817 event of early Sunday schooling. Rev. P. B. Fisk researches Washburn’s legacy, leads to a memorial canes sale, and a monument funded by donations, to be unveiled this summer and dedicated to the Sunday school movement’s founder and era.
Random bits of social news from Randolph describe residents traveling, hosting guests, and family events. Mr Krank Kerr returns to Thechester. Mes James Andon heads to Gayeville as guest to her parents. Miss Linn Miner and others visit White River and White Cross Mite for community activities amid illnesses and local duties.
Reading through Topsham and nearby communities, snippets include wedding and birth notes, illness updates, and daily life events. The new year brings social visits, homecoming, chores, and family milestones noted around town, with several residents named in brief health and occupation mentions.
A Tarre Virginia man recalls severe left kidney pain and backache eased by Doan's Kidney Pills from AL Brown druggist in Buffalo. He credits relief to the pills after trying many medicines with little benefit and urges others to remember the Doan's name for urinary distress cures.
Garage Company incorporated in Vermont with headquarters at St Johnsbury to engage in general automobile and motor vehicle business. Capital stock 5000 divided into shares. Subscribers include W J Aldrich Pith OC T Ranket G S Weight F S Landry Cramton Be Blossom J M Allen and J B Guild of St Johnsbury.
Bruant Thompson Seton explains in American Magazine that wolves adapt to traps and poisons as knowledge spreads among them. A simple iron object on a carcass, like a horseshoe or spur, deters wolves and prevents predation. Poisoned bait loses effectiveness as wolves discover its danger, while cattle and calves face renewed predation later in the year as wolves regain numbers and spread across the cattle country.
The passage lists regions labeled as gardens by era writers and diplomats. It assigns the garden of Europa to France and Italy and Belgium, Sicily to Italy and Spain to An dolueia, India as the diverlet, and Glamorganshire as the garden of Hoath Wales. The piece contrasts geographic pride with a quip about silence and a dentist.
Fragmentary text shows a reader’s garbled lines about Mysteries of Marta, a man named Winthrop, and a bowtie. The passage includes disjointed quotes and unclear attributions, with no clear events or outcomes to report.
A bookkeeper in Warsaw awaiting trial for fraud received delicacies from his family. A large iced cake hid a revolver and seven cartridges. The warder and family faced danger as the cake was cut open, revealing a plan to shoot the guards and escape. The warder mused that honesty is not always best.
Excerpts from Queer Things About Persia describe brutal practices including crucifixion and walling up alive, while noting Persian courtesy. The text cites sensational views on torture, tyranny, and a tolerance for lying, claiming Persians relish blood and cruel outcomes.
Chicago Records Hetati notes a puzzled remark about changing conditions from night to dawn. The quotation hints at a broader cultural or linguistic blunder and suggests a playful context in a historical paper.
Chicago Inter Ocean reports Michigan and Washington officers noting nearly four hundred spellings of Ypsilanti. Variants proliferate around the first syllable and even the final letter sees many substitutions as locals, officials, and newspapers test orthographic possibilities.
An Exchange excerpt urges steadfast friendship in dark times. It cautions that those who abandon friends betray hypocrisy and self interest. It stresses sustaining a loved and studied friend in adversity to prove genuine loyalty exists in the heart.
A fragmentary United Kingdom clipping cites a public examination quip about King Alfred’s views on universal suffrage and printed books if alive today. It remarks that even a living Alfred would be too old to care. The item includes garbled remarks about modern writers and a Washington Star reference.
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