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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1908
Page
5
Our curtain assortment is complete and we will pay cash for curtains. Special values listed at 45c 75 98c 1.25 1.50 2.00 2.50 2.85 3.50 and 4.00. Immediate purchase terms and available stock described.
Local notes report ongoing auction sales for items like long gloves and lace curtains, plus a slate of visitors and daily town events. Names include Edward Bonville of Montreal and George Bowning of Washington with several trips to Burlington and Boston noted. Regular meetings and church activities fill the town calendar with rehearsals and society gatherings.
The notice highlights Lace curtaily and embroideries at Vaughan's with sales on corsets and dog collars from N D Phelps Company. It mentions discounts up to Twenty percent and various goods listed at Mancott and Parisian Lane with prices shown.
Northfield reports a traveling vaudeville troupe arrested after a week of performances in nearby towns. They faced charges for larceny including blankets and sugar from Wid McGlaffin’s sugar house. Harey McKeefe, known from printed bills, received three months at Rutland. Carl Willey pled guilty and paid 18. Frank Porter fined five. Fred Sears, labeled the financial manager, pleaded not guilty and was released after settling hotel costs.
Assistant Judges George G. Easton and J. Frank Rugales agreed on the site for a new 20000 dollar jail in Caledonia County on Gerry street with meetings this week to finalize specifics. The brick building will house steel prisoner apartments and a complex locking system aimed at improving sanitation and security beyond the current jail.
A. P. Abbott & Co. urges shoppers not to economize on hosiery by buying cheaper two for the price. They claim Black Cat Hosiery at 25 cents per pair offers better value than two pairs of ordinary hose, backed by tested quality.
An old advertisement notes heavy oy Boys and Sunday Hose in all sizes of the same grade with lighter weight and finer finish. Prices listed as 2B per unit.
Black Cat Hose advertises Ladies' Lisle Hose in sixes at 25c, Tan and Black hose in all sizes, full fashioned with hand runs, product named Mines. It promotes extra size black Cat No. 600 at 25c and 3 pairs for $1.00, noting strong sales growth in hosiery.
A Pompe river flood overtopped the cofferdam at the Fer dam site across an Alin Cannecti river south of Brattleboro. Water rose to within inches of the cofferdam top, receded, then rose again as contractors evacuated to avoid heavy losses and resume excavation once water subsided.
A report states Mina Gentfroy of Lowell, Mars, died en route on the Montreal express from Joliet, with the body taken to undertaker Turcotte after the accident or incident on the express. The death occurred before the Plymouth Plymouth arrival at Lakeport, with details uncertain.
South Rye gate residents Beaton and Williams Gowie return from Monsen Mass John TD McAltiater announces an auction tomorrow for goods with Mr Hartstiorn involved Miss Anna Beaton resumes teaching near Greentelt John McMillan and his wife, former quarry boarders, sell furniture to Mt Le von and depart town to seek new work
The Northern Pacific railway recently placed an order for 200 refrigerator cars. The report notes accidents in New York City from surface, elevated, or subway cars. Brazil’s president opened 452 kilometers of new railroad as part of a state owned expansion. Pennsylvania Railroad’s annual insurance report cites costs for cigars cigarettes and matches totaling $44,000.
Things Theatrical announces Lee Arthur stages The Undesirable Citizen. Anna Held brings The Parisian Mode to London and Paris. Anella Summerville vaudeville sketch Brain Storms. Francis Witson receives offer for Australia play When Knights Were Bolt. Olga Nethersole praised by exiled contemporary to exterminate critics. Jamon K Hackett may star Mrs Leslie Carter in expurgated Three Weeks.
Industrial items describe Holland with 5,200,000 inhabitants and 1,000,000 wage earners. References to cotton bag production and coal waste imply a booming sector. It claims a large investment around 22,500,000 and employment for about 70,000 people.
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