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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1908
Page
7
Rome learned today that the engagement of the Duke of the Abruss to Miss Elkin is confirmed. The Duke's telegram brought great joy to the royal household as news was received with happiness.
The livery stable on Main St Barre has been sold to Messrs Jones and McMillan and will be modernized. It offers safe horses and competent drivers for weddings funerals and transient hire with carriages and surrey for trains. Boarding space available with expert care at usual rates.
Gasoline engine in good condition listed for sale along with polishing machines and tools. Includes a power capstan and hoisting machine, offered at a very reasonable price either separately or as one lot.
The estate of Inte Dr. I W Broley must sell thirteen shares of the People's National Bank of Barre to close the estate. This is desirable stock and interested parties should apply at once to the undersigned.
A woman explains how a three quarter open two compartment greenhouse, eighteen feet long, can supply tomatoes and lettuce all winter. One compartment grows warm loving flowers while the other concentrates on vegetables. Proper soil and continual fertilization sustain bearing from November through spring.
Practical tips on fertilizing vines and pruning methods for tomato houses. Describes temperatures from 69 to 75 degrees in warm months and 80 to 15 degrees in colder periods. Recommends Early Warwick beans for greenhouse culture and mentions radishes, lettuce towers, and winter harvests. Includes a curious aside about China canals and Ningpo dating back to 400 BCE.
An advertisement touts Pape's Diepopeia as a remedy for indigestion sour stomach and heartburn claiming it digests any food without discomfort. It emphasizes quick results with a claim that fermented foods and digestive trouble are cured fast and promotes a postmeal dose with a sugar candy variant.
A Rutland area item lists retiree about to turn 70 and long journey to California. It also reports a derailment near Middlebury with a hot box, coal cars and delays of a northbound New York sleeper, plus injuries including Dr. Thomas Mean from Milton and a broken glass incident at a breakfast. City clerks record 24 marriages and 439 births in September, detailing ages and birth order.
In Jackson on October 14 a mob lynched two Black men, James and Frank lis, after they shot conductor John C. Kendall on an Illinois Central train from Helena to Memphis. The lynching occurred as passengers urged order following Washington's Mississippi speech, amid a hostile newspaper attack on him.
The Woodbury Granite Company announces its adoption of an exclusive trade mark. It claims past unfair competition aimed at its granite and asserts Bashaw granite as a superior standard. The firm states its mark will signify quality workmanship and the best granite for demanding work.
Frederick Manual of Maryland reports buying four bottles of Newbro's Herpicide at a local shop in Bute Montana on April 4. He claims the product regenerated his bald scalp, restoring thick, luxurious hair and stopping further shedding by destroying the germ causing dandruff and hair loss. Sold via agents with sample offers and price points of fifty cents to one dollar.
Modern nine room French Estate house with hardwood floors, electric lighting, hot air heat, two story plumbing, reception hall and large cellar. Price cut to under 4000 for quick sale. Includes a five room Granite Street cottage with big lot. Also a 100 acre farm with new barn, tools, crops, and space for 15 cows. sugar bush tools included. Located one mile from town on a level road. price 3650 pounds, about 1000 under building cost. sale imminent.
Historic notice offers a six room house with barn and about one acre of land just outside the city limits. Includes a 175 acre farm with stock and tools about three miles from Williamstown. May exchange for other property. Must be sold at once as a money maker.
Two Berlin hunters returned with an unusual albino deer, a 249 pound buck with tall antlers. The white-colored animal will be mounted and presented to the New Hampshire National History Association for display.
A Georgia farmer on rural route 2 named W. A. Fhoyd declares Arnica Salve cured two severe sores on his hand and leg. He would mortgage the farm for more if needed, calling the remedy worth its weight in gold and noting it is available at Rickert & Welle in the local drugstore.
At Osborne’s in East Barre the window advertises 10c goods with a five percent rebate for cash purchases. The message invites customers to inspect stock including men’s underwear stockings shoes overalls and mittens before buying, urging shoppers to come in and view offerings.
Numerous listings describe two tenement houses with 9 rooms, a brick building, and several farms near Graniteville. Prices range around 350 for some parcels, with acreage and fruit orchards noted. Also offered are cottages and a variety of farm assets including hay, wood, cows, and building lots.
A personal estate sale will take place four miles from Barre City and eight miles from Plainfield Village as items are put up for auction. The sale location is described as a treed property along a rural road, with unspecified items including household goods and tools.
E H Kewnipy of Chelsea Vermont offers sweet cider at four cents per gallon. He cautions no guarantee to furnish beyond the current stock due to a short apple crop and the milling period.
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