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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1908
Page
3
A Boonton county tale shows a young farmer duping the Dobson and Cram firm with a bogus tracking scheme. The plan collapses when the farmer discovers his own land yields rich coal, and the partners face a comeback as a grateful, wealthy client profits from their scheme.
The London bishop for 25 years has been a teetotaler. The United Society of Christian Endeavor reports 70 404 societies and about 50 000 members this year. The first Church of England service in Canada was in 1710 as Nova Scotia joined Britain. a bicentenary celebration is planned in 1910. Grand Avenue Methodist in Milwaukee provided autos for a service marking Elder Edwin Hyde’s church anniversary.
Classic theater notes announce Maxine Elliott presenting Clyde Fitch’s new play The Social Guide. Grace Van Studdiford unveils a charity opera The Golden Butterfly. Fidder Selwyn pens Pather and Son to be produced by the Schurberts. Julia Sanderson engaged by Charles Frobman for a London venture. Shealx to star twenty weeks in Vaudeville with a condensed Polls vehicle.
A fragment from a culinary column offers tips on serving Charlotte russe with jelly, adding chopped raisins and nut meats to chocolate cookies, and using a bit of vinegar for flavor. It advises peas to simmer just enough water for proper cooking and suggests salt and a spoonful of baking soda per quart for older beans.
Fragmentary OCR passage mentions Seldon and a scolding by a wife, with stray lines about Master Mary and a rich map behind Lorredrock. The text is garbled, offering few clear facts or names beyond these fragments.
The New York hearings on the Standard Oil case adjourned to Chicago with testimony focusing on refining and transportation. Squires admitted limited knowledge about independent refineries. Kellogg pressed for ownership links between Standard Oil entities. Proceedings will resume in Chicago, then New York, ahead of a St Louis final argument.
Samuel Gompers testified before a congressional committee that he was shadowed by detectives and offered a large bribe to desert the labor movement. He linked the bid to James W. Van Cleave of the National Association of Manufacturers, detailing events in 1907 and subsequent pursuit by detectives. The discussions touched on anti injunction laws, Taft’s platform, and the federation's stance toward manufacturers.
Rathrie Oklahoma September 2 The state banking board has voted to rebate or restore payments to state banks that could benefit from the deposit guaranty scheme. The measure aims to resolve issues raised by the attorney general and concerns the guaranty income versus expenditures. Several banks have converted to state banks, affecting about thirty institutions pending the adopted resolution.
Dr. Lona A Hughes plans retirement to a convent after leading Red Cross Nurses in Boston. Mrs. Durham of Offenham, aged ninety nine, was confirmed by a Worcester bishop after a busy life. Mrs. Bryan’s line traces to Scott Irth ancestry, with English roots on her mother’s side. Mrs. Sloan, an archaeology authority, leads a West Virginia club and state federation. Lucinda Hinsdale Stone’s portrait hangs in Michigan capitol, her work advancing women’s club movement andUniversity of Michigan women.
Glasgow and its suburbs now total about a million residents. Geologists deem New York City highly unlikely to experience a major earthquake. Granite town in Olla requests location of a penitentiary, arguing nearby quarries could employ convicts for ten millennia.
A collage of editorials questions Ameren sports, humor in a spellbinders claim, and a blunt take on election integrity. The snippets cite Los Angeles Times Washington Star and St. Louis Globe-Democrat decrying election fairness and political deceit.
An old classified style note advertises a hair product promising to restore gray hair to its natural color and beauty. It touts stopping hair loss and providing a luxuriant, healthy look with pricing listed, mentioning a cruder mailing offer and a Red Cross Pharmacy reference amid garbled OCR text.
Boston report on Senator Neveriles of Indiana beginning a campaign tour after a Stop at Smile Point Manchester. He plans labor focus speeches across a multistate itinerary including Terre Haute Minneapolis Seattle Portland San Francisco Salt Lake City Kansas Nebraska and Iowa with Chicago stop on October 17 and then campaign to Native and Chinese issues.
In New York a deed records the transfer of a 21 month old baby from its parents to a new couple for $1. Lawyer Lyman E. Warren drafted the document, declaring it legal though the child is not adopted. The infant, Harry Syhn Eugene Lebeuf, becomes the property of Mr and Mrs Ricard under the transaction, the grandparents, with Warren noting the move was for unspecified reasons.
A farmer narrator recalls planting seeds a week ago and tending them daily. He notes checking sprouts, loosening soil, and the misstep of squashing an angle worm while pondering how seeds know their path to growth, quoting a line from Harper's Magazine.
The piece mocks a petty figure and his loud mannerisms as it parodies contemporary street scenes. It references a crossing and a bemused observer who recalls a once familiar voice. It uses sharp, twined imagery to criticize pretentious behavior and social performance.
Paris Sept 25 The German reply to the Franco Spanish note on Morocco was received in Paris with the government surprised by the conciliatory tone. The cabinet plans to meet Germany’s minor reservations in the same conciliatory spirit as the German answer.
Berlin reports Gere many states it will support measures to urge Myla Haid to declare freedom and security of commercial intercourse in Morocco. They will not oppose France and Spain demand for reimbursement of military actions in Casablanca but seek consideration of Morocco finances. The note says the new sultan must provide for the future of Abdul Aziz and former officials.
London editors describe Germany's reply to the Franco Spanish note as cautious with minor qualifications but overall moderate in substance and pacific in tone. They deem the response as giving satisfaction and a restrained stance amid European tensions.
Moscow authorities last week hinted at arms being smuggled into the district for revolutionary activity. For three days officials searched the warehouses of a leading American importing firm in Moscow, opening six thousand cases of typewriters and hardware but found no evidence to substantiate the suspicions.
Helsingfors reports Colonel Mehchay of the Fourth Finnish Sharpshooter battalion killed by a stray bullet during rifle practice. Soldiers of the battalion were placed under arrest. The incident occurred yesterday and authorities classify it as an accident.
San Sebastian reports violinist M. Sarasate who died in Biarritz on September 20 left his famed Stradivarius to the Paris conservatory. The bequest was announced September 25 and confirms the gift to the renowned institution.
Washington Sept 25 shore leave will be denied to Atlantic fleet men when reaching Cavite to coal and clean ships before departing for Yokohama. If cholera is controlled and quarantine set in Manila, sailors may join a later celebration about a month hence when ships reach Manila Day for target practice. divisions will approach via Yokohama and Amoy.
Judge Charles Cottin in Newport Arkansas dismissed the state’s petition against the Briar Mountain railroad, ruling the eight hour provision unconstitutional as it interfered with interstate commerce, and that Congress regulates such matters.
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