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Newspaper
Barre Evening Enterprise
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1898
Page
3
A playful Chicago Record piece extols Fanchon's chafing dish and culinary prowess. It mingles homage and humor as diners savor oysters croquettes and omelets, praising Panchon as a goddess of steam whose dishes thrill men and maids alike.
A child named George longed for a bicycle and prayed through the week before his birthday. On the morning he found a beautiful new wheel by his bedside, with his mother entering to see Jim admiring it and joking that the Lord would not refuse this time.
A selection of brief items notes a census finding youth marriages in Algeria with many brides and grooms under twenty including young widows and divorcees. It also mentions a dramatic exchange about a ring with a distant clerk, revealing a cool response to a gentleman’s question about value.
A 19th or early 20th century magazine fragment debates vaccination and vivisection. It argues that fear and sentiment override rational, evidence based conclusions, noting the perceived costs to infants and animals versus societal benefits from medical progress. It criticizes antivaccination and antivivisection stances as emotionally driven and not reasoned.
In a Pittsburgh Dispatch blurb a half hour sitting leads to a high stakes five card draw with a $50 pot. Frank bets with three kings and wins as others show pairs and tens. The group jests over luck while cards reveal near full houses and tense bets in a smoky room.
The Pall Mall Gazette notes a suit of five reeiox in the oil castle at Lerlin occupied by kes rs werdrebes. A dedicated tailor handles repairs in a sixth room while gloves, orders, and decorations are kept in a secure ion safe valued around 1,500,000 marks.
In a manufacturing town two rival workers vie to outbuild each other with better homes. A asks a famed architect to outdo rival A, while locals joke about battleships versus cruisers, a donkeyish quest for knowledge, and curious quips from city papers and daily life.
In France the element of suspicion shaped actions from Richelieu’s era to Napoleon. The piece traces how preternatural distrust influenced leaders and events, from Versailles to the guillotine, noting Robespierre’s rise and fall as a peak of the terror driven by suspicion.
The fragment cites the New York directory for 1812, naming a Peter Coupir machinist at 8 Elm Street. It threads odd phrases about a modern celebrity and a crime remark, then veers into a London housing image and a speculative England quote.
An Atlanta Constitution piece recounts how Senator Aaron Burr of New York stopped to mend a horse and discovered a roadside boy who drew his curricle. Burr funded the youth’s education and the artist later painted Burr and his daughter Theodosia, becoming a noted if flawed figure in a tale of talent found and ambitions tested.
The Philadelphia Inquirer explains how golf terms derive from Icelandic Gaelic and Swedish roots. It traces tee from old Norse and Icelandic sources, windings from Swedish lyota, and loft from Irish loft, noting the game’s jargon echoes ancient language.
A rambling tale recalls Velcrad without a pension a sergeant who knew horses and history and a condemned old horse named Pansy. A boyish shot ends the horse's life in a hill valley, sparking later public fuss and mystery. Nearby scientific notes discuss Toronto observatory instruments moved away due to electric currents. Also included are old advertisements for tobacco cessation and skin remedies.
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