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Newspaper
Barre Evening Enterprise
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1898
Page
2
The Barre Evening Enterprise reflects on May Day’s sorrowful tone under Spanish conflict and honors in wartime. It lauds General Lee and ex-Union leaders, critiques pacifist cries over pensions, and urges national unity. It notes progress like electric railways and city park improvements while lamenting press rivalries in Spain’s war coverage.
An open letter critiquing Vermont officials over delays in equipping and housing volunteers bound for Burlington camps. The piece cites a sign recruiting at the armory in Spencer Rutles, mourns homesickness, and urges timely provisioning of blankets overcoats and beds for the recruits.
Clifton Hardy Levy outlines how the Bible arose from Abraham in Canaan, Moses penning the Pentateuch, and later prophets and psalms shaping the canon. He notes exile, the Assyrian script revival, and the first century rabbinical council finalizing the Old Testament core.
A Chicago Tribune piece recounts cases of gunshot wounds once deemed fatal, noting a man in Washington Park who survived a heart shot for five months. It covers heart and brain injuries, X rays showing a bullet in Nelson’s heart, and historic episodes like Poole’s fatal after initial recovery.
Two burglars discuss a man and his wife entering a place about an hour ago. The husband supposedly intends to buy his wife a diamond necklace tomorrow. The thieves note the wife will be unable to sleep thinking about it, and the husband will not sleep worrying how to pay.
A Boston tran smuit item notes that about 1 200 tons of Cape Colony feathers have been exported over 80 years, valued at 12 million dollars. The exchange also records social chatter about Mrs Gray and Mrs Greene and their perceived alignments.
A garbled excerpt shows a Detroit Prep Press line and a Washington letter from Chicago Record. It includes a pastor advising harsh moral satire toward a woman's husband and a remark on cost of living comparing London and New York. The tone is arch and pointed.
The article surveys English spelling quirks and punning devices. It cites coffee spelling misleads, odd phrases, and humorous notes sent to a doctor and a schoolmaster. It highlights palindromes like Able was I ere I saw Elba and a Latin motto, with a London Mail note about letter juggling.
A collection of stuffing recipes from English cookery notes. It includes a turkey and chicken stuffing using stale bread with lemon rind, tea, herbs, and butter for moisture, plus a duck or goose and pork filling with potatoes onions and sage. It contrasts with a long vanished old-fashioned stuffing and notes on using pure water’s effect on boilers and a brief comic about tongue at tea.
A fragmented piece notes a father's comic attempt to weigh his baby with old scales and jokes about a 60 pound child. It then shifts to a discussion of the term greyhound and its historic misnomers, arguing the name derives from the gray badger rather than color.
A Philadelphia Record retelling describes a veteran rat catcher who used ferrets and live rats to drive a big payday. He earned payment by the number of rats killed per job, boasting of dramatic warehouse clearances and keeping ferrets in a hidden drawer before releasing them.
Laurence Hutton in Harper's Magazine portrays Edwin Booth as a patient husband to his second wife whose mental illness surfaced at Saratoga and later in New York and London. He bore her irritability with quiet dignity, comforting her for hours and shielding her from blame.
In Paris water is billed by the quart and essentials vary in price. Eggs milk and cream remain costly while coal is visible in shop windows as a cheaper luxury. The writer contrasts affordable silks and velvets with expensive cottons and notes taxes and city systems shape daily life. London boasts a large army of 100 000 pick pockets.
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