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Newspaper
Barre Evening Enterprise
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1898
Page
4
Local items include several residents visiting Burlington and Camp Olympia travelers, church announcements, and notes on city projects. Anxious to witness a Goddard Seminary game, visitors from Barre head to Burlington to see the high school clash with Burlington.
Goddard Seminary announces a baseball trip with games against Burlington High School Monday and St. Albans High School Tuesday, returning Wednesday morning. The lineup includes Flaggs, Pierce, Tenney, Lamb, Ace, Bush, Booth, Galer, Chase, and Hulet. The school flagpole has been fixed after halyards fell from the staff, repaired by the electric light company. A postponed Goddard second Montpelier second game due to rain will be rescheduled. A reception at week’s end will be hosted by the girls and funded by them, with the usual men’s allowances.
The McDonald quarry blast killed Angus Melver and injured two. Mrs. Marion Melyer receives 1500 insurance from Massachusetts Mutual after her husband’s death. Adjuster Chas Adams cites spilled powder on a floor nail or boot as the most plausible cause among several theories.
A 70 year old praises Magnetic Treatment by Prof. L. G. Wilkins for liver indigestion and numbness improving after two months. The rest of the column blends local notices from Barre and West Topsham including marriages, moves, church plans, court actions, and advertisements with several names and places in Vermont.
The bladder serves solely as a urine receptacle and cannot contract disease except via kidney malfunction or poor medical treatment.
The passage recalls Boswell and Johnson’s witty clashes and Wilkes’s sharp replies. Quotations from Cornhill Magazine and Philadelphia Record fragmentarily reflect debates on loyalty, authority, and social banter in regal and courtly circles.
A. I. Buzzell new proprietor at Red Star Lunch Room offers a weekly menu with Sunday chicken pie beef stew Monday chicken stew Tuesday and Wednesday fish chowder Thursday fish balls Friday hamburg steak Saturday oyster stews and baked beans with coffee and other refreshments available at all hours.
Real Estate Otlive invites all buyers and sellers to visit at Bolster's Block 10 rooms. Listings include building lots from 3100 and up, a nearly new barn-connected house on Eastern avenues, a house on Hust street just completed, and a Dun street house with lot. Agents offer tenancy help, rent collection, and reliable services.
The Williams Typewriter advertises the best machine with strong manifolder, visible writing, direct inker, no ribbon jams, and greatest speed, offered for sale by a seller.
City agent H. Arthur Camp invites residents to call and drop a card at Washington Street, urging contact for mail matters.
A movable tropical palace built of Movida wood cost 20000 dollars and touring Florida. It features tropical fruits, wines, perfumed fountains, palms and alligators, chained for safety. Director Wanton S Webb promotes the Florida Sub-Tropical Exposition and will exhibit in Barre on May 28 and 30 with minor admission fees.
The article explains two sensitizing methods for paper, brushing and floating. It describes paper types, salt preparation by a photographic dealer, and a sensitizing solution using nitrate of silver and water with ammonia to form a clear liquid, cautioning minimal ammonia.
Train times show departures from Williamstown to Barre with listed evening options. The fragmentary notes include several times such as 1.20 percent and 4.30 b.m. and 7.30 a.m. plus 8.00 PM, with references to officials W. CEM and Supt. STOLGILOS and Ms W.
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