Fourth of July in the Bennington Region News
Centennial coverage across towns recounts Fourth celebrations from Bennington to Pownal with weddings, rallies, and quiet amusements. A death in North Adams prompts inquests, while nearby towns note parades, picnics, and a controversial sense of politics as summer events unfold.
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Bennington
Times
North Bennington
Edward D. Welling
Mary Ella Douglass
Our Village
Rutherford B. Hayes
Dimokrats
Tilden and Hendricks
Pownal
Willie Smith
Myers
Williamstown
North Adams
W. H. Blanchard
A. G. Parker
Perry Thompson
Fish Pond
John L. Mason
ICGT
J. M. Batchelder
J. L. Cook
James M. Dewey
M. D. Jamps
Petersburg
Grafton Mountain
Shaftsbury
Searsburg
Sunderland
Dorset
Rupert
Readsboro
Hoosick Falls
Young Smith
North Pownal
Republic
Diogenes N. Pownal
Did the primary system work in U S politics
Washington reports the primaries ended without fully selecting nominees yet the process informed voters and exposed candidates. helped Carter Brown Reagan and others gain recognition. pressed parties to define positions on issues like unemployment foreign intervention abortion marijuana laws and draft resisters amnesty.
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Washington
UPI
Carter
Edmund G. Brown Jr
California
Reagan
Vermont Elections Project data study at UVM library
State election data since 1896 for president and governor and since 1914 for US Senate and 1932 for House are printed in Bailey Library special collections. The Vermont Elections Project summarizes hundreds of hours of archival work by UVM faculty and students. Profs. Garrison Nelson and a colleague lead the effort including 1920 voter registration material.
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UVM
Senate
House of Representative
Montpelier
Vermont
Garrison Nelson
Schmidt
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Agriculture
Bailey
Nelson
Neven
U.S. Senate
House
U.S
Consumer education program faces impulse buying issues
The four suburban New York co op directors lamented losses of about $200 000 as impulse shopping woes hit stores averaging $12 million yearly. The Consumer Law Training Center pilot, run by New York Law School NYPIRG and Brooklyn Legal Services, trains antipoverty workers to aid members with buying rights and small claims issues.
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New York
Co-Op
Gerald Rosenstrauch
Rosenstrauch
Consumer Law Training Center
New York Law School
New York Public Interest Research Group, Inc
Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation B
New York City
United Sates
Helen Coady
Picnic of rocks ends in blast and chaos at inlet
A violent incident unfolds during a seaside picnic as adolescents ignite explosives from a box. Panic erupts with children fleeing, dogs barking, and adults crying out. A blast shatters plywood, creates a black smoke column, and injuries are counted as debris rains down near the inlet.
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Tribe of the Rocks
Where it began Nebraska and the American promise
The narrator contrasts rural and urban America, noting the nation’s tapestry from Philadelphia to Nebraska. He reflects on optimism and pessimism in the third century, acknowledging the founder city’s past glory and present mess, and frames Philadelphia as an omen mingled with hope.
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Nebraska
Ian
America
Philadelphia
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Cushman
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Tilden
Hayes
Wheeler
Banner
Factory Point
Susie Burr
Grand Union
Vermont National
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Manchester
Rt. 7
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Rhodesia
Ford
Bo Callaway
Burlington
The
University of Vermont
VISTA
Brooklyn
Coady
Annette Gula
Abrandt
Frederick E. Schmidt
Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station
Ellie Mahoney
Clark Benson
South Burlington
Ken O’donnell
Westford
Marty Childs
Westfield
N.J
Heather Munro
Essex Junction
Henry Hyde
Londonderry
Chris Dale
Montpelia
Constance Beyer King
Duxbury
Ath
Main St
Finast
Bone
N.Y
Sirloin
USDA
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