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Newspaper
The Evening Caledonian
Location
Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1919
Page
3
A brief from the Evening Caledonian dated Tuesday February 25, 1919 notes the newspaper's long history since 1837. The item references the edition date and the publication’s branding.
Charles Dole of Danville visited here Monday and Walter Wagner of St Albans is working in Bundy and Amey's store. The Mission prayer meeting meets at Edward Cleary's. Mr and Mrs A C Noyes and J W Clark visited relatives in Whitefield. Henry Choiniere of Lowell attended the town Saturday. Mrs George Birch hears from her son John F Birch in Malta en route to northern Italy. Billie Burke stars in In Pursuit of Polly at the Please U today.
See the new song play Freckles at the Colonial Theatre on Feb 28. Social visits include Miss Alice Hall and Miss Mary Jewett with Miss Harriette Keyes in Newbury, and Miss Lottie Jones with Miss Rosa Fletcher from Montpelier. Various residents visited, hosted or returned to work around Newbury, Newport, Lyndonville, and Fairlee. Dr. F W Magoon, a chiropodist, travels to Concord to push a state bill regulating practice, aligning with Vermont statute precedents.
Whitefield, Barnet, Wheelock, East St Johnsbury and Lyndonville residents visited the area over the weekend. Billie Rhodes, famed for her “bare back” filmy gauze routine, stars in Hoop-La and appears at the Globe Wednesday, drawing praise for beauty and stage presence.
Greensboro resident Mrs C E Colby visited town while H E Ward of Portland returned, and Eva Howe spent the weekend in Boston. Joseph Racette home from overseas with 20 months service and three stripes. Norwich University musical clubs to perform at the Armory with local players named. Remains of Mrs James W Hadlock of Porter Me brought for burial with services held in Greensboro. Gladys Woods dies of pneumonia. Various visits, illnesses, and a basketball game in McIndoes.
The Gag Rule, adopted by congress in May 1836, required that three fourths of all petitions memorials resolutions propositions or papers on slavery be tabled without printing or reference. The rule was abolished a few years later, ending the restraint on anti slavery petitions.
The Devil's Belt name marked a stretch of Long Island Sound in New York before and after the Revolution. Sauthier's map records the coast with Hell Fate at one end and the pearly and tumultuous Race at the other.
Several boys gathered on a street corner for a conference as one boy corrected another's English. The officer suddenly confronted the group and demanded an explanation about why a man must speak properly at all times, creating a tense exchange.
Mr and Mrs D M Smith hosted about 30 friends for whist on Thursday evening. Prizes went to Mrs Willis Emery and Irwin Smith with Harry McDonald and Lyndo Whipple taking the booby prize. Several locals and visitors attended events, church meetings, and social gatherings. a memorial for Elizabeth Josephine Nichols is noted with service and burial details.
A narrator seeks freedom and unity in the North Colonies. He weighs letters from Maryland, St. Augustine, Philadelphia, New Amsterdam, and New England describing forests, plantations, fruit, gardens, and friendly natives. He favors Plymouth for religious liberty and shared ideals.
An advertisement urges readers to stay healthy with age, promoting GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules to cleanse kidneys and improve vitality. It emphasizes regular use, a strong body, and mental sharpness, claiming a refund if not effective and noting availability from druggists.
Mrs. Jennie Jacques of Lowell Mass visited her aunt Mrs Sol Chamberlin last week. Miss Gertrude Brock weekend guest of Mrs Fanny Chamberlin. Mr and Mrs Cinnamon ill with pneumonia reported improving. Sidney Adams died of pneumonia last Monday night burial at Passumpsic Wednesday. Mrs Cook of McIndoes visiting uncle W J Smith last week. Ruth Cowan home from Lyndon Institute over the weekend. Eugene Hinman and Silas Beaumere new influenza cases last week. Mr and Mrs Clarence Bedell spent Tuesday at W H Gilchrist in MeIndoes.
The fragment presents a Queen Elizabeth passage praising the goodlisome herbs of sentences as a metaphor for reading and memory. It frames pruning, eating, and digesting words as a mental cultivation process.
A facetious remark from the Indianapolis Star questions why a man at a butcher shop fixates on flesh and the devil when seeing a duck roast priced at 55 cents a pound. The quoted line reflects a tongue in cheek view of consumer thoughts prompted by bargain meat.
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