Auto speed limits and road safety reforms urged
The Caledonian editorial writers argue for a state examiner to test new drivers before licensing, criticize careless car owners, and call for fewer speed limit signs while urging safer driving practices. They also discuss government railroads, noting higher costs and reduced private ownership benefits, advocating cautious investor return and continued education on railway issues.
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St. Johnsbury
Boston
H. G. Weeks
New York Tribune
Life's Dreary Path Taken in 1919 Satirical Column
A 1919 column mocks daily life and social trends. It jokes about sleeping porches, marriages to stenographers, women knowing men gossip, and the rise of electric irons, Ford, veterans gatherings, frugal rags, auto driving dangers, and the ribbon trade in the auto era. It recalls family outings with red ribbons and carriages.
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Ford
Caledonian Change Hands Again In Town
The Caledonian has changed ownership, a move deemed inevitable as the editor balances writing and running the paper. The new arrangement promises better business management and promotion, while local editors and readers brace for reactions and costumes of nostalgia.
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Caledonian
Ags
Vermont
Fraternal Lodge, Chapter and Commandery Notices
Want ads notify Passumpsic Lodge 27 F and A M regular meeting June 12 with W M Birney L Hall and Secretary Fred H Dolloff Also Haswell Royal Arch Chapter 11 stated convocation June 18 at 7 80 pm Bloomfield Palmer Exalted Ruler Moore Secretary Palestine Commandery 5 K T stated conclave June 10 at 7 30 pm Willard V Orcutt Commander A M Lang Recorder
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Passumpsic Lodge
Birney L. Hall
W. M
Fred H. Dolloff
Haswell
Royal Arch
M. Bloomfield A. Palmer
E, H, P. P. G. Moore
Sec
Palestine Commandery
K. T
Willard V. Orcutt
Com
A. M. Lang
Speeding Your Lizzie News Quotation
Newspapers of the state note space quotas push discreet driving amid rising auto accident reports this time of year. The Montpelier Argus editor H W Clark and H B Anderson are referenced in a clipped passage about road safety and editorial stance.
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H. W. Clark
C. C
Montpelier Argus
H. B. Anderson
Mantua Memoir of Nightlife and Snakebite Toll
Mantua described as lively yet dangerous with cafe revelry and late trains to Milan while a distant colonial report notes India’s snakebite toll. The piece contrasts a vivid street scene with a sobering government tally showing thousands killed by snakes and wild animals in the prior year.
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Mantua
Prove
Italia
Italy
Manton
Carabipters
Milan
India
M. M. Tayweed
Calcutta
Tdi
Sittes
Dickens Office Boy Recalls The Great Writer In Attic Memory
A retired London porter recalls Dickens in the sixties when the author edited All the Year Round. The man describes Dickens in a velvet coat with pearl buttons, a shepherds plaid trousers, a fat deer stalker hat, and hair falling in. He recalls someone asking if he was a showman and Dickens replying that he is the great Charles Dickens. The vivid reminiscence highlights a few remembered details while omitting other observations from the former office boy.
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Temple Gate
London
Charles Dickens
Ronni
Dickens
Boy Rescued by Rubber Heels in Electric Wire Accident
Twelve year old Ben Franklin and his brother John, two years older, played with Chicago youths when they touched a live electric wire. Lawrence Rumni studied electricity and, with rubber heels, he pressed them to the wire to free John. The current shocked Lawrence but he saved his brother.
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Lawrence Rumni
Nangit
Ben Franklin
John
Bfe
Chicago
Joly
Lawrence
Optimistic Thought and Calumny Unfounded Tale
A brief note defends a person against baseless slander. It argues that calumny lacks truth and cannot harm the subject’s reputation. The piece emphasizes restraint and the strength of truth over gossip.
Kisses and Beards in Transatlantic Gossip
London bystander Parks Letter recounts how Americans and French people discuss kissing and beards aboard a trolley. A Frenchman with a tall beard draws chatter from a group of girls as they remark on lineage and facial hair. The writer notes ignorance about the emotion of kissing and reflects on cultural misunderstandings.
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France
London
Hardly Complimentary Tithe Girl and Me Visit
A neighbor’s child made a surprising comment during a visit when a little girl tossed her head and called the women homely battles and pretty ladies, signaling a sharp but unclear moment in a domestic scene.
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Lyndonville
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