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Newspaper
Windham County Reformer
Location
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1904
Page
1
A charter for a new corporation to build an opera house at Burlington will be secured soon. The charter is to authorize a capitalization of 60000 dollars with the privilege of increasing it to 100000 dollars.
Representatives of New London Northern and Central Vermont railroad companies offered a settlement to Brattleboro & Whitehall stockholders in probate court. Proposals included converting track to standard gauge by 1905 with $75,000 in bonds and new mortgages, plus stipends and governance terms. all offers were rejected after lengthy negotiation and the session ended with no agreement and continued foreclosure litigation.
Charles North of near Summit in Chester found an embedded Indian tomahawk in a tree trunk felled winter earlier. Rusted but preserved inscribed with Peter now Gen. Stark's Army 1777 white aquaw and a red fur drawing with eagle feathers. The article ties the find to Gen John Stark and the 1777 Bennington campaign, noting nearby historic markers and an older cannon ball and tomahawk uncovered decades ago.
Brattleboro saw substantial construction value in the past year totaling between 200000 and 259000. Projects include a 43000 bridge, the Souto furniture plant nearing 400000, Thompson Hospital updates, a 10000 Home for Aged addition, Estey Organ Co rear building, Hooker Corser & Mitchell extension, and multiple residences along North Main High Street and Oak Grove. The new bridge may spur an electric railroad link to Hinendale and Northfield, underpinning broader town investment and industrial expansion.
A fragment recalls a crusty saxophonist-like figure who mentions knowing someone killed by happiness and a man found dead on his mother-in-law’s avenue, reflecting a cryptic local humor anecdote from a Scrappy era dialogue.
Dr Conlands Library catalogued by Anderson Auction Co will be sold at 6 West 29th Street New York next week Thursday evening Friday afternoon and evening Jan 7 and The catalog lists 1068 titles many rare editions chiefly on history Vermont imprints broadsides and registers plus rare copies of works by Lorall Tyler who was Vermonts 100 years ago chief justice The catalog may be obtained from Anderson Auction Co sales begin at 7 and 7 30 oclock The Reformer will publish more case details later. A separate item notes a young woman fighting a hawk at Dr Crouchs Strawberry Hill farm Old Mystic Conn the hawk won with a wing span about 4 inches.
Police announce twelve Iroquois stage workers arrested on manslaughter charges as the coroner’s inquest opens. Officials detail questions about door locks, fire escape access, curtain issues, arc light sparks, and management failures that trapped patrons. The disaster killed about 564 with hundreds more injured and unidentified. Eddie Foy helped direct evacuation as the building burned.
A large wild animal, about five feet long with a two foot tail, brown with a darker back, was seen in woods east of Mr. Ryan’s by Guilford Lowrey while hunting. Two dogs failed to track it. The beast, likely a catamount or panther, was headed north at last sighting. Separately, Fred Whitney of Hartland has netted over 259 dollars from fur sales since Oct 15, including bounties, with mink missing from a Windsor incident.
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