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Newspaper
Windham County Reformer
Location
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1905
Page
6
A memo-like notice promises customers quotes on prices below the regular rates. The message asserts no trust or combination and invites surprise at the attainable discounts, urging readers to compare with standard charges.
Trains depart Brattleboro daily at 6 18 a m for Springfield and on weekdays for New York. 7 26 a m weekdays to New London with connections to Troy and Palmer for Boston. 11 00 a m weekdays to Millers Falls with Boston connection. 4 24 p m to Springfield and New York, 4 2 p m weekdays to New London and New York via Norwich with Steamer connections and Palmer for Boston. 6 45 p m weekdays to South Londonderry. Change possible without notice. FE Fitzgerald and J Bentley signatories.
Irregular timetable fragment shows departures and arrivals with times such as Leave Hollows Falls 12.08 and Arr Windsor 11.05 p m. The text lists numbers and codes likely route indicators or schedules for THAINS HOUND NORTH service between Hollows Falls and Windsor.
Reports detail a trout propagation push with 1 000 000 brook and 200 000 lake trout planned for the year, hatchery repairs, and Swanton rental to the U S government. Vermont developments include legal notices, patents, school furniture moves, quarry openings, tuberculosis plans, dairy meetings, a poisoning suicide, and corporate filings in 1905 with health, safety, and infrastructure notes.
Clergymen circulate a petition urging General Beil to grant clemency for Mary Rogers who faces execution in Windsor for her husband’s murder. An anonymous letter from Sheriff Peck of White River Junction urged dropping dead before the scheduled time. Additional local items note public health talks, a divorce case, deaths of Dr. Mather and Mrs. Blackmer, a fatal train incident, and a poison case in Morrisville with intertwined family illness and motive questions.
Count Cassini the Russian ambassador to Washington and dean of the diplomatic corps marked his fiftieth anniversary in the service in Washington last week. He began his career at eighteen and is now sixty eight.
The long siege ends with the fall of Port Arthur to Japanese forces. Statements outline capitulation terms for Russian troops and civilians, with transfers of munitions and a parade of personnel, while casualties and bombardment toll are described amid harsh winter conditions.
Reports to the New York health department show high mortality from consumption and bronchitis amid inclement weather and holiday fatigue. The department opened a free clinic and seeks a sanitarium site. estimates place citywide cases between 25 000 and 28 000 with over 12 000 pneumonia deaths in the year.
A brief notice touts Page's Perfected Poultry Food as a product that keeps hens healthy and strong, promising better egg production and vitality for poultry keepers.
Census data show 11,066,614 running bales of cotton ginned in 787 counties up to Dec 15, with a sharp market decline following the report. Prices dropped across New York and New Orleans as traders weigh a potential crop near 13 million bales. Georgia farmers in Clay county burn surplus cotton to push a mass price-boost effort, while a Dallas meeting urges 25 percent 1905 acreage cut. Berlin NH endures a $150,000 blaze damaging Clement’s opera house block and surrounding buildings, with one woman killed by a jump from a window.
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