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Dusiness
Ulery
Hrattleboro
American House
Mechanical Demont
Reformer
Ullory
Waterbury asylum report fuels Vermont political revolt
The special committee findings show Waterbury asylum costs run 40 cents weekly above national averages, totaling 293.20 weekly for 508 patients, with questions about graft and governance. The piece condemns single party rule, urges political revolution, and calls for voters to distinguish state from national issues and vote against the Republican slate.
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Waterbury
Vermont
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New York
Tammany-hall-Tom-Platt
Republican State Committee
Affairi Ag
Give the Devil His Due on Capital Punishment Debate
The White River Junction Landmark argues two sides of the death penalty. It states fear of the gallows is not a deterrent and life for life is revenge, not justice. It supports life imprisonment as a humane alternative, with lifelong unamenability to pardon.
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White River Junction
Repeal Death Penalty for Murderers Urged in Vermont
An op ed argues the death penalty is ineffective and unjust in a liberal era. It condemns capital punishment as insufficient deterrence and calls for repealing the law while urging careful handling of murderers through life imprisonment and the state's heavy burden of custody and reform.
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Vermont
National Education Association address praises Japanese schooling
Dr. William H. Maxwell defends modern education amid criticism and lauds Japan for training youth in hands on skill vision and patriotism. He supports rural scientific agriculture and warned of the need for capable instructors and specialized programs for foreign youths truants and embryo criminals.
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Japan
New York City
New England
Maxwell
National Association of Educators
Commentary on July Fourth Celebrations and Pardons
The piece critiques excessive Independence Day revelry and notes a fatal firecracker accident in Windham County. It condemns lenient celebration norms, urges safety, and calls for restraint. It also discusses President Roosevelt's pardon policies and opposes Loomis as a junior ambassador, urging respect for Porter and Sigsbee.
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Roosevelt
Loomis
France
John Paul Jones
United States
Horace Porter
Taft
Porter
Admiral Sigsbee
Maple syrup protest delays battleship naming
A Vermont paper urged breaking a bottle of maple syrup over the state named battleship at its prospective launch, but the idea was dismissed as inappropriate. The Boston Transcript notes the overly sticky symbolism fails to fit a naval ceremony.
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Vermont
Uncertain fate of Mary Rogers noted in editorial
Tomorrow Mary Rogers dies tonight she lives and writes of a looming burial. The piece notes the paradox of life and death in the same person and warns against anticipating a future under any law’s grip. It ends with a moral about uncertainty and governance.
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Mary Rogers
Rural motorists shift demand from local stores to mail orders
A circulating paragraph claims the automobile era is steering farmers away from rural shops toward city catalogue houses. It asserts farmers find ordering by mail safer than sending a wife or boy with a team to town.
Governor Bell praised for steady, humane handling
The Vergennes Enterprise lauds Governor Bell for acting with dignity and restraint in the Mary Rogers affair, calling him wise and temperate and commending his leadership during a troubling episode.
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Vergennes Enterprise
State's Attorney Accused of Smuggling Sister to Death Cell
Report from Windsor county alleges the Windsor county state's attorney used official influence to place his sister in a death cell related to the Mary Rogers case. The piece, framed as a sensational inquiry, questions motives and potential legal action.
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Windsor County
Mary Rogers
Court Grants Stay For Vermont Woman In Death Row Plea
A Vermont woman on death row saw her execution halted as the matter is moved to federal protection and the highest tribunal. The court may free her if state trials violated constitutional rights, upholding the principle that even the poorest citizen deserves due process under broad jurisdiction.
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State Board of Pardons of
Pennsylvania
Kate Edwards
Berks County
Pennypacker
Board of Pardon
Vermont
Montpelier Journal
Vermont husband killer gets six month reprieve
Hartford Courant reports a six month reprieve for the Vermont husband killer. The delay saves the condemned man again, as a clever criminal lawyer upholds loyalty to due process and defies jury and judge.
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Hartford
Conn
Courant
Vermont Humane Society review at Rutland meeting
The Rutland gathering highlighted the Vermont Humane Society’s past year’s work. The president urged broad public support to prosecute cruelty to children and animals, prevent abuse, and educate those with brutish tendencies, hoping eventual abolition of the need for the society.
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Rutland News
Vermont Humane Society
Rutland
Vertical writing in schools harms business prospects
The piece denounces vertical penmanship as slow and tortuous, arguing it robs students of efficiency in business life. It claims rapid legible writing is essential and predicts employers will rebuke slow stylists, urging schools to avoid teaching this questionable method.
President’s Apologia Undermines Public Trust
The President’s defense of Paul Morton saps his moral credibility as he argues through a web of pleadings and digressions. The piece condemns the president for defending Morton while noting a broader pattern of questionable conduct, including a referenced Santa Fe rebates controversy and Loomis case. It argues the president’s moral sense is untrustworthy when personal friends are involved.
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Paul Morton
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Morton
Santa Fe
Caitle
Roosevelt
Mr. Loomis
Publicity as a check on wrongdoing in journalism
Fond du Lace Reporter argues that suppression of news harms the press and public interest. He claims fear of publicity acts as the best policing force, preventing more offenses than law enforcement, and notes editors regret quieting stories that later reveal misdeeds. He warns that sparing innocent reputations often shields the guilty.
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Society For the Suppression
Judge Hoyt Wheeler Appeal Sparks US Supreme Court Question
The Hardwick Gazette questions Judge Hoyt Wheeler’s order granting Mary Rogers murder case appeal to the US Supreme Court, calling it a hair-splitting legal argument defending an act that ought not to have been done and doubting legal justification for the killer’s acts.
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Hoyt Wheeler
Mary Rogers
Supreme Court of the United States
Maine’s Largest City Debate in Boston Bootstraps Promoters
The article notes Maine natives living in Greater Boston exceed 50,000, challenging the idea that Portland is Maine’s largest city with about 35,000 natives of Maine per census. It discusses the new State of Maine club in Boston and the surprising implication for Maine city rankings.
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Massachusetts
State of Maine Club
Boston
Greater
Portand
Maine City
Haskins Bell and Allen Tipped for Montpelier Campaign Quarters
Montpelier Journal notes a possible congressional bid in the district for next year with Congressman Haskins Governor Bell and Allen, while Fletcher of Cavendish is mentioned as part of the quarters alignment. The item suggests factional hints across several named figures.
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Haskins
Bell
Allen
Fletcher
Cavendish
An Habitation Enforced in August Century
Kipling is promised in the August Century with a tale titled An Habitation Enforced. The piece is described as a fate of American people and English life as immigrants flood New York via Elds Is 4, breaking all prior records.
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Kipling
New York
Mrs Eddy Clarifies Isolation From Public Life
The article reports Mary Baker G. Eddy, leader of the Christian Science movement at Pleasant View Concord N H, explaining her withdrawal from public writing due to time constraints, not age. It also covers taft era items including Taft's Philippine trip, a Chicago labor investigation, and National Educational Association delegates assembling at Asbury Park.
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National Educational Association
Good News on Doan's Kidney Pills Reach Brattleboro Readers
Brattleboro residents report prompt relief from backache and kidney troubles after using Doan's Kidney Pills. A Vernon man, Charles Allair, credits the Old Quaker remedy for long-standing pain, saying Doan's cured him and provided ongoing protection against recurrences. Manufactured by Fowler Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y, sole U S agents. Take Doan's.
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Dean
Charles Allair
Vernon
Lower End
George FE
Leas
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