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Newspaper
Windham County Reformer
Location
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1906
Page
2
A Vermont Windham County Reformer column discusses counterfeit money attempts in Arlington, praising honest work over fraud. It contrasts skilled labor in shoemaking and cooking with deceit, calls for sanitation prompts, and critiques packers and trust prices while noting political rosters, youth candidates, and national issues in a stream of commentary.
Representative Gethro of Boston, expelled from the Massachusetts legislature for bribery, accuses colleagues of widespread vote selling and vows revenge. He calls for a full, credible investigation while denouncing himself as a corrupt coward and urging public acquittal of the body if proof supports the charges.
Advice to vacationists is now in order as Charles Wingate the sanitarian would have honestly answered by landlords and boarding house keepers before.
The excerpt shows garbled prose mentioning Washington investigations, alcohol production crimes, and political figures. It references Molt Montyeller Vermont Pre toravilly and Upton Sinclair, with disrupted names and phrases about a revolution in heat packing and a political platform.
The column analyzes the Republican state platform and Proctor’s influence on it, noting shifts in license laws and prohibition views. It discusses political strategy, regional concerns in Vermont, and implied consequences for upcoming county and state matters, with references to towns like Burlington, Bennington, and Caledonia.
A long dispatch from Washington outlines political maneuvers on a park amendment and corporate influence, including Standard Oil. It covers a house debate on immigration, industrial plans, and a reaction to prohibition policy, with noted figures and parties. Also reported are drowning victims in Newport, a major fire in a store, counterfeit money cases, and separate weather and accident notes.
The Meddler column reports on a public dispute over automobile speed limits and village governance in Windham County. It notes bailiffs actions, calls for legislative change, a planned water system bond vote, and a political platform urging furniture standards for county offices. It concludes with Jenny G. Mullings, an alleged Bristol forger, located in Albany and to be returned to Addison County jail.
Citizens discuss compensating towns like Baltimore and Glenburg for abolishing the Poo System. Enquiries focus on public salaries, potential payments to officials, and which towns could bear nominal wages or penalties if such changes were arranged locally.
Reginald a one month old colt by Carr of Rutland to Tule and Heatly, suffers a pierced breast pit and throat wound. The infant swallowed a pin while playing with it, showing no immediate distress. Doctors watched as the pin remained, then a choking episode followed toast intake revealing the pin near the sheep point. George E. Greene leads a manufacturers protest against opiates in Kennedy’s Laxative.
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