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Newspaper
Windham County Reformer
Location
Brattleboro, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1905
Page
3
An odd OCR fragment touts a spring catarrh cure promising a scientific method and inhaled therapy. It mentions a pocket inhaler, a home treatment, and a price claim for a product named Hyomel, with unclear details and dubious guarantees.
Fragmentary text references a cemetery area with parklike grounds on high ground. Mentions landscape features and surrounding forest, with scattered phrases about sections and access, but details are unclear and names are incomplete.
A country store advertises stock for sale and invites customers to shop, promising savings and fair dealings. The note mentions tea and shoes as items, offers a potential exchange for proof of purchase, and expresses the seller’s intent to earn a share of customers’ patronage.
Winchester high school and local teams headline a bustling day at the fair grounds. Grady pitched well for the high school in a 5 to 1 loss to the rivals, while the Crescents and Athletics battled to a 5 to 8 tie before a late Crescents rally. The crowd of about 409 saw strong defense, clutch hits, and noted players such as Brager and R. Allen contributing key efforts.
Ira G. French 83 longtime photographer and pioneer portraitist died at his nephew Ira F. Burnett’s house in Brattleboro after a long illness. He traced roots to William French of Westminster and studied under Caleb May, creating notable ambrotypes and large head portraits across Vermont, New York, and California before settling back in Vermont. His life included travels by stage to Sacramento and San Francisco, meeting notable figures, and contributing extensively to early American portraiture.
Bellows Falls faces loss of another industry as the bobbin factory at Russell Street plans to move to Maine. The Spears company will unite with a shoemaker and relocate up to sixty workers, nine of whom are foremen. Hetty Green Place project exhibitions stir, claiming the richest library site. The town awaits final decision while a Barre doctor dies.
George H Newton of 9 Flat Street testifies to the value of Doan's Kidney Pills based on long standing use and positive results. He urges fellow sufferers to obtain the product, noting Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York as sole U S agents and 50 cent price.
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