Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-06-08
SENSATIONS HERE
WAY BACK IN '29
Charles Hull Made a Team Trip to
Troy Every Two Weeks
And In Those Days The Register
Office Sold Toothbrushes and
Pictures of Play Actors.

TlCtuTes OF Flhy NSNoTb'
"Charles Hull has given notice that
he has procured team and will carry
passengers to and from Mddebury and
Troy, NJ Y, making the round trip in
two weeks. Baggage at the risk OF
the owner
Such is one of the interesting items
found in the advertising columns Of an
age-worn copy Of newspaper that was
published in Middlebury just SO years
ago this month. The paper was then
known as 1.-THE National Standard"
and the copy Of it, bearing date Of June
%, 1929, was exhibited to the present
proprietor of The Register this week by
Prof. p N. SWEET of the drawing and
surveying department of Middlebury
College, INTO whose hands it had fallen
through the courtesy of Prof. SWEETS
cousin, William p. Northrup of Buffalo,
IN. Y. Mr.. Northrup had found the
paper among the effects of his uncle,
Elan r. Jewett who was at the time
the paper is dated, an apprentice
in the Office of Copeland and Steele,
the publishers of the National Standard
in Middlebury.
The advertisements in the old paper
are the most interesting things in it.
Many of them were devoted to the wool
industry which thrived so extensively
in Addison County. Almost every ad-
vertisement began with the statement
that "the subscriber desires to inform
the public" and all of them We're as
carefully dated as a legal document.
We find that Moses Cutter was then
dealing in drygoods- such as kersey-
meres, black Italian ustrng, plain and
striped barages, plain Gotta palla, and
black and colored gro de Berlin silks
among which the modern woman might
have difficulty in choosing her gowns
today for it is doubtful if many of those
goods would be recognized. Mr.. Cutter
included on his shelves few other in
cdentals such as groceries, crockery
glass and hardware, dried fish, salmon,
shad and mackerel, leghorn and palm
leaf hats and large assortment of red
and white merino long and square
shawls, which is one of the pleasant
"reminiscences of the day when the
ladies draped their shoulders in gay
colored nantes. MI. Cutter priced all
of his goods in pounds, shllings, and
pence and offered everything Eat a
very small advance from cost.
M. S. Waller offered to pay generous
price for 200 cords of hemock bark
John Whitney offered 700 barrels for
sale and sought 5000 hoop poles for his
cooperage business; E. B. Boothe
offered to take any quantity of old gold
and silver in exchange for cash or
goods at his jewelry store and E. h.
Smith, in the dry goods business offered
to take all kinds of garden produce in
exchange for his goods-it appearing
that he was more up to date than he
realized.
Charles Lamb and iona. Whittmore,
setting up a new business in carpentry
and joiner work, offered to set glass in
new sashes at dollar per hundred
lights, indicating that even daylight
was less expensive in 1929.
Gordak's German Physical Drops and
ndelible ink were advertised among
the offerings at Charles Bowen's gen
eral store in connection with his an
nouncement of removal, possibly indi-
eating that the German Physical Drops
had not proved so popular as he had ex-
pected. Pulmonary balsam, anodine
balsam, eye-wash, itch ointment and
bears oil purified for hair dressing,
Stoughton's Bitters, "by the gallon or
Junk Jar" were all duly advertised.
Hezekiah Hatch, either through an
abundance of humor or lack of money
advertised to pay zone cent reward for
the return of George Hill, 'indented ,
boy, II years of age, who had run
away"
One mysterious advertisement reads:
"All persons are hereby notified that
they will expose themselves to the
penalty of the law if they make any
accelerating washers to sell or keep ia
the towns of Middlebury or New Haven
without my permission. Said washers
were invented by Moses Cass in the
town of Caroline, Stuben County, N.
Y, and are said to wash clothes as fast
as anyone can wiring them, They may
be had Of the subscriber.
(SignedD HORACE SMITH"
Mr.. Smith must have carried his in
vention to the Great Beyond for we
know of no machines today that will