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Bennington Eve. Banner (VT) 12 Mar. 3/2: James A. Patten, the Chicago cotton and grain speculator, was hooted off the Manchester exchange [...] Patten’s connection with the rise in the price of cotton [...] was responsible for the outbust of hostility toward him at the ‘cottonopolis’. Bennington Eve. Banner (VT) 9 Dec. 2/3: The snowstorm struck them hard and they had to ‘get out and get under’ the automobile. They had to look seven ways for Sunday. Bennington Eve. Banner (VT) 4 May 4/4: On heads grew, each side, an ear. [...] When most of their day was devoted to beaux so they couldn’t spare time to wash [...] And had to develop the ‘cootie garage’. Who started the fashion of putting those cootie nests over the girls’ ears anyway?