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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1939
Page
3
The article lists animal liver as a rich vitamin A source and mentions other sources like yellow vegetables and eggs. It discusses how vitamin A is present in foods such as liver and certain vegetables and dairy products.
Fragmentary English account notes Naples aquarium stunning a Spanish novelist who wandered from his Mare Nostrum theme for fifty pages describing the Italian exhibit. The piece suggests the writer’s fascination overwhelmed his planned narrative during a Naples visit.
The dodo was found on Mauritius Reunion and Rodrigues, extinct about 160 years after first spotted in 1500, killed by colonists and dogs. A Washington Post note says the birds were tolerant of humans until killed, leaving a legacy in the phrase dumb as a dodo. The Purple Heart Order is cited as a veterans group formed in Ansonia Connecticut for wounded service members.
A fragment notes the Channel Islands Jersey Guernsey Alderney and Sark as the smallest among the British Isles. It remarks the large number of islands and that people rarely count them, highlighting their diminutive status.
Fragmentary note describes boys in Connemara Ireland wearing dresses until about age fourteen due to belief fairies will steal boys, plus ease for mothers to sew dresses rather than trousers.
An ancient tree trunk in Vienna is described as heavily studded with nails. The article notes a legend that from the sixteenth century blacksmith apprentices drove a nail into a stamp before practicing their trade, while warning against overreliance on pedestrian signals and mentioning a nickname origin for the French as Frogs based on royal arms.
The note traces Dalsy or Marguerite Dalsy as an Anglo Saxon fower name and surname used for Marguerite, relates it to daisy in French and English, links to pearl symbolism, and mentions Hadassah nickname usage with no fixed ties to a single origin.
The text traces the Spanish Main as the mainland of northern South America named by English speakers as a boundless sea. It notes the 1886 march A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight and mentions Theodore Roosevelt and a Cuban context with Finugh Riders in Cuba.
Article describes a monumental railroad bridge crossing the Great Salt Lake linking Oxden and Lucia. It mentions a 12 mile trestle section and 15 miles on solid foundation, with a unique two town transit system and impressive lake crossing. Also notes Bergamo commuters and exotic jungle superstition among South American tribes and European leather fashion.
Strange graveyard in Guanajuato contains skulls and skeletal figures hanging along walls. locals describe eerie displays as visitors glimpse bones and monuments amid tombs in a historic Mexican city.
The text lists the ten largest foreign colonies in order as London Tokyo Parts, noting Pereira as the largest citizen.
The text recalls Francola Stradivari of the Bow, famed at the start of the Nineteenth century, standing alone as a great figure in bow making.
Fragmented text describes a Medal of Honor recipient with combat feats and opponent captures, then shifts to unrelated notes about a tartan pattern, a Chinese term for fleece, and stray phrases about hotels and apartments. The excerpt lacks coherent context or a single news event.
This notice from The Ing Circle Reedteceatt Dept New York advertises an embroidery transfer pattern with twelve letters and two sizes for placing initials and illustrations. Readers are asked to write their name address and pattern number plainly to receive the pattern.
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