30 Aug 1894
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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1894
Page
1
Nancy Haws TiRS advertises as a dentist who also handles real estate business before the Land Office. She solicits and promptly attends to matters at low rates, furnishing abstracts and all information on land matters with consistently reasonable fees.
The president signed the Indian appropriation bill, enabling steps to open nearly four million acres of Uintah and Uncompahgre lands in Utah. Three commissioners will allot lands in severalty to the Uncompahgres and press treaties with the Uintahs for relinquishment of rights. Completion may take up to two years.
In Hammondville, Ohio, ongoing holiness meetings have unsettled the community. Husbands quarrel with wives over church joining, a husband assaulted the evangelist, and a woman has become mentally unbalanced, wandering the streets praying. Locals consider a public meeting to halt the revival.
Washington August 23 The president stands by his plan to let the tariff bill become law without his signature despite strong opposition from Congressmen who fear political fallout. Speaker Crisp noted the bill cannot gain presidential autograph before next Monday and Congress may adjourn by Tuesday.
The Salt Lake Tribune notes that silver in the country showed little family toll and offerings remained scarce until a silver loan of 10,000,000 tuela was issued. It suggests a gold war loan could lift the price of silver and that solicitors may have held the metal too long.
A historical notice reports Dr. Price's Cream Baling Powder receiving a gold medal at Midwinter Pale in San Francisco. The text also contains a series of humorous if outdated anecdotes about modesty and propriety among young women from various towns, reflecting social norms of the era.
A New York dated note discusses diverse weekly rest days across nations, noting Greek Sunday, Persian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Turkish and Jewish sabbath distinctions. The piece then shifts to Wall Street silver speculation, citing London influence and a Montana bill for unlimited coinage as a potential driver.
In Vernal Utah on August 18 1894 the partnership of L Johnson B D Colton W P Coltherp Joseph Luxen and R S Collett doing business as L Johnson & Co is dissolved by mutual consent. All accounts due the firm are payable and all liabilities assumed by successors L Johnson B D Colton and H S Collett who will continue under the firm name L Johnson & Co.
Advertisement notes plain house and sign work with imitation wood and marble and carriage painting by L. W. Winrrass at Jake Workman's shop. Call for services.
Bargain offer for 70 acres of farming land listed for sale near Vernal. Enquiries directed to Bort Haight.
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