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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1899
Page
2
The Vernal Express lists Bartlett Bros and Merely proprietors with Chas Bobarttle, editor and Ward E Pace, associate editor. Subscription rates shown include one year four six dollars and eighty cents. billing terms indicate payments by subscribers.
A 1904 call urges residents to support local businesses over outsiders who drain money from the community. It highlights the Vernal Building & Manufacturing Company and a local nursery as examples of manufacturing and productive enterprises that benefit residents when patronized locally. The piece questions where spending occurs and stresses keeping wealth within Vernal and Uintah County.
The piece urges supporting Vernal based enterprises to build up the country and benefit customers with better goods. It warns neglecting local business harms economic interests and advocates keeping money at home to foster home industry and curb external competition.
A noted agricultural lecturer Prof TI B Einheld failed to meet farmers in Uniah County due to missed timing and indifference. The Express pledges local focus, calls for subscriptions, and promises stronger rural columns to boost incomes and community pride.
The report notes Victor suffered severe fire damage with dam losses estimated around 2.5 million dollars. The Crypte Creek District and Independence mine, owned by Mr. Stratton, are highlighted as notable sites amid destruction. The city, though not the district’s largest, remains a key business hub with rich mining nearby.
The text describes two mines near the heart of the city, Portland and Gold Coin, with the latter featuring a valuable shaft house at the core of town. It notes narrow streets between large frame buildings hindering taxation and a plan to rebuild with better materials. A note from the envelope paper house mentions the envelope trust raising prices by 25 percent. Carter Rice & Co claims always low prices.
Advice on orchard ground and tree choices from SP.D. Recommends dry, well drained soil and hardy apple and crabapple varieties such as Yellow Transparent Red Astrachan Ramb Whitney Crabs Wealthy Wolf River Cranacendent Crab Bon Davis North Western Greeneings Bell ower White Winter Pearmain and Gano. Suggests planting small trees 6 to 12 inches high, buying from reliable nurserymen with written guarantees and keeping trees growing for two years.
Report details extensive hail destruction across Jensen including shattered windows at multiple properties, fallen trees, damaged buggies, and livestock losses. Indians camping near Mt Kuoo’s cave reported injuries from hail while others helped the injured, with widespread debris and scattered damages noted.
A city lawyer argues that professionals labor far longer and tougher than manual workers. He notes professionals often work 12 to 14 hours daily, sometimes 10 to 20 hours across days, even when ill, while manual laborers rest more and avoid sustained strain.
John Swearingen of Udgefield, blind since childhood, won top honors at the South Carolina college commencement. Professors note his exceptional skill in mathematics and astronomy with perfect grasp of geometry, while he weighs a future as a minister or singer.
A shoe salesman explains that most people have a natural foot size difference with the left foot often larger or more comfortable. He notes that even when only slight, the asymmetry feels vanish quickly as wearers adapt, and that rights handedness can influence which foot is larger.
A medical journal review from 1873 to 1880 shows birth rates declining from 176 to 342 per 1 000, with a peak in 1876 and a drop thereafter. Agricultural districts report lower marriage rates than manufacturing areas and rural depopulation rises as city migration increases.
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