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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1937
Page
9
Favorite Recipe of the Week highlights pumpkin custard as a pie alternative. Uses canned pumpkin for quick prep, bakes in a shallow pan, unmolds onto a chop platter, and suggests prunes stuffed with cheese and whipped cream for garnish. Includes a second recipe with ginger cinnamon and cloves, bake in a water bath, chill before serving.
A quotation attributed to Arthur Benson extols humor as a divine grace enhancing character. It argues humor pairs affection, loyalty, and nobility with emotional proportion, resisting rigidity and moral decay while offering artistic balance and universal forgiveness.
A dramatic testimonial claims Kruschen Salts trim fat in three weeks. It asserts rapid weight loss by taking a 4 oz bottle for four weeks, with morning hot water and diet/ gentle exercise. The ad promises health boost and a money back guarantee if not convinced.
ANIEL C ROper urged a general US tax revision to simplify how tax liability is determined and broaden the tax base. He spoke at a business advisory council banquet in Chicago, calling for an equitable distribution of the tax burden. Executives announced major expansions and housing reform proposals tied to the administration’s recovery goals.
Senators O Mahoney of Wyoming and Borah of Idaho introduced a federal licensing measure for corporations engaged in interstate trade. Backers frame it as a response to anti trust reform, aiming to curb monopolies and expand labor protections, wages, hours, and collective bargaining under new federal rules. The bill would require immediate licensing and seek FTC input on a national incorporation framework. Farmers' Grain Corp votes on dissolution set for January 24 with plan to shift operations to state groups.
Greyhound Bus Line drivers settle a daytime strike with an increased wage effective July 1. No fixed minimum mileage and a potential 5.5 cents per mile demand remained unagreed. Violence accompanied the blockade in the northeast as talks concluded.
President Roosevelt sent to the senate the nomination of Rep Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky to the United States court of appeals for the District of Columbia. The post pays 10000 dollars annually and includes retirement privileges. Vinson, 47, serving his seventh term, from Ashland, Kentucky, is a noted tax expert. Roosevelt also nominated Associate Justice D Lawrence Groner of Virginia as chief justice, creating a vacancy to be filled by Henry White Edgerton of New York.
The article argues golf may originate in Holland around 1300 AD with evidence from early Dutch games called kolf played in streets and squares. It notes Delft tes with kolfers and an ice game in winter. Nomenclature such as alymle darmle and putt is traced to Dutch roots.
English writer Dorlod Thele Butter John Houghton notes in 1695 that Irish dairying involved rotting butter by burying it in bogs. He cites discoveries of butter buried long before, packed in firkins, suggesting motives of storage, concealment from invaders, or peat ripening akin to cheese aging.
The article notes that in 1809 advertising was scarce while U S manufactured goods totaled 3 385 000 854 dollars. It asserts that advertising created demand and over nine years raised manufacturing value to 70 434 863 443 dollars.
A report recalls a years old Queensland incident where an albino wild dog kept with other dingoes was found dead next morning, torn apart, illustrating hostility among the species.
A brief note describes Omey Island near Ireland becoming connected to the mainland at low tide by a smooth sand bed, enabling races on recently washed shorelines. It references Mesa Verde views and Natava beauty, noting prehistoric Pueblo trails and canyon vistas.
The wartime aftermath left broad demand for mirrors of varying sizes and shapes. Makers faced shortages and adaptation as they supplied households, shops, and civic spaces, reflecting a growing appetite for refined interiors in the new republic.
The narrative recalls George Washington gaining public notice via his French and Indian War valor at age twenty two and a later Virginia House of Burgesses scene where a speaker calms his blush with a praise of modesty. Also notes black oak timber use for mine props and its regional growth, size ranges, and soil adaptability.
Advertising raised the per unit value of manufactured products from 1868 to 1928. The per unit value grew to 579.70 dollars, creating demand for three to four times more workers and lowering consumer costs.
On Goth land, a Baltic Sea island, a curious vestige of an ancient sun worship religion survives. On Thursdays, the day of the storm god, peasants avoided pun or dance as in the pre Christian era offerings could not be made to Bal the sun god.
Excavations in central Vienna uncover a Roman villa with steam piping delivering heat to spaces under the Moors. The villa features eight rooms and a kitchen, showing early use of steam heating in ancient times. A separate note describes the Palgerous Amazon River fish with sharp teeth and aggressive behavior toward warm blooded creatures.
In a London statement the home service director of gosas association claims that in 12 months the average woman washes an acre of dirty dishes moves through 3 miles of clothes 1 mile of glass and 5 miles of floors across a household routine.
A degree of latitude equals about 69 miles, consistent across all latitudes, while a degree of longitude is about 69 miles at the Equator and decreases toward the poles as parallels converge.
Amber, a fossil resin from ancient pine forests, occurs in irregular masses up to about sixteen pounds. Across the Baltic shores, notably East Prussia, amber mining has persisted for two centuries. Shafts pass marl and sand to green sand 50 to 60 feet thick, then a blue earth layer 146 feet thick where nodules form, yielding thousands of wounds from 40 to 60 square rods.
In 1579 Sir Francis Drake named the western North American coast New Albion after landing at Bodega Bay 40 miles north of San Francisco. He claimed the land for Queen Elizabeth. Humboldt and later writers restricted the name to the coast from San Francisco to the northern Oregon boundary.
The yellow primrose, also known as the cowallo in Europe, is described as a common wild tower in Europe. Primula veris stands among the characteristic towers of the eastern Alps.
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