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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1896
Page
4
Published every Thursday at Vernal Utah the notice lists a subscription rate and mentions advance payment. It references organizations and authors with garbled names and terms uncertain in the OCR text.
Reports from Vernal include a county marriage license granting Chas Smith to Cora Melhonew and Geo Alped to Louisa Paoson. George Alved and Miss Louisa Pierson wed. the Roberta’s storefront windows showcase heritage goods. a new drug store building by the Co op nears completion.
Theatre listings announce The Turn of the Life at Vernal with a holiday program ending in Nero farce. Ads note gold pens and wings sale by W P Col tharp Co and a dance at Social Hill Christmas Eve and New Years. Local notices mention painting lessons, clothing stock, and ore sample interests in Idaho with various individuals named.
The article records the Vernal Bodia lodge expanding to 36 members and electing officers. It also describes a Billy Tray Minstrel Show with a large audience, and mentions officials and a discussion on school grading and the new manual governing district transfers and teaching standards.
Henry N Copp announces a revised edition of Copp's Prospectors Manual with a rewritten geological section by a Colorado mining engineer and former surveyor. The work outlines mining laws, claim locating procedures, survey forms, and practical mineralogy guidance. Price ten cents, available at principal bookstores or from the author.
Records show adjourned proceedings approving county officers taxes on property in school districts and mortgages prior to March 4 1896. Includes named individuals firms and amounts on land taxes poll taxes and clerical payments with requests for bridge construction and a monthly clerk report. Adjourned to December 1 1896.
A Vernal notice invites entries for a spelling contest using the word LOUGQATION to form words without repeating letters. Prizes go to the best ten word sentence or the longest eligible entry. Send entries with name and address to W. Cass & Co or Box 125, by December 23. results and prizes announced December 24.
An advert praises Chamberlains Cough Remedy as the best preventive for pneumonia during cold season. It claims wide experience with the product and urges keeping the remedy on hand for those with weak lungs. It lists Vernal Drug Co as seller and references Brush Creek highways store locations and price points.
Advertises a five room rental on the east side of Grentyr and includes stable cortills two wire fences and 15 seis lactine good pasture within the fence. Mentions amenities elinory furniture and plenty of good wats. Inquiries directed to I Vilbuan Vern Stoh.
A water tight good firm property of 40 acres on Mill Street near Vernal is for sale. Apply to KO Caur for full particulars.
A Southworth Washington woman suspected her husband of buying buckets at a disputed bucket shop. The vendor claimed high demand and profits, and the wife pressed to join in. The tale ends with the husband managing to quiet her by diverting the interest toward a different purchase while keeping the scheme concealed.
A notable woman, once prominent in politics, emerges as a candidate in Papin. Her husband, a senior member of the progressive party, supports her bid for parliament, a rare move given her teaching role at the academy and her husband’s municipal position.
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