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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1944
Page
3
A fragmentary 1944 in review lists several sports outcomes and figures across months. Mentions boxing champions, football results, college leagues, and baseball notes with various misread names and partial phrases. Highlights include a heavyweight mention, college teams, and league pennants with uncertain specifics due to damaged text.
A sweeping chronology details mine disasters with 16 miners slain at an Arkansas or Nebraska site, a naval ordnance depot blast, railway wrecks near Stockton and Terre Haute, fires at Palisades Park and Coney Island, a deadly hurricane sweeping Atlantic coast with 40 deaths and vast property loss, and numerous military aviation and train catastrophes across the United States, leaving many injured and dead.
January notes honor writers Tarbell and Hacketter while mentioning White and Lamone. February reports on Rear Admiral Hartigan and Rep Thomas Cullen, with Washington deaths. March covers Thomas Campbell and Eastman Defense Transportacion, plus Frank Knox. April notes Sarah Jane Swanson and Stephen Leacock, among others, with scattered references to naval leaders and Confederate era figures.
Obituary notice recounts the passing of Lasla McNeir and former Senator Reed, with long careers linked to Missouri politics and journalism. It mentions Alfred Seatth, Governor, Albert B, and T-Max Sohn among officials tied to El Paso and the Western Newspaper Union.
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