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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1944
Page
6
Instructions for making a knit rag rug from fabric strips. Knit straight strips three quarters of an inch wide with three eighths inch diameter dowels, sew around a center oval, and ease in colorful strips for even fullness. Dye rags to blend colors harmoniously. directions appear in LOOK 4.
Amid wartime uncertainty, churches extend watch services to honor soldiers abroad as 1949 begins. The article notes New Year reaching Chatham Islands first, with bells rung and prayers offered in many communities, reflecting global time zones and shared rituals.
A century old meditation traces bells from primitive wood to carillons symbolizing peace and unity. It notes early bell use to mark New Year and civil occasions, with references to Swiss, Italian, and American traditions and a Riverside school project in New York City.
A colorful, period tone prose suggests a lyric urging the old year’s demise and the new year’s renewal. It invokes ringing out grief, feuds, falsehood, and disease while ringing in nobler manners, pure laws, and common love. The author is credited as FORD TENNYSON.
A reader describes reusing Christmas and New Year cards by cutting pictures to create decorative wraps and gifts. It suggests donating unused cards to churches and charities and using saved imagery to craft original gift packaging.
The text explains that ancestral counts do not double each generation due to intermarriage. By the tenth generation about 300 to 400 actual ancestors exist, far less than the theoretical 1,024 possible.
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