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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1893
Page
4
The Vernal Express a Vernal Uintah County Utah weekly paper lists submission guidelines for local items and ads. It notes Monday deadlines for same week publication and Saturday morning changes for ads, with a disclaimer that the editor isn’t responsible for sentiments in communications.
Community updates include seed payments, completed pictures, bought ice cream and cake for masquerade, theater offerings, lost envelope of five dollars, a near drowning on Green River, upcoming masquerade ball prices, church fundraising dramatic performances, births and illness notices, and local fines for schoolyard discipline.
The article describes flag poles rising on the grounds for the fair with flags from forty five nations. It notes painters atop high girders painting the Manufactures Building roof while workers risk life and death for the decorative project and awning installation under glass roofs.
The record lists four destructive windstorms killing about 200 people across Missouri Kansas Texas and Kansas. four great floods in Illinois Indiana Mississippi and Penn. four mining disasters in Illinois Pennsylvania Washington Montana. three deadly fires in Indiana New York Philadelphia. explosions at Jordan Michigan Mare Island and a bridge collapse near Licking River. Totals show about 900 lives lost from major events and 3 568 additional deaths from various causes, with last year totaling 5 762, suggesting 1802 may surpass it.
A 1893 program schedule lists topics in theology Bible history Book of Mormon and New Testament English history and biography. Named organizers include Thomas Bingham Warren Johnson Edwin Oaks Leroy Colton Lewis Workman Nathan Hardy and Jas Hardy Jr with R L Woodward and S Noellen Johnson serving as secretary.
Byron Sessions 18 John Atwood 18 Chas Davis 17 Ed Sessions 16 and Joseph Atwood 16 were arrested by Sheriff Pope on rape charges against 14 year old Nettie Parks. They faced Commissioner Camp who deemed the evidence too disgusting for publication and they were fined as stated.
A Boston Transcript critique argues black characters show good traits yet lack strong domestic ties. It claims black mothers are indifferent nurses and negras children face high mortality reflecting careless selfhood, leading to shallow affection and frequent parental abandonment.
The executive committee refused an appropriation for May day events shocking the ceremonies committee which had planned a Holmes ode and a Cleveland address. The board ordered abolition of the ceremonies group and appointed a six member sub committee from the directory and commission to designate state days.
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