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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1936
Page
2
The American Automobile Association tested different car makes at varying speeds. Results show gas consumption rises with speed, with a car that gets 13 miles per gallon at 30 miles per hour dropping to 12 at 60 and 8 at 80. Oil use also increases notably at higher speeds.
The fragmentary note hints at affectionate language about a follower and a playful remark about blending or “fudging” in a city or project context. Names and exact places are unclear. no concrete events or dates are identifiable from the readable text.
A garbled sports column fragment recounts Ruppert hosting a party inviting guests to bid for admission, mentions Harlem social friction over Jack Johnson, and riffs on Jay Berwanger, Marty Berg, Jim Norris, and other figures. It alludes to bootleg bookies, track intrigue, and a doomed rookie tale involving a New Jersey youth who boasted prowess to McGraw and failed in practice.
The fragmented clipping references Mike Jacobs blaming Chicago management, Johnny McNaughton running St Mary's Galloping Gaels, and a New York turf commission policy on suspended jockeys. It mentions Charley Grim managing the Cuba, Jack from the Yankees, and a North Carolina training camp tale of a rookie’s 65 strikeouts and sensational vehicle buying.
The Great Lakes fed a vast waterway network linking inland farms to global markets. Waterways, canals, and railways propelled Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, and Milwaukee into industrial hubs, with Lake Erie to New York and Lake Michigan to the Midwest shaping commerce, immigration, and urban development.
A reader contributes a word analogy exercise with ten items. Each item gives two related words and asks for a fourth word linking to the third in the same relation as the first pair. The listed pairs mix nouns and proper names with several garbled spellings and OCR errors.
The article notes a minute change in the inch, now defined as 25.4 millimeters to unify U S and British measurements for precision manufacturing. It explains the shift from the former American standard to the new definition, reducing length by two millionths of an inch to resolve cross country standard confusion.
The Vostun Company invites readers in the southern part of this paper to request a full week’s supply of Postum free. Send your request for the health drink to the advertised address and receive the complimentary week’s supply.
A fragment from the Mora era pages notes a theatrical agent arranging a brief radio bit for comic Jon Frisco. The agent promises a five minute air slot while Frisco stammers through his throat and cadence. The dialogue hints at backstage humor and broadcast dynamics.
The text presents loose, nonsensical lines about good and bad, mother, utile, bellys, and concern. No clear event, person, or place is identifiable, leaving only fragmented phrases and scattered questions. The piece reads as a puzzling excerpt rather than a coherent report.
A humorous dialogue shows a wife accusing her husband of lacking effort in romance while lamenting her old clothes. The husband responds insistently affirming love, and the exchange ends with light domestic irony.
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