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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1897
Page
3
A promotional note from Schling and Company in Sen Francisca claims customers can try five flavors of SchiVing's Best tea one after another and get a full refund if none suit their palate. The offer promises ten years of tea trade value for the purchaser.
A historical note traces fountain pens back to 1894 with Thomas Jefferson testing a thin device. He wrote to General Bernard Peyton asking for one from a Richmond repairer named Cowan. The pen was gold with a silver ink tube and priced at five pence. The first US patent for a fountain pen dates to 1830 for Douglass Slyde, while the earliest English patent predates that by twenty one years.
In conversation with Mr B Nevina, general agent for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, it is revealed that a daily tourist or family sleeping car runs to Denver with lower berths from $1 to $2. Wednesday Thursday and Friday offer three diet tourist sleepers to Omaha, Kansas City, Chicago, Boston and New York at reduced berth rates, operated by Pullman. Passengers should contact Mr Nevins or H M Cushing at Salt Lake City for rates and pamphlets.
The thimble began as a thumb bell worn on the thumbs and is identified as a Dutch invention. In 1884 Amsterdam marked the thimble’s bicentennial amid family celebrations. The first thimble was made by goldsmith Nicholas van Henschoten, with colonial ties noted by the 1864 gift of the first shinble to Ann van Wedy, wife of Xiltaen van Rensselaer.
Promotional text claims catarrh cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated internally. It touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a regulated prescription, combined with tonics and blood purifiers, and offers free testimonials from CHENSY & CO Toledo. Family Pills are recommended as best.
The article notes North Cape as near the Pole where the midnight sun lasts from May 1 to August 7, while the polar night runs from September 22 to February 1. It also mentions long winter nights offset by brief daylight, and a humorously misdirected Giro prize story from Mendon involving a post office error and a convivial recipient.
Rosa Giovanni, daughter of an Oakland ash man, longs for the distant hills and heaven. In a gray San Francisco basement she carries an aching brood of weak children, then dies peacefully amid the outlook that heaven lies among the hills she loved.
Last year two performing heroes named Alpha and Beta amazed England with tricks such as Alpha reciting the Salrey Gamp, wheeling Beta in a baby carriage, and writing his name with a lip pen. This year they return with an enlarged repertoire including a portrait of Mr Gladstone and arms and a gun on Beta. They perform in music, frame Sweet Home and the mare Beta helps with the air.
The passage links living conditions to judgment and success, noting that wealth and style do not define genius or virtue. It argues risk and outcomes vary from appearances, suggesting overrated safety in conformity and warning that well dressed or shabby alike can hide true merit or deceit.
An old guide extols simple kitchen tests and practices. It explains cleaning methods with sand and milk adulteration checks using a steel needle, and advises soup before solid food. It warns against rushing meals and praises dry toast for delicate digestion and avoiding fermentation.
A fragmented vintage note cites Salta Luxtury in Africa and discusses salt as a mark of wealth. It references Mungo Park on salt longing from vegetable diets and an odd quip about George Washington dying at the last hour of the last day of the last week of the last century.
The Chicago Record explains methods for invisible ink using sulfuric acid, sugar of lead, starch, and iodine. Readers are warned that writing appears only when heated or treated, allowing covert messages between lines while masking weather notes as cover.
Endorsement of Commercial Mileage Books by the Rio Grande Western Railway allows passage over Denver Rio Grande routes in Colorado without extra mileage purchases. Valid for Colorado trips. contact any Rio Grande Western agent for details. F A Wadleigh, General Passenger Agent.
In County Limerick a curlons eviction occurred after the Angli can rector was found guilty of heresy by the General Synod. He was ordered to relinquish his living and departed quietly with a bag and books as sheriff’s men entered through a window amid protests on the grounds of the rec tory.
An advertisement urges saving money with Zion's Savings Bank and Trust Co of Salt Lake City promising interest on deposits and inviting readers to start an account. The piece then digresses into a brief history of theosophy, tracing its term origin to Neoplatonists in Alexandria and noting Paracelsus followers and Mme Blavatsky as founder in the United States.
A compact roundup notes how Gray spent seven years on Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Brainard wrote The Falls of Niagara in fifteen minutes, Old Oaken Bucket’s line came from a bar room suggestion to Samuel Woodworth, Bryant’s Thanatopsis arose in a forest, Lytle penned Antony and Cleopatra the night before his death, Moore became an orientalist before Lalla Rookh, Poe conceived The Belle while walking Baltimore streets, and a Washington master painters union donated $29 to idle journeymen.
Remarkable wadstones said to originate from a Rocky Mountain goat over fifty years ago are still in service in Casey and Lincoln counties Kentucky. Owned by WM Dudderar, they were reportedly brought by his father from Missouri. New York Sun.
A fragment from the Heston Post describes the wheeling buoy origin when a boy pressed a horn mouth into water, compressing air to produce a whistle. The report links the principle to government devices and notes two San Francisco businessmen applying for a patent on a serial navigation device.
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