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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1893
Page
2
County wide communications urged to arrive on Monday for same week publication. Tuesday evening changes update standing advertisements for the following week. Saturday morning, items of interest from all areas receive attention. Sign communications plainly or they may be ignored. Editor not responsible for sentiments. We will publish our own productions but not others.
A caustic column mocks petrified swindlers and promotes Uintah County Utah. It touts San Juan gold excitement while noting water costs and Navajo tensions. The piece exhorts settlers to stay and develop Uintah County highlighting climate soil resources and mineral wealth.
A correspondence argues the government keeps oversized agency staffs to create offices for politicians and office seekers. It cites Uintah Ouray school costs totaling about $95,000 for 35 daily pupils and questions the benefit to Indians. The piece urges allotment and settlement of lands to foster education and white and Indian cooperation, claiming vast Uintah lands in Wasatch county offer potential revenue and resources.
The piece lists home remedies and superstitions such as stale bread for breading gloves, bread crumbs for silks, gasoline for leather items, tooth powder for jewelry, warmed corks as stoppers, vaseline for hands, camphor to prevent tarnish, milk for boots, and gum arabic mixed with gum tragacanth for a mucilage.
England’s linen output could wrap the globe seven times yearly. Arizona last year yielded three million in gold two million in silver and one and a half million in copper. Three hundred million eggs are used annually in making albumen paper for photography. Redditch England hosts the world’s largest needle factory. Over seventy million needles are produced weekly. The Patriotic association of Mecklenburg Schwerin Germany will exhibit wheat seeds and dairy products on March 3 and 3 1892.
The notes recount unusual deaths from jealousy and heartbreak, including Lely distressed by Sir Godfrey Kneller’s success, Elpoenstone dying after Flodden, Frederick II and Maximilian I dying from eating too many melons, and Nalantia the Spanish theologian dying of grief under papal accusations. Alonzo Cano, a French painter of the seventeenth century, reportedly refused to kiss a poorly executed cross within an hour of death.
The piece reports large sums in England including £100000 for Queen Victoria's Osborne dining room fittings and nearly £20000000 yearly for police services. It notes 40000 Britons pay a guinea annually to display crests on stationery and plate. It also mentions Petticoat Hole in Stockton-in-the-Forest tied to aid for two local poor women with new petticoats each year.
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