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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1933
Page
6
A garbled excerpt mixes playful lines on Boners and Insecticides with brief, misquoted historical notes about Caesar Pompey Monroe and the Monroe Doctrine. It includes garbled military and medieval questions about gathering a horse and asking a sergeant for a bridle, ending with a stray cipher-like stamp.
Collegiate Sue attributes the saxophone fad to boys spending too much time with their arms around the instrument. The item appears in a 1943 Bell Syndicate IS NU Service dispatch.
In Thornton W. Burgess's bedtime tale the Merry Little Breezes plan to help Happy Jack Squirrel and Chatterer the Red Squirrel by shaking open burrs to drop brown nuts. Happy Jack and Chatterer quarrel over ownership as nuts fall, triggering conflict and a clash over who may claim the harvest.
A fragmentary poem contemplates a child at a mother's breast and the gaze of a woman. It hints at judgment and fear of male greed, with lines about innocence, guilt, and perception.
A witty caption from 1933 referencing a bank president in a Hell Syndicats humor piece. The strip lampoons self-regard within finance circles, typical of WNU Service cartoons of the era.
Delicious seafood recipes outline preparing clam and crab dishes with butter onions and flour base. Includes baked fish with potato stuffing, crabs or clams filling, tomato sauce and optional garlic or onion flavoring.
Lou Gehrig, star first baseman for the New York Yankees, trains vigorously in White Sulphur Springs and at White Sulphur Springs, Wyoming. He engages in strenuous exercise as a preliminary to the winter training season in Florida.
The girlfriend jokes about Palm Beach season bathing suits as rival gowns race to outshine each other. A 1934 Gell &Indieatea feature notes a quirky garden plant called the noodie plant with a beanlike inside that curls out in stripes when boiled, resembling noodles.
A well digging crew near Vancouver Washington descends into a gas filled shaft. Winston, a professional, signals for rescue and is pulled up but dies from monoxide. Arthur Ames, 25, volunteers to descend to save him, succumbs to the same gas. A radio operator aboard the Nevada broadcasts for help as the ship and crew face destruction. The story highlights selfless courage amid peril and mocks graft and crime days.
Ad claims Di Pierce's Favorite Prescription targets "weak women" with no alcohol and is sold by druggists in tibleta or liquid form. The wording implies gendered health claims and a simple over the counter remedy.
A candidate nicknamed Pull shows potential for a role but faces scrutiny over whether strength alone will secure a lasting place. Observers note that restraint and consistency may prove decisive as decisions loom.
The article notes England first issued adhesive stamps in 1839 with earlier decree dates and May 6 1810 public use. It credits James Chalmers of Dundee as the inventor, who died in 1853.
The note explains that United States territories do not vote for President in the same manner as U.S. states, highlighting different suffrage rules and implications for territorial residents.
Fragmentary lines recall a poetic exchange about a heart likened to glass and the impossibility of impressing it except by diamond. The dialogue hints at endurance and vulnerability with stark imagery.
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