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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1900
Page
3
All kinds of news from Vernal including mill toil notes, music events at Merrill ward Roberts Hall, and dance nights. The Mutuale roll tabs and cards are advertised. Ice harvesting and local shopping ads appear along with band rehearsals and a police matter about a $125 theft recovered in Richfield. Sheriff Garnishments target wages for a court judgment in Browns Park.
William McIntyre has refurbished the old shop and offers a range of goods for homes. He and two helpers seem quiet, but Harry Meadows is expanding his shop making outfit. Mack expects support as friends drop in to buy harnesses and other useful items produced at the shop.
A rich copper ore find in Split mountain near Island Park excites local prospectors. Merchants are linked to discoverer Milten Lyon as claims bonded to Lorenzo Hatch for 28000 dollars for thirty days. Owners price the property at 50000 dollars with a potential commission for Hatch. Early development suggests a strong vein and richer ore at depth, increasing future value.
An assortment of local items from Vernal Utah includes a published letter on the Jeasa Ewing mining district, plans for President Bennion’s Salt Lake City trip, bakery and bread offerings, calls to visit Alcazar Company performances, and social news. It notes Mrs Bates’ bakery, Mrs Ed Robinson visiting, Hon William O’Neil’s near-term move to Dear Lodge, and a clearance sale at Boera Store. Also details a J A Holdaway address change to Aleppo, Syria, Imperial Dramatic Company’s Fort Duchesne trip, and a Naples precinct meeting protesting Roberta’s exclusion from Congress with speakers including William O’Neil and J B Shaffer.
On January 27 the ward entertainment committee will host a grand ball at the Social Hall in honor of Benjamin Franklin's 194th birthday. The Polaris Club urges colonial dress but clarifies it will not be masquerade attire. Invitations note optional costumes, yet the event aims to be the season's social highlight.
The Vernal Drug Company, a well regulated pharmacy, markets many in house products. The list includes compounds such as Buropol White Pine Hliss Beef Iron and Wine Red Crops Liver Pile Hod Qroas Anti-constipa on Pijla Mapre Headache Cure and Bjornson's Tooth ache Drops with various salves, lotions, and creams.
Readable fragments from a Vernal area column recount debts unsettled in town, marriage of King Lewis and Miss Margaret Herbert, and Collett brothers planning extended time at the Bromide mine. It notes a wintering sheep camp on Blue Bill Ridge, a friendly church visit by Pomvitoh, and a Morrill ward concert to fund an organ.
Harry Meadows partners with T to run a general dry goods business and a full line of boots and shoes. Dan Hurley continues selling shoes. The venture, located in the back room of the New Stord building, promises strong growth. The Thala Club met January 1 at Mrs. Dillman’s home and adjourned to the Odd Fellows Hall for a new club room.
The itemized notes describe Charles H Davin’s expected return home for a concert in Merrill ward on Tuesday night, and P Coltharp’s morning departure for Bengley for four or five days. Also noted are plans for Alcazar Company’s first play next week, Marcellus Pope’s Open office setup near the Utah Hotel, John Siddowly’s Vernal return, John G. Davis’s Wyoming visit, and Mrs. Anderson’s missing cows with a later arrest of Ed McKee and Jos Steinaker for grand larceny tied to the cattle.
A garbled clipping references valentines and comic valentine lines from Verna Drag Co and Chicago papers. It mentions a couple married, a locket, and a playful Noah joke about entering an ark, with fragmented quotes and misspelled attributions from Chicago Daily News and Chicago Tribune.
A garbled set of Victorian era musing and telegramtic glimpses, mentioning a near fatal incident with a barber, shipwreck survivor dispatches, and quirky asides about personal reactions. Names and places drift through a collage of quoted fragments and social commentary.
Troops from Manila push north in multiple columns aiming to trap Aguinaldo. MacArthur’s forces advance toward the northeast while Lawton Wheaton and other units move along the central plains toward Cabanatuan Carrangton and Lingayen Gulf areas. Aguinaldo reportedly fled toward the mountains near Bayombong as American detachments converge on his path.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Maj Logan and a vessel named Charleston struck ten miles east of an inland location with crew seeking refuge. Details are garbled and names unclear, but refer to a maritime incident and survivors on a nearby reef.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions cigars, a professor and Do little, questions about a gopin aK Doall Basen, and a Detroit Free Press reference. It appears as a collection of clipped dialogues and stray names with no cohesive narrative or clear event.
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