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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1911
Page
5
A local ironworker names his son Mat after a friend but jokes he is Mattress when asked by the friend about the name. A city girl quizzing a farmer ends with a playful milk question asking how to turn off a cow after milking.
Elks announce an excursion to Los Angeles leaving Salt Lake City February 4 and returning by March 7 via the Salt Lake Route. Tickets on sale February 4 only with details, rates, and reservations through A W Raybould Secretary Elks Club Salt Lake City Utah.
A story of a child raised strictly who tours the circus with a nurse and vows his mother will never attend prayer meeting again after hearing the spectacle. The piece also notes a quip about a Chinese cook and the risk of misinterpreting his singing or pain from burns.
A humorous strip compares modern youths in floppy hats winged trousers and carpet hoses with an old fashioned boy who exclaims geewhitaker and uses phrases like six ways from Sunday. The piece cites opinions from Los Angeles Expresa and Pittsburg Observer about Senator Smuge and trust.
Egbert denies implying his brother settled in Canada and states he thinks the brother went there to avoid being sent. The exchange shows tension over family plans and possible evasion.
Dialog shows Connie teasing about Grace and Dick after a quarrel over a proposal. Grace recalls accepting the proposal only the night before, prompting questions about the timing and the prior disagreement.
A humorous quip in the Dailimore American jokes about grave charges against Senator Jink as a sexton’s bills provoke amusement. The snippet reflects a light, satirical street tone with no factual allegation.
Carnegie Trust, a southern and western affiliated bank, closed its doors Saturday and the state superintendent of banks took possession. An application to appoint a committee to manage the person and estate of Joseph G Robin was denied by Justice Goff. Bank funds, including United States bankruptcy money and city and state funds, are tied up in varying levels of sufficiency.
At the National Woolgrowers convention in Portland resolutions endorsed the tariff law and officers for the next year were elected. Omaha will host the next national meeting. Frank A. Gooding, former Idaho governor, was chosen president of the association.
An explosion of several hundred pounds of dynamite in the thawing room at the Granite mine on Battie mountain Sunday morning wrecked mine buildings and shattered windows a half mile away with damage estimated between 20000 and 25000 though no one was seriously injured. A separate report notes the tragic death of rancher Larry Lynch in Lewistown after a accident with a load of hay. In Santa Rosa a child, Margaret Black, was killed when Manuel Desilva six years old fired a rifle at her in Sebastopol. her mother Mrs Joseph Thesilva resides nearby.
The Hev Du Boia Hieux, pastor of Center Congregational Church, Meriden, resigns after embracing socialism and writing a novel outlining modern social theories. Washington discusses a 4 to 5 million dollar addition to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill to be reported this week by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Paris eyes stricter liquor controls as a major policy issue. Cape Town notes a renewed color line debate with a marriage whites to colored ban proposed in Parliament. Sydney reports Australia’s population estimated at 4 474 000 across all states.
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