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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1897
Page
2
A San Francisco grocer pledges a money back guarantee if customers are not satisfied. The firm claims adherence to the advertised condition and states it will pay the involved supplier a commission.
The article discusses a fast paced American life fueling neurasthenia and vision defects, linking Wall Street fever and social ills to a spectacle of nearsightedness. It notes measures in colleges, civic groups, and police records to study physical traits and criminal types. It includes an anecdote about a decapitated bandit and a headless body walking, raising questions about thought without a head.
A Hythe woman known for living on bread and butter throughout her life has never tasted meat fish vegetables or jam and claims to have sustained herself on a minimal diet. Her regimen has drawn attention as an extreme example of longevity by simple eating.
Articles discuss stubborn diet resistance by a long term bread and butter eater and then catalog quirky beard myths. Russia enforces fines for beard removal while beards affect views on paradise and heaven in Turkish and Russian lore.
The text notes Japanese beliefs about fingernails and travel, forbidding nail cutting before a journey and at night. It warns that throwing clippings into a fire invites calamity, and a nail fragment falling into the fire predicts imminent death.
A Waally of Sisty-Two Children discusses penstonting Mrs Maddalena Grannalta near Nocera twelve miles from Naples. Her husband is dead but they lived as man and wife for years. They had sixty two children born, eleven sets of twins in nine years, triplets on two occasions, and four boys born at least once, with a girl among them.
The article profiles Jules Verne at 68 in Amiens. It notes his early rising writing routine and disciplined study before producing serialized country themed stories. He spends evenings with his wife at the Grand theater and avoids Paris for eight years. It also mentions a Baltimore doctor claiming the largest book, a 280 pound 7 ounce volume, with a 60 pound cover and two pad locks, costing $65.
The fragment discusses when the ancient calm may have begun and who coined early money. It mentions Herodotus as lather of history, the Lydians inventing coinage, Persian gold coins under Darius with a bust and kneeling archer, and Julius Caesar as the first to face his image on a coin.
A collection of curiosities notes the moon’s synchronous rotation and orbit, a deep coal mine near Andre du Poirier, France, a Paris wine cask from 1895, Douglas the Ute chief’s skull in a Colorado town, a Brashe $16 gold piece of 1786, Arkansas towns Credit and What Cheer, Florida’s Hurrah, George Greenwood born 1826 in Malden Maine, and a lightning photographed window pane in Argyle North Dakota.
A peculiar wooden timepiece called Dorset's queer watch was made by Victor Corlot of Bristol Tennessee about twenty years ago. The briar root case housed mostly wood gears with metal springs, and the face resembled polished ivory from a cow shoulder blade.
Brass coins weighed 4000 grams allegedly in Rome while China used iron dagger coins. Pluchetta faced empires and coin faces first appeared with Archelaus of Macedon. In 43 BC Hebrews minted early coins and St Patrick half penny circulated in Ireland. The mite Greek coin weighed about 18 grains.
A Race of Dwai notes inhabitants of the Andaman Islands as the world's smallest people. Reported averages place full grown Andaman heights under four feet and many individuals under 75 pounds according to visiting anthropological experts.
A grand jury in the United States court found a true bill this afternoon against Captain Edmund Murphy. He is charged with having taken a filibustering party to Cuba aboard the steamer Laurada last summer. Murphy was recently wrecked on the steamer Commodore off the Florida coast. Senator Wolcott of Colorado is referenced in relation to a bimetallic agreement discussion. A first glass manufactory was established at Sandwich Massachusetts in 1845.
A sensational Springfield scene marked the retirement of Gov John P Altgeld. After his successor John T Tanner spoke, State Senator Maloney pressed for floor access but was blocked. The joint assembly dissolved and adjourned with Altgeld expecting to speak. Republicans blocked Democrats from being recognized during the session. Also Philadelphia Times granted a new trial in the ex Mayor Smith case, verdict $45 000.
The notice records dividends paid on a pyramiding plan by E. F. Dean Company to Salt Lake City customers with dates from August 15, 1896 to December 1, 1900, claiming profit for 106 days. It promotes contact for information and agents Atlas black Salt Fakerty Clark Young.
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