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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1930
Page
2
Local Jensen and surrounding area reports include residents’ travel, haying and boating on Blue Mountain, social clubs, and farming notes. A health column discusses diet, tanning, and cancer statistics, urging balanced habits and cautious sun exposure. Local visitors and businesses are mentioned.
Dr Hassler of the San Francisco public health office warns that bootleg liquor and tobacco use among youths, aided by fad diets and sunbaths, harm public health. He cites rising nephritis and kidney trouble, circulatory issues, heart disease, and cancer linked to these practices, with over four percent of students affected.
The Gilson Asphaltum company completed a concrete bath house at the Bonanza mine with a cement floor plaster, steel lockers for workers, hoisting gear for dirty clothes, and constant hot water for cleaning. Transients Dan Nelson and others moved from Rainbow to Bonanza. Mr and Mrs M Harden Nelson and daughter Marion visited Vernal, while Mr and Mrs Fada Pierre and daughter Ferris Lee spent the weekend in Vernal and Jensen.
Davis Alonzo Attwood Ray Chivers and Gordon Smuin returned from Wyoming where they sheared sheep last month. Angus Slaugh is able to be up and about again. A children’s dance and Gleaner girl banquet are described. Davis ward baseball beat Vernal second ward 3 11. Local youths enjoyed Stephen Adams ranch pool. Byron Hatch helps with hay. Emma Smuin staying with daughter Annie Atwood. Several residents visited and returned home from ranches and towns.
The article reports that extremely high frequency sound waves, called super senigg, may kill animals by bursting blood. it notes demonstrations by Charles Kellogg and claims that sound can extinguish fire, burn gas, and damage structures like organs and buildings.
A statewide dairy improvement report credits a fixed feeding and milking schedule with higher profits. Tests show consistent routines raised butterfat content, with one cow increasing from 2.5 to 3.8 percent after stripping and machine use, and January results noting 389,555 cows tested and 1,515 herds averaging over 23 pounds of butterfat per cow.
An article notes weather must be right for tomato pollination and describes artificial methods. A new device resembling an automatic pistol with a vibrator is proposed to aid pollination, claimed to work even on damp days. It highlights a shift to mechanical pollination to improve fruit set.
Cream should be separated to contain not less than 35 percent fat. Clean utensils are essential. When growing kohlrabi, try a Lovent packer. Smut must be removed from wheat before milling to flour, else discounts apply. Copper carbonate wash can reduce smut. Cow testing identifies high producers and those to cull. Guard against loafers in the herd. Cooling dairy products rapidly limits bacteria. frequent stirring speeds cooling. Dry cows need legume hay for calcium and protein.
An American and an Irishman trade a joke about a hen that laid a six inch egg in America. The Irishman replies that in Leland they can beat that with an egg beater, delivering a light punchline.
The writer argues that the idea the Middle Ages never existed is a myth popularized by humanist superstition. Symonds is cited as fueling a naive view of a long dark span from 476 to 1433, while the piece notes later critiques by Samuel Butler on human destinies in a corporate society.
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