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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1940
Page
3
The article outlines broad industrial uses for abrasive materials and hard stones. It notes applications in trimming grinding wheels mineral boring wire drawing dies and the shaping of hard stone. Additional roles include glass beveling optical works and machinery for cutting fiber metals and hard compounds.
Fragmentary note discusses self reliance and fortune. Mentions Benjamin Franklin and an energy linked to development. Language is garbled and unclear, with miswritten phrases and ambiguous references.
London reinforces air raid precautions with sandbags while daily life continues. Citizens carry gas masks, cinema remains popular, and streets appear calm under warnings. Public safety measures are streamlined to meet the emergency as raiders loom.
A collage of quirky notes touches on pay-paw uses in Bermuda, culinary notes on green fruit and ripe desserts, Hollywood blade testing, a carnival daredevil in Michigan left with a shoulder injury, ancient Rome soapless baths, New York Public Library visitation in 1939, English linen origins, Audubon first folio auction price, and marine fossils signaling ancient seas in the Grand Canyon Painted Desert region.
The text reports three presidents of the United States dying on the nation’s birthday, naming John Adams and Jefferson Monroe as among them. It also mentions July births and claims Greenland as the largest island outside an unnamed continent, asserting Greenland as the world’s largest island.
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