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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1919
Page
8
A fragmentary call to civic effort urges readers to boost community life. It promotes supporting church, neighbors, and local commerce while urging readers to stop hindering progress and to “boost” the city to its final letter.
Soldiers aboard Mount Vernon faced exodus as congressmen claimed berths and rooms, leaving battle hardened officers to concede to politicians. The piece argues heroism is unchanged and vulgarity persists in many leaders, postwar.
An ordinary man shops for his baby and a canary, facing taxes on cod liver oil and zinc stearate while bird seed remains untaxed. The piece laments baby penalties, recalls historic animal and marriage taxes, and mocks legislators with satirical asides about Congress and landlords.
Two late advertisements appeared in a New York newspaper seeking a teacher of mathematics and a barber. The notices list remuneration of 16.60 dollars for teachers and 30.00 dollars for barbers, reflecting local wage offers of the period.
A critique compares salaries for teachers with other professions highlighting low pay for math and history teachers. The piece argues that paying higher wages could attract qualified educators, ensuring education quality and American opportunity, and questions whether current pay reflects the value of education.
The piece argues children are the greatest asset and calls for frequent school based medical exams and access to doctors and nurses at every school. It notes 33 percent of young men failed physicals for preventable issues and urges early detection to improve future health and efficiency.
A reflection on family and civic harmony. It argues that successful communities resemble extended families, built on mutual help and forbearance. Individuals should yield on nonessential points, support neighbors projects, and control temper to achieve public improvements.
The fragment urges studying a person’s character to foster mutual warmth and consideration. It stresses cultivating the traits needed to collaborate successfully and contribute to community life.
Banking rates of interest have been lower during the war period and the volume of community work has doubled and trebled. Banks served as headquarters for War Drives while bearing heavier taxes under government operation. Despite burdens, banks have preserved healthy conditions and provided abundant money and credit to meet legitimate requirements, aiding industrial enterprises nationwide.
Steamboat Springs residents W F Cross Ralph Drake Bert Eddy and Nick De Drag returned from a 1000 mile auto journey to the Uintah basin and Salt Lake City. They spent eight days visiting Vernal and met former Routt county residents including lem atreet and families such as Fred Akhurst EB A Manker Jol Oakeson Angus Campbell Frank Colling and J L Remington. The Sheridan hotel in Steamboat to Vernal distance was 187 miles and to Salt Lake City 382 miles.
Vocational training under the federal Vocational Training Board will be given to about 4000 Utah soldiers. Only permanently disabled soldiers may attend college at government expense, with $7500 monthly support from the War Department for those wounded or disabled. Soldiers in Utah who are disabled are urged to contact their local draft board immediately.
Soldier Summit terminal work on the Denver and Itio Grand line will resume next week with about four hundred men to be employed in construction and track labor. The project, valued at roughly 1 million dollars, was halted last summer due to war economy. Salt Lake City officials expect the terminal to handle road business and possibly serve as the start of a new Uintah basin line toward Duchesne and Vernal. Much of the track and grading for the twenty six miles is already completed.
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