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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1912
Page
5
The Vernal Express Publishing Company lists subscription options with annual, six month, and monthly rates and notes a price for advertising space. Ashley Bartlett is identified as managing editor.
A Vernal bond election drew 76 of 108 voters, provoking harsh commentary on civic apathy. The letter denounces cowardice and complacency, urging residents to engage, face taxes, and oppose excessive spending.
A humorous yet pointed unsigned letter mocks fashionably dressed bakers and urges action on delinquents. The note, printed in the paper, suggests growing disorder and uses vivid imagery of bread and clothing to threaten reform.
The Seventh International Dry Farming Congress will convene in Lethbridge Alberta from October 21 to 26. It is expected to be the year’s largest and most educational agricultural gathering with invitations sent to leading figures in agricultural development and logistics.
A Windsor Colorado writer laments dry farmers sticking to shallow plowing while noting he produced wheat last year. ER Parsons, a longtime eastern Colorado dry farmer, asserts Douglass County had no one who raised anything last year who plowed less than eight inches.
Instructions describe preparing a corn germination box with moistened sawdust and cloth coverings in a warm place. Classifieds include a wanted well broke work mare and trade cows, a note about a musical and literary entertainment at the Congregational Church on Friday evening March 29, and a for sale listing for a house with water, orchard, and one acre of ground by Rollin Walker in Vernal.
A Ravenna Republican speech by A Robinson, president and GM, urges advance payment for subscriptions. He details the paper's system, including receipts, expiration dating, and mail routines, noting that no subscriber is let go without renewal checks and reminder letters.
A fragment describes continuing a subscription effort after removing dead recipients and pausing some copies. 1000 letters were printed and stocked. changes to old methods faced initial grumbling mainly from long-time arrears. The text also lists rental ads and notices for local properties and items for sale, reflecting a diverse, rough classified section.
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