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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1897
Page
3
A short note promotes Schilling's Best tea as well graded fresh roasted and air tight packed. It guarantees full refund if the customer dislikes it, and claims no other tea offers such a policy.
A London Times report on the thirty seventh annual Society for Promoting the Employment of Women notes rising demand for women clerks and bookkeepers while many men seek work. It highlights women filling roles as half dressers cooks and waitresses and cites a large urban job-seeking population with limited opportunities.
A vivid portrait of Miss Susan a refined young lady of about five summers she shows aloofness and elegance in public denying rudeness with measured pride. Her incident at the street when Uncle rebukes her ends with a witty line she mistook him for auntie.
The oldest national flag in the world is Denmark’s. It has been in use since 1219, marking a long history of the Dannebrog as a symbol of the realm and its people.
Rates for the annual conference of L D.S. and Woman's conference from Ogden to Salt Lake City and return via Rio Grande Western railway are listed for numerous towns with varying fares. Tickets available April 3–6 from Ogden Bingham Springville Silver City and intermediate points, with date limits and exceptions for Grand Junction Fruita Cisco.
The notice promotes saving with Zion's Savings Bank and Trust Company of Salt Lake City offering 5 percent interest on any amount from 1 dollar upward. It encourages starting an account and contributing regularly. Presidents Wilford Woodruff and George M Cannon are named.
Poem-like piece urging a boy to honor duty and faith as fate, God, and time shape life. Mentions a father’s prayers, youth facing alarms, and the call to become a man despite temptations and hardships. Frank Putnam appears as author.
A son dismissed his father warning and joined bad company. He boasts of knowing when to stop, but years later stands in court facing a guilty verdict and recalls his downward drift begun by disobeying parents. He warns peers to heed parental advice and avoid ruin.
An account describes the zebra wolf as a singular Tasmanian marsupial not related to zebras or wolves. It details its dog like face striped fur and pouch, nocturnal habits, swift daytime avoidance, and the threat of extinction.
An Astoma dispatch reports a bizarre marine animal, possibly the only known Northwest specimen, found dying on the Tillamook shore. The strange creature, described as neither fish nor typical sea life, astonishes locals and experts alike.
A washed up sea creature on the beach attracted a passerby who found a fishlike body with a large beak jointed jaws and long arms. The six foot creature has a beaverlike tail and eight five foot arms each with teeth in cup shaped cavities. The head and eyes are green and the skin is horned and tough.
A native farmer's young bull named Hulo battles a rhinoceros on a Zulu frontier farm. The rhinoceros wounds the bull with thigh stabs while bullets fail, but steel bullets and belaboring the creature finally end the fight as Hulo roars in victory.
The dog Spex owned by Doge Glass Fye Joho Wimmer is a nine year old pug with a grafted glass eye. He tolerates eye cleaning but will not rest while the eye is out. He is noted for smoking a pipe and adopting six dramatic poses from youthful zeal to dejected ruin.
A Waterloo veteran, aged years, has been discovered among inmates at the Nottingham workhouse in England. The report notes his condition and the unlikely meeting of past service with current residence, highlighting concern for elderly veterans.
A Cleveland financier hosted a chestnut party using a chestnut scatter under a tree. Guests gathered nuts but a quick check revealed the nuts lay on an oak tree, revealing the prank behind the ruse.
The anglican clerical headgear issue divides churchmen over the beretta versus the traditional square cap. A vicar's clerkly dilemma ends with a joke about borrowing an umbrella as rain delays the preacher in a village church.
The Murray Creek colliery in New Zealand's southern province is the smallest mine, run by one man, T Bolitho, who owns and operates it with a donkey aid. Another tiny mine in the same area employs one man plus a donkey. In England, Nelson Lancashire hosts the next smallest, a two‑miner village operation run by father and son who own manage and mine, selling all output locally.
In a dreary front room Elsie greets a visitor after a quarrel with her parent. She fears her old Har will not call. A familiar voice enters, and Elsie embraces him, declaring relief at making up. The scene ends with a gas collector as an offhand observer in Spare Moments.
A fragment notes religious reflection on trust in providence and worry, urging present duty and reliance on God. It then reports a New York incident where Adot Phus Doncourt of Flushing, L I, had a flea in the ear causing intense pain until it was dislodged with hot water and a hooked syringe after an hour.
In a tale from Exemplar of Finance a youthful heir asks his noble father who William Chennings Pryan was. The old man smiles and hints at hidden secrets about a future toll for feisty cent, then the boy returns to his counting stool.
In a brief exchange the man in the yellow ulster jokes about a glass eye while the other questions whether it could ever suffer a pane, ending with a cold glassy stare recorded by the Indianapolis Journal.
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