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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
3
Mixed notices advertise items for sale including a white waists and white skirts, a good organ, flowers, and housework help. Local business mentions include the Desert News agent F M Young and Vernal Soda Water Co. Public library hours are listed as 3 to 9 pm in the Dillman building Vernal avenue.
The notice lists a concert program for Saturday at the Tabernacle. It invites attendance and previews performers and program order in a concise, period-voice listing.
Vernal area ads highlight Patriot Streetman and Wright shoes at the Co op plus belts shirts and undergarments. Local stores list prices for ladies belts skirts hats and parasols and sale items at Vernal Trading store with notes on stoves hay and pigs for sale along with a Vernal School of Music listing and a Porosknit reference.
iMen's overalls are 75 cents per pair and cotton socks sell for 10 cents each or 90 cents per dozen at the Vernal Trading store.
Seldenly at the Co op offers a tough durable product for men with strong sales. The item excels in finish and longevity, positioning it as a top choice in its category at local retail outlets.
Dry Gulch Irrigation Co in Roosevelt Wasatch County Utah announces a directors meeting on May 7 1998 assessing twelve and a half cents per share payable in cash to the secretary. Delinquent shares as of June 10 1908 will be advertised for sale and sold June 20 1908 to cover the delinquent assessment and sale costs. Lincoln George Y Mitchell secretary Roosevelt Utah May 15 June 5
Mrs Mansel Pleydell describes Moorish charms used by women to attract or renew affection. One involves a warmed clay ball containing shredded undergarment worn by the man, kept near embers to sustain heat of love. A second uses donkey ear tips cooked into the man's food to make him foolishly enamored.
A landlord installed a foldaway stair system in a storefront loft to aid a tenant. The tenant lowered the steps for a chosen few while ignoring others, prompting the landlord to ask for an explanation. The tenant claimed whispers indicated creditors were present, and the hinges remain in use.
The census shows Icelanders live about 61.8 years on average, roughly double the life expectancy of a generation ago, with Sweden at 60.2 years and Norway at 41.994 years. Icelandic life is described as steady with few major shocks, while regular steamship visits bring limited news from Leith to Reykjavik.
A chemist explains turning discarded boots and shoes into combs. Leather is cut, treated in sulfur chloride, washed, ground to powder, mixed with glue, and pressed into comb molds. The narrator jokes about preferring rubber, avoiding feet-derived products.
A Baltimorean recalls George Ade wintering in Heypt and poking fun at locals who study Arabic yet stumble in conversation. At Assouan a St Joseph woman fails to understand her guide, prompting Ade to quip that she should hire a younger guide as the old ones speak only gum Arabic.
Mrs. Rosa Pottz of Birmingham Alabama reports relief from biliousness and constipation after using Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. She notes the product calmed her irritable stomach, improved appetite and vitality, and aided digestion naturally. Sold by Vernal Drug Co.
A sculptor explains that creating a bronze statue requires vast prep. The clay core is covered with thousands of sand blocks to form a mold. After drying, blocks are removed, rebuilt, and the core is shaved by a quarter inch. The mold is centered with iron rods, molten bronze fills the space, then the core is extracted and the statue touched up.
A French medical inquiry notes enduring use of old remedies like opium and iodine while leeches fall from favor. In Paris in 1876 fifty thousand leeches were sold, dropping to twelve thousand. elycreo phosphates and antipyrine fell by sixty percent. quinine down twenty four. meanwhile newer drugs such as pramidmon and asperine show huge sales gains.
A keeper notes a snake plagued by toothache after tearing its cage in a frenzy. He jokes that snakes jab their fangs into objects and suggests a snake dentist to lecture on fang hygiene. Mentions other captive animals with various ailments.
A Chicago man rose from repeated failed ventures to wealth via a wheel invention. His wife and two young daughters soon joined him in a motor car. During a park drive the inventor's wife appeared tense while one daughter cheerfully urged her mother to relax and stop staring at the water.
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