Tax Amendment Fails to Pass While Savings May Yet Come
The article notes the failed taxation amendment but asserts no hardship to people or revenue. It explains a five mill cap at $400 million valuation, with current values around $165 million. It cites current school and state levies, forecasted needs, and a pending vote revaluation in two years amid highway and capitol cost pressures. A humorous cartoon caption contrasts a rich customer and an airily indecisive shop girl.
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Logan
St George
Church becomes classroom for walking lesson
A physical culture instructor uses a church to teach three women how to walk properly inside a sacred space. The sexton, surprised, watches as the instructor explains standards of gait and manners for devotion.
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Wren
Wasatch County Keeps Republican Edge With Two Democrat Wins
Official Wasatch County returns show Republicans winning most races while Democrats Knight and Wall secure sheriff and potential district wins. Notable tallies list Test, Howell, McCarty, Knight, Tingey, Owen, Nelson, and others across county offices.
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Wasatch County
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I. O Wall
Test
Bryan
Howell
Martineau
McCarty
Stewart
Spry
Tingey
Owen
Barnes
Stringfellow
Jewkes
Nixon
Elmer E. Corfman
Harvey H. Clafg
Andrew B Morgan
George W. Daybell
John M. Richie
J. W. Moffet
John J. Davis
Charles J. Walquist
John T. Giles
Joseph van Wagoner
I. O. Walt
Charles Q. Walquist
William Willes
William Buss
Patrick H McGuire
A. Wootton, Sr
Lauria Murdock
Edward Buys
A. M Todd
Orson Ryan
Future of Cooking Hinges on Chemical Process Laws
A forward looking view predicts women of the next generation will cook through chemical methods with regulated laws guiding technique. It argues results will rival grandmothers, who trusted the oven’s luck over any single recipe.
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Bea
London chimneys yield 60000 tons of soot yearly
The sweepings of London's chimneys produce about 60,000 tons of soot each year and it sells as fertilizer for around 260,691 dollars.
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London
Emerald trade and major Colombian mines described
The article notes most emeralds come from the Muzo mines in Bayaca Colombia, on the eastern slope of the Andes about 70 miles north northwest of Santa Fe de Bogota. It also mentions another mine Las Quez two days by mule from Biluca.
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Columbian
Bayaca
Santa Fe de Bogota
Strange English Weddings Amid Demolished Churches
A wedding occurred in a church already partially demolished to make way for a new building. In another case a church wedding was planned but the church burned, while firemen worked on the ruins as a wedding party walked through debris.
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Strangs
Christchurch
England
Coal Vendor Sells By A La Carte Style
An English coal seller boasts a French touch in casual speech. When a woman asks for prices he jokes that coal is 20 shillings a ton if bought a la carte and one shilling extra for the bags if cul de sac is chosen.
Not His Ambition Invention Debate Cited By Baltimore American
The Baltimore American quotes a debate on dust handling and experimental machines. One speaker notes testing a device to use dust while another suggests using a machine to raise it. The exchange highlights competing aims in industrial experimentation.
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Baltimore American
Easter Process Sparks Gown Change Over Complexion
In a brief exchange during a church Easter procession Fan You urges Nan to change her gown and complexion to harmonize with the event. Nan objects, insisting the change would not take long.
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Nan
Chang
Fan
Good Breeding and Social Compact, a Chesterfield Thought
A quotation from Lord Chesterfield on social order. It condemns immoral invasion of others property with the punishment of hanging, and marks ill breeding as banishment from society. It argues mutual complaints, attentions, and sacrifices form a compact between civilized people as protection and obedience between kings and subjects, with violation forfeiting benefits.
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Lord Chesterfield
Refused To Give Testimony And Pettifogged Tales
A fragmentary collage contrasts a recipe for rose paste and a moral tale about a boy named Frank. It discusses perfumed pastes, amulets, and a mother’s stern lesson on honesty and gentility for a five year old. The writing blends domestic craft with a child’s question about truth.
Wanted A Life Job Matrimony Satire in Ad Form
A weary man asks to place an ad in the paper. He jokes about seeking any old job then suggests marriage as the job to be “married for life.” TheCatholic Standard piece uses humorous wordplay on wages and matrimony.
Reservation Oats Pioneer Reports Thriving Boneta Farm
Clarence Peacock of Boneta, formerly Sunnyside, visited and praised the region. He noted a radish 23 inches long and 19 inches in circumference, and a three foot three inch oat head yielding 62 pounds per bushel. The new variety is the Regenerated Swedish Select crossed with Garrison Seed Variety of England. Peacock also said Joseph Wilkins moved to Doneta with Peacock, and the Farnsworth family’s 10 year old son in Prica is ill with pneumonia. He reported Boneta now has about 3090 inhabitants in Carbon County.
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Clarence Peacok
Boneta
Sunnyside
Guo
P. ©. Madsen
Manti
Thomases
Missouri
Joseph Wilkins
Peacock
Orangeville
Doneta
Davie Farnsworth
Prica
Beneta
Carbon County
Proposal Vexes Heiress’s Father in Sardonic Exchange
A young man seeks the heiress’s hand and faces the sharp wit of her father. The father jokes about which hand she signs checks with, turning a traditional marriage proposal into a comical moment.
Mending Rubbers at Home with Rubber Cement
Instructions from Harper's Bazar describe mending thin spots in rubber using a cement made from five cents of real rubber dissolved in chloroform. Keep the bottle corked and apply quickly with a mucilage brush before it hardens.
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Harper's Bazar
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