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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1909
Page
3
Classified fragment lists job ads and openings across a rural town. Wages and specifics are unclear due to OCR garble, but applicants are urged to apply at local addresses and businesses including a carpenter and pasture postings. Also notes a sale of granite ware and various goods at local stores with cotton blankets and coats advertised.
State Chemist Herman Clarms and Walter Liegd arrive in Vernal. Vernal Central School fields a basketball team while families visit from Long Tree and other towns. Joe Johnson plans to live at Lone Tree Wyoming. Joe Rich eyes coal hauling. Ed Whipple's bonds are posted, Martha Ruple sails to Theodore to teach, and Gerda Young sustains a broken arm. Vernal Nature Club organized with officers. plans meetings. Trank Milburn resigns from Uintah Railway. County Commissioner Brack Fens visits Vernal. Alice, 15, recovering from typhoid. River activities include an informal party and a beach breakfast. Next stop Green River City.
Local residents visit Glenwood Springs mineral baths and enjoy reports of crops and orchard yields. Miss Nellie Preece, deputy county clerk, and others make routine trips. Miss Elia Pack, a former Florida missionary, is now in Salt Lake City. Miss Hattie Perry ill with typhoid but improving.
The author extols planting Wolf River apple trees for display and sharing with neighbors and friends. They praise flavor and practical uses such as baking and stewing, note large yields, and suggest it as a wise investment. The piece also promotes Chamberlain's Liniment for injuries as a trusted home remedy.
11 Wootley threshes grain at his reservation farm and notes 283 bushels of oats from a small patch. Measurements from a school collection show heads ranging from eighteen to twenty and three inches of grain. the heads are heavy and the grain is good.
Than Galloway writes from Ouray on Sunday detailing a journey from Ashandra to Ouray and plans to reach Desolation Canyon in three days. They praise local hospitality and sustenance, noting canal goods and river water as provisions. The group looks to continue to edge tables in Arizona after passing the big canyon.
An advertisement urges relief from coughs through Chamberlain Cough Remedy sold by Vernal Drug Co. The copy emphasizes irritation from coughing and promotes the product as a cure or relief. The notice uses persuasive language typical of early to mid 20th century patent medicine ads.
Disjointed excerpts report Massey aiding a mine near Vernal Valley and electric poles being installed on the Taylor Hird corner. It notes Dllle Pack marrying Wesley Blazzard in the Salt Lake Temple and their plans to move to Thatcher Arizona and Kamiag. Mr Blazzard is described as a former president of the Florida conference of the southern states mission.
Professor Carl Douglass arrived from Queen River to Vernal with a large skeleton nearly complete but fears the head remains unattached. He believes it is the finest skeleton of its kind ever found. Two well preserved feet were found at a different site days earlier.
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