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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1897
Page
1
The town sees growing traffic as 18 dwellings are occupied or rented and a vacant house awaits. Overland wagons stop daily, Denver to Salt Lake via a shorter 200 mile route with feed and pure water available.
The article notes unseasonably warm conditions since last week's storm and boasts exceptional potato crops in Ashley valley. It highlights record large tubers from Camp and Wm Ashton, with mentions of irrigation and cultivation skills as key factors. It also oddly references LDS conference travel rates and a dated misprint about 1807.
An eccentric, error filled piece extols Alaska with wild claims of vast distances, frozen ground, giant forests, and gold fissures. It mentions mosquitoes, poisonous flies, no snakes, and mentions Dawson and Sitka with dubious figures. It promotes mining and trading, urging readers to wait and buy mines.
The Denver Republican reports Hon W N Dusenberry of Provo Utah praising Colorado Utah ties. He notes similar prosperity, cites Grand Junction fruit day, and cites high freight costs and silver prices impacting Utah mines while optimism grows for renewed western progress through push and enterprise.
A dispatch from Kansas City reports Jas delfries of Camden, chairman of the McKinley appointed commission to allot Uncompahgre and Uintah lands to Utah, left Mangas City with Majo Ross Gaffina for the West in Africa. Howell P. Myton joins the party. they head to Green River valley to prepare for a long allotment process and April settlement opening.
List of names of dartmaidens attending Crow Indian Agency school in Montana. Names include Clara Spotted Horse Hdith Long Ear Kitho Medicine Tail Lona Liile Bear Clara Bull Nose and others.
The Albany Argus recounts the tale of Bho Telton a Tower Thariton a creature able to reproduce severed limbs and eyes in rodents and other specimens. Reports claim a leg regrew twelve times in three years while an eye re formed in under a year highlighting extraordinary regenerative claims.
A damaged excerpt from a historical journal discusses Indian words and meanings. It mentions terms like gosh and guwheteke with uncertain translations and notes on how youth words for stars may evolve. The text cites Rhode Island Historical Society cataloging and references fields about language roots.
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