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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1913
Page
8
The report notes high divorce and separation rates in the U S since 1912 while urging citizens to take active steps to improve local conditions. It extols home neatness, urges spending at home, and promotes self help, civic engagement, and support for local businesses.
Official financial condition reports for Browning Missouri banks dated March and April 1913. Statements cover Browning Savings Bank Peoples Bank Farmers Exchange Bank with details on capital stock, surplus, profits, and deposits. Names of officials and notaries appear in the sworn attestations.
The Browning Leader Record itemizes Joseph Nickell as editor and owner with Browning Missouri address, sworn before a notary on March 31 1913. A local shop advertises a dripping glass balloon guessing game offering a 25 cent purchase or on account ticket to guess when water will drip out.
An ad offers all undertaker supplies including copper lined caskets grave vaults robes and suits. Buyer urged to view before purchasing. Located 134 miles southwest of Browning Missouri under T B Mundell.
An offer describes filing on 320 acres of government land in Wyoming with a $2200 filing fee. It notes potential to buy 160 more acres at $1.25 per acre, a new homestead law, three year title, and residence requirements reduced to 21 months with five months away annually.
Browning Public Schools Board offers one year of free King High School scholarship to one student from each of Duncan and Pleasant Hill townships in Sullivan County and Enterprise Benton and Jackson in Linn County. Applicants must not have completed eighth grade work by 1913 1914. J D Burwell Clerk. Teachers urged to enter pupils. contact Peters Produce Co for info.
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