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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1918
Page
5
Locals report residents visiting nearby towns on business yesterday and attending events. Notices list sales, obituaries impending, church conferences, marriages, and a Navy enlistment with transfers.
The piece describes a government plan to log Liberty Bond investors and those who refuse to buy. Secret Service will access names in the Treasury, with yellow cards carried by salesmen noting reasons for nonparticipation. Proposals include penalties for disseminating disloyal propaganda and a campaign labeling noninvestors as slackers.
A patriotic call urges Americans to buy Liberty Bonds to support the war effort. It warns of German aggression and imperial brutality, stresses home-front sacrifice, and links bond purchases to national survival and Allied victory.
In Audrain County Missouri a plan led by Mrs. C F Clark sends a trainload of young pigs to the St Louis market. Proceeds will buy Liberty Bonds and support soldiers overseas. Farmers back the effort as pigs become money for the cause.
Moving pictures in seven states and parts of others will educate patrons with slides and trailers supplied by a national Washington organization. The films remind viewers of the duty citizens owe to their country during the present crisis.
In the Eighth District banks push a weekly installment plan for the Third Liberty Loan starting April 6. St Louis bankers contract 46 of 47 banks to offer pass books with minimum 2 percent weekly payments and yearly payoff, aiming for 128000 subscribers and broad public advertising to boost war financing.
Real estate dealer G. L. Campbell of Hopkinsville Kentucky proposes trading a farm in exchange for Liberty bonds and declares he will accept no other payment.
Sergeant Terry Murphy of the Canadian Expeditionary forces returns to St Louis with a harrowing account from the West Front. He recalls his battalion the Forty-eighth Highlanders and their grim vow Take no prisoners amid German savagery. He describes being shot in the leg and a Bavarian bayonet piercing his helmet and skull while addressing a Liberty Loan gathering in Pacific Missouri.
A roll of honor lists new and renewing subscribers to the home paper. Names include Ella M. Shore Union Star Missouri Ena Watson route 1 Daniel Nickell Great Lakes Illinois J E Crawford route 1 J N Maggart Leoffler W J Ford DeQuincy Louisiana C J Ingraham route 4 Emmett Haley route 3 C P Oaks city H Arnold Great.
A fragmented notice lists several individuals and places including Lakes, Newfoundland and Labrador. J. S. Spencer of Mona Montana. Miss Gertrude McColl. Mrs. Abigail Wallace of New Boston. A R Wallace of Witten Oak. W F Wilson of Brookfield. George Williams of Red Oak Iowa. L C Dell Route 1. W R Ware Newport. R L by Mrs WY Ware. and C L McQuown Route 4.
The good people of Cora and vicinity will hold a pie supper at the school house on Saturday night April 27 to benefit the Third Liberty Loan. Sullivan county's farm agent and several four minute men will speak. Come and bring friends. Done by order of Duncan township sale directors. G M Spencer J L Shepherd Joe Nickell
The Dillinger family expresses gratitude to the people of Browning and vicinity for acts of kindness shown during the burial of A. R. Dillinger. Signed by Mrs. A. R. Dillinger and Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Dillinger.
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