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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1940
Page
4
A Browning Missouri clipping combines publisher info and a humor filled column with reflections on free speech and daily life. Local items report visits, family gatherings, hay harvest, and neighbors calling on relatives in nearby Brookfield and Pur din with community ice cream gatherings.
A lengthy 95 minute speech by Hitler was interrupted on American radio. The broadcaster halted the program, deeming the duration excessive for U S airwaves.
Mrs. Delphine Haley and Betty visited Earnest Pearson. Trips to Kirksville New Sharon and Detroit are noted for various couples. Longwell funeral attendances, typhoid care, and a 41 pound watermelon gathering appear among multiple visits and social calls.
North Salem residents including Mr and Mrs Ellis Jennings and Vernon and Reva Jennings visited relatives in Kirksville while Mrs Hadley Jennings remains hospitalized. Local softball saw New Boston lose 4 to 2 to Salem at Salem. Community members attended shows and sheep sales with various visits to family homes and familiares.
Over the past ten days residents exchanged calls and reports. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs Craig Beckett in California on a visit, with mother and baby doing well at Brookfield hospital. Mrs Bud Gilmer and others helped cook for threshers. Funeral attendance from Purdin noted for Mr Morris. Dorothy Head visited friends in Purdin. Albert Enderly moved to a recently vacated home formerly occupied by Bill Miller.
Mr and Mrs John Longwell were called to Chillicothe Friday night by the illness and death of their nephew John Thomas Longwell who died at age. Monday dinner guests included Buford Dooley and Eva of Libertyville Illinois T M Smith John Tucker Archie Dickinson and Ronald Tripp. Afternoon visitors included Edith Hale Larry Effie Britton Jessie M Fay Bowyer and sons Ronald Raymond Bowyer. Ronald Tripp spent Monday afternoon with Eldon and Richard.
Notice to creditors and others interested in the estate of Sarah A. Mairs deceased that I R C Mullins Executor will file a final settlement at the next term of the Probate Court of Linn County Missouri at Linneus on August 12 1940 R C Mullins Executor
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