Purdin Notes Highlight Local Visits and Events
A Purdin report notes a St. Louis sister of Mrs. Tom Fields visiting this week and Jake Barnes nearing return to work at Purdin Mercantile Co. Browning Chautauqua draws large local attendance. Bill Miller builds concrete blocks at Cora. The Keokuk excursion allowed viewing of the big dam opening. Roy Wheatcraft improves at home of Mrs. Becca McGhee. Miles Hutchinson buys a loud Claxton horn. Purdin Street Fair slated for September 26 and 27 with strong local enthusiasm. Brown Medicine Show to resume performances early next week and continue through the week.
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Bill Miller
Cora
Keokuk
Roy Wheatcraft
Becca McGhee
Miles Hutchinson
Proclamation Calls Linn County Men for 1918 Road Duty
Missouri proclamation by Governor Major urges Aug 20 21 as good road days. Linn County Court requests all able bodied male citizens to report for road work with teams and tools. The clerk P F Walsh certifies the record dated August 5 1913 1918 with official seal.
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Elliot W. Major
Missouri
Finn
State of
Linn
P. F. Walsh
Browning Creamery Company Sets Annual Meeting Date
The Browning Creamery Company will hold its annual stockholders meeting in Browning on Tuesday August 26 at 2 p.m. at the opera house. Shareholders are informed to attend in person or by proxy. R H Hamilton president and Joe Nickell secretary sign.
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The
Browning Creamery Company
Browning
Opera House
R. H. Hamilton
Joe Nickell
Sec’y
Barn foundations under way and local sickness noted
In Northeast Linn County Ben Cattey begins the foundation of a new barn while Lon Johnson’s baby is very sick with flux. Frank Cattey arranges ground materials for a new cellar as Sam Stufflebean and Isaac Baker thresh the neighborhood this week. Mrs W W Jones remains ill at her daughter Mrs F M Cattey’s home. Additional text notes a person named McCollum who was sick.
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Lon Johnson
Sam Stufflebean
Isaac Baker
W. W. Jones
F. M. Cattey
Eres McCollum
Infant Daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy Hart Dies at Eight
An infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy Hart died Sunday morning at eight o'clock. Elder C E Potter of Browning has held meetings at Cattey this past week. Mrs Nancy Baker of St Catherine visits relatives here. Cahoon and wife visited Mrs W W Jones who is seriously ill. A heavy rain Monday morning improved prospects for drought relief in the area.
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Mrs. Roy
Hart
C.E. Potter
Browning
The
Cattey
Nancy Baker
St. Catherine
Cahoon
W. W. Jones
Undertaker's Supplies in Browning Missouri
Advertises copper lined caskets grave vaults robes suits and slips for undertakers inquiries invited at 1 3 4 miles southwest of Browning Missouri by T B Mundell.
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T. B. Mundell
Browning
Keeping Highways Good and Federal Aid Inquiry
Local item notes the year promises to be the greatest in the movement to improve and maintain public highways in the United States. A joint congressional committee investigates the feasibility of federal aid for highway construction and maintenance.
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United States
Congress
Maintenance and safety push in road and public health policy
The piece urges steady annual maintenance funding for roads, warning that neglect leads to ruin, and it notes a post office rule punishing misused mail. It discusses newspaper advertising value, weed control by law, corn by products, and the dangers of filth in homes and villages as epidemics persist without cleanliness.
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Post Office
Carlessness
Order of Publication in Linn County Missouri Court
Legal notice in Linn County Missouri from 1913 orders service issues for defendants not in state. It directs publication in Browning Leader Record four weeks to foreclose and quiet title to Lot Two, Section Eighteen, Township Sixty Range Nineteen, with Oct 6 1913 term and a true copy from the record signed by J D McLeod Circuit Clerk.
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Lim
Brookfield
Virgil A. Ware
Charles I. Gooch
Floyd. Tattershall
Clara Wright
Christopher Irving
James W. Chenoweth
Kate Pool
May Robertson
John S. Chenoweth
William Chenoweth
Maggie Hale
John 8. Chenoweth
Missouri
I. Gooch
Irving
Linn County
Lion
Browning Leader-Rercord
Linn
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Browning, Missouri
Joseph Nickell
Browning, Mo
Purdin
Tom Fields
St. Louis
Jake Barnes
Purdin Mercantile Co
Brown Medicine Show
Northeast
Ben Cattey
Frank Cattey
Undertaker
Agricultural Department
L.clark
Birds Eye
J. B. Fleming
H. E. Epperson
Stark Bro’s Nurseries & Orchards Co
Stark
Stark Nursery
Louisiana, MO
Circuit Court
J. D. McLeod
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