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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1912
Page
3
A north of England town story recounts a shiftless man who relied on charity and painted landscapes with cows in water. Aunt Millie notes the cows never stand on green hills, asking why, and the artist replies he never learned to paint hoofs.
Mrs. J Brooksher describes two years of facial skin trouble in Moberly Missouri. She says Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment cured her after a month by cooling the skin and draining matter. The ad claims worldwide sales and offers a free sample with a 32 page Skin Book.
A reader poem quotes Smart Set humor about why the least worthy men sometimes win favorable wives. The reply jokes that the reader should ask her husband and offers a witty counterpoint in a brief exchange.
Paxton Toilet Co. Boston offers Paxtine Antiseptic at 25c a box or by mail for nasal catarrh. The ad suggests both men and women spend much time deceiving themselves, reflecting on vanity and self-image.
A promotional note warning against imitation products urges asking for LEWIS' Single Binder cigar. The text plays on sayings about a smooth man being slippery and a free thinker being unmarried, concluding with a quip about luck meaning debt.
At the American Institute of Electrical Engineers meeting in Boston, Putnam A. Bates reports irrigation followed by electric power pumping drives progress in arid western farming. He notes many farms in that region are already electric farms with lighting and labor tasks automated by electricity. The push aims to broaden practical electrical use in agriculture.
The article notes up to date farmers use electric devices to groom cows improve milk supply and cleanliness. It describes telephones in field use irrigation pumps light heating and powering milking equipment and barns and highlights a Morristown New Jersey dairy using 220 volt electric lighting and a ten horsepower motor for operation and feed handling.
Former New York Fire Chief Edward F. Croker plans a dramatic test of fireproof construction. He will build a $30,000 suburban house using fireproof blocks and materials and fill rooms with wood shavings and kerosene to prove the structure and furnishings resist flames. The home will feature Italian villa styling with metal and chemically treated floors and fireproof furniture.
Dialogue snippet shows Mr Gowit proposing joining the Society for the Prevention of Crime to paint the town and have expenses paid, with Reggy Riverside-Great Caesar reacting. The exchange highlights theatrically humorous motives behind joining a crime prevention group.
Dialogue recalls a family moment with Mr Cadley and Pa Hulky discussing Mamie and Carrie and their piano abilities and happiness.
A fragment from On the Farm describes farm youths eager to help despite unclear phrasing. The dialogue centers on willingness and the playful mispronunciation of words, offering a glimpse into rural life and humor.
The letter from E. B. Gills describes severe itching and disfiguring ringworm on face and neck. After five weeks of trying soap and ointment without relief, Resinol Soap and Ointment provided a complete cure, with the author urging others to try the product and requesting samples from Resinol Chem Co Baltimore Maryland.
The Widener fortune will donate books to Harvard University from Harry Elkins Widener who perished on the Titanic. P A B Widener will fund a building to house the volumes. Notable items include a first Folio Shakespeare and a premier set of Robert Louis Stevenson works.
In a humorous exchange a boy cries over his lesson in natural history. The parent is surprised a child his age studies nature, but the boy is determined to grasp the distinction between a wasp and a fly.
An unclear draft mentions plans to form a network of successful agents overseen by a firm identified as HUGRO MANUFA. Details on products or dates are fragmentary, with emphasis on a vacuum cleaner project and distribution approach.
A brief editorial note argues education should increase a child’s ability to work and gain benefits, criticizing those who rely on help without productive labor. It quotes Eph Wiley observing men with long chins are prone to grow whiskers, illustrating idle attitudes.
In Covington Missouri and Brownsville Indiana a woman reports that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound provided relief beyond that from doctors. One physician warned of an operation for a serious female ailment and inability to stop hemorrhages left her near death before the remedy built her strength.
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