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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1923
Page
6
The article recalls early world cycling feats, noting that nearly all lands have been traversed by bicycle aside from the poles. It recounts dangers from snow tunnels in North America, a priest cursing a rider in China, and a rider dismantling his machine to survive a coinage shortage while in transit.
Officials warn the moose may become extinct in America within two decades due to illegal slaughter and limited open seasons. Laws exist to curb hunting, with quotas typically one or two males and female killing banned. Congress enacted strict Alaska moose protection in 1902 after rampant slaughter.
Helen, newly married to Ralph, receives a photograph she believes he had framed for her. After dinner the host reveals the framed picture belongs to the hostess, leaving Helen with an unframed likeness and a social mix up during wartime.
Report from the Lochmoor Golf Club locker room notes a man named Bill arriving at three in the morning. The joke implies his wife is upset, and another voice jokes about trading her for one who would greet him at that hour, as recounted by the Detroit News.
In Ashland Wisconsin magnets are used to load pig iron onto steamers. Each magnet lifts a ton and two magnets replace sixty men, saving fifteen hours for loading and similar time for unloading. The system picks up 70 pound pigs from the dock and places them in the holds efficiently.
A Japanese woman who could not finish her American dinner was urged by the hostess to try dessert. She quipped that she needed another stomach to eat more, highlighting the humorous intercultural dining moment.
A Minneapolis man proclaims he has worn the same straw hat for about fifty summers. The boast highlights a long lived headgear and personal pride in a simple daily staple.
In Hopkinton James Rogers seeks a fortune and finds a street side mystic Cleopatra. She predicts he will marry a light haired girl and warns against a dark haired man, sparking a lovers quarrel with Sarah Fellows. The tale ends with a humorous moral about reading futures for 25 cents versus $2.
Historical note claims thought speed ranges from 180 feet per second in humans to about two and a half inches per second in a mussel and three feet per second in cuttlefishes in winter. It links thinking speed to body temperature and temperament, noting drugs and fatigue affect impulse conduction but nerves never tire completely.
Ovens built in 1690 at a London bakehouse in Cornhill have long served civic banquets with meals that impressed past generations. Now they are being superseded by new early heated equipment as progress advances.
A French visitor aboard a Yankee shipyard learns a woodworker’s pun as he asks about a timber project. When asked what he’s making the man replies a yard, and when asked if it’s nearly finished he answers all but a yard. He explains timber comes from the yard, leaving the Frenchman in despair.
Gap Johnson talks with Rumpus Ridge on the porch at the crossroads store about doubt and opinions in the lines of a political discussion. A fellow voter for W J Bryan questions the speaker and moments of uncertainty arise as the dialogue wanders.
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