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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1942
Page
5
Milan and nearby towns report a flurry of visits with relatives friends and soldiers. Numerous residents traveled to Kansas City St Louis and Jefferson Barracks for work welcome home and enlistment plans while local families hosted guests and moved for seasonal housing.
A representative from the Office of Joseph Missouri announces a visit in Brookfield at the local Post Office on 8:30 am to interview claimants, employers, and others seeking information about the Federal O M Ace and Survivors Insurance Program.
Authorized announcement names C. F. Eubanks as Republican candidate for Judge of the Probate Court in Sullivan County Missouri. Local notices also report numerous Sunday visits, travels, and family gatherings across Brookfield Milan and nearby towns with multiple households hosting relatives and friends.
Mrs M L Haning and Mrs Nellie Seaman visited Milan on business Tuesday. Mr and Mrs J H Calhoun dined with Mr and Mrs R M Calhoun Sunday. Dewey Miller son of D D Miller departed Tuesday for Jefferson Barracks to enter the army. Leonard E Hart son of Mr and Mrs Roy Hart North Salem was inducted into the United States Army. Mr and Mrs Ray Gooch were in Kansas City Friday and Saturday for business interests.
Donald Johnson writes from U S Naval Training Station Great Lakes Illinois detailing his enlistment in Kansas City on August 1. He describes boot training nine day quarantine and a barracks housing 127 recruits, with limited time for letters and a censor restricting printed addresses.
The message urges every American to contribute 10 percent of income to support the war effort. It outlines roles from enlisting, production, home front work, to financial support, asking readers to join the 10% Club and obtain badges from local War Savings committees or postmasters.
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