School Opens Seeks Record Enrollment and Expanded Courses
The Browning public schools will open Monday September 1 with plans for higher enrollment in both grades and high school. The faculty and board have raised standards, adding new agriculture and science courses and a ten unit program aligned with Missouri Department of Education requirements. Nonresident pupils are invited to visit the savings banks and request catalogs for more information.
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He Browning
Untiriig
Schooulty
Department of Edulfa
Missouri
Petree
Wning Savings Banks
B. D Bolling
J. D. Burwell
A Wise Suggestion G L Joyce Bucklin Raid
A reader from the Bucklin raid suggests planting fruit trees along roadsides in Missouri after a road work day on August 20 21. He recommends peaches plums and pears and argues seeds buried will sprout with weeds removed.
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G. L. Joyce
Bucklin
Missouri
Death of Charlie Kane at 33 in Kansas
Olive Kane writes from La Harpe Kansas notifying friends of Charlie Kane's death at his home in Guthrie Center Iowa. He had been bed-fast for three months from malas similation due to excessive heat with a short service held at his home and burial in Guthrie Center accompanied by Mrs Kane and Mrs Dunagan.
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N. Washington
Guthrie Center
Kane
Dunagan
Olive Kane
Old Settlers Picnic Draws Linn County Fans
Linneus hosted the Old Settlers event with Browning and nearby communities attending. Spectators enjoyed speeches and hall games between Centerville and Unionville, with Unionville winning both games. Linneus praises its park as a prime gathering space.
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Linneus
Linn
Browning
Centerville
Unionville
Store Sale Notice From J Roy Mairs
J Roy Mairs states he has sold his store and will leave. He asks all parties who know themselves indebted to him to call and settle. Adjourned ad.
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Adv
J. Roy Mairs
Obituary of Cecil A Bingham in Linn County Missouri
Cecil Augustus Bingham born September 5 1875 in Linn County Missouri to Calvin and Sarah Bingham. He taught school and farmed, married Neva Knifong August 4 1896. children James Earl 15 Lily Curlee 13 Anna Lois 1. He died Friday night around 1 o clock after a period of illness. funeral at Kaifong Grove Church conducted by Rev W C J Potter with burial in the local cemetery. He leaves wife two children his mother and two sisters Orissa Robinson and Zina Milhoan and many relatives.
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Cecil Augustus Bingham
Calvin
Sarah Bingham
Linn County
Missouri
Browning
Chillicothe
Miss ‘Neva Knifong
James Ear
Lylé Curlee
Anna Lois
Bingham
Orissa Robinson
Hyattville
Kansas
Zina Milhoan
Brookfield
Kaifong Grove
W. C.3.potter
Clay Hill Road Finished After Weeks of Hard Work
The committee on the west town road completed Clay Hill this week after weeks of labor. Residents praise the effort saying it is the best road work seen, with a highway engineer declaring it unbeatable. Despite early complaints and fundraising obstacles, the committee persevered to finish the project.
Community road repair completes with broad support
After intense heat workers finished a road project amid skeptical donors who later contributed generously. The widened cut and new cement bed extend from the bottom to Sam Johnson residence, allowing easier south access toward Joseph Edens. Volunteers with teams will continue work along the west road, inviting more helpers.
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Sam Johnson
Joseph Edens
Severe hail and rain storm damages line street Bell poles
A Saturday hail and rain storm with strong winds caused tree and building damage and interrupted the telephone system. Bell poles along Line street near the railroad crossing were broken. an engine passed before repairs could be made. Ground was littered with hail and rainfall reached about two inches. the thermometer dropped from 107 to around 77.
Browning Creamery stockholders meet in Browning
The annual meeting of Browning Creamery Company stockholders will be held in Browning at the opera house on Tuesday August 26 at 2 00 oclock p m. Shareholders may attend in person or by proxy. Re Hamilton President and Nickell Secretary.
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Browning Creamery Company
Browning
Opera House
Hamilton
Pres
E Nickell
Sec
Death summons J B Robinsons of Hyattville Kans
Dr and Mrs J B Robinson of Hyattville Kansas were called home Saturday by the death of C A Binghar. The notice records a family bereavement prompting sympathy from the community.
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J. B. Robinson
Hyattville, Kans
C. A.’ Binghar
Six Die in Auto and Train Collision Near Kiln Brookfield
At a crossing a mile east of Carrolton Missouri a fast mail train struck an automobile killing six occupants. The party from Brookfield and Sacramento were on a pleasure trip to Brunswick. The car stalled on the track and confusion or a mechanical failure may have caused the crash.
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Carrolton
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Here
Forbes
Carl
Forber
Sacramento
Cal
Roberts
William
Brookfield
Vandeventer
H. S
Warner
Mabel
Brunswick
Our Civilization and Its Civilizing Question
A reflective railing against modern civilization. The piece contrasts material progress with persistent social ills such as crime poverty disease and ignorance. It argues civilization remains barbaric in spirit and calls for focus beyond wealth and comfort.
Do We Call Ourselves Civilized and Reasonable
The writer questions society's priorities arguing that material wealth and punitive costs drive morality. He contends society manufactures crime and social ills and then blames taxes for prisons lunatic asylums and public defenses. He ends by asking if civilization and reason exist in such a system.
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Brookfield Argus
Who Am I My Own Grandfather July National Monthly
A riddle explains a family tangle where marriage links make a man both grandfather and grandson. The narrator notes missteps about proposing, marrying the mother of his beloved, and then discovers paradoxical kinship when his father marries his daughter. The puzzle ends with the line I am my own grandfather.
Thoroughbred Brood Mares and Mules Sale Near Cora Milan Green Castle
Top bid to win 22 head farm raised brood mares fillies and geldings up to 1850 pounds. Breeding shire percheron and cleveland bays. Six young broke mules. Sale starts 10 a m Monday August 25 at Sarah Blackman’s farm five miles east of Cora ten miles southeast of Milan ten miles southwest of Green Castle and seven miles northwest of Winigan. Terms six months for 4 percent or 2 percent off for cash on approved notes. Adv R P Franklin.
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Shire
Cleveland
Sears
Sarah Blackman
Cora
Milan
Green Castle
Winigan
Adv
R. P. Franklin
Undertaker's Supplies Offered Near Browning Mo
Advertises copper lined caskets grave vaults robes suits and slippers of all kinds. T. B. Mundell invites buyers to visit 134 miles southwest of Browning Missouri before making a purchase.
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T. B. Mundell
Browning, Mo
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Dr. Carland
Peters Hotel
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