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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1928
Page
3
A tense memorandum recounts a nocturnal confrontation at the Bethel estate. The narrator, Halliday, and a security observer confront a camouflaged intruder after lights and windows suggest covert entry. A mysterious figure vanishes, a gun fires, and the two men suspect Gordon as the possible killer.
A historical note surveys famous intellects famed for big appetites. It cites Scott, Mirabeau, Talleyrand, Goethe, Napoleon, Bismarck, and the Dumas family, with anecdotes of their eating habits and a Paris hotel turkey tale involving Alexandre Dumas and his father.
A homing pigeon liberated with a crucial message in World War II carried it through heavy artillery and machine gun fire at Grand Fre Rampont. The bird crossed 24.5 miles to the left in 25 minutes despite losing a leg and sustaining a breast wound.
Israel Zangwill once told how his son Oliver asked why a snail in the Sussex road did not find a wife to look after it. The tale ends with a humorous pause on domestic life and responsibility.
A nine year old tells his mother he has little regard for women after his sister Katheryn scores only forty in arithmetic. He calls it embarrassing and voices a blunt attitude toward girls in a domestic scene from school.
Edsel Ford warns that speed cannot override safety in aviation and business. He cites the Yorkshire drummer and a door to door anecdote about speed. A laundress hums “O Happy Day” as she uses Red Cross Ball Blue. Even optimists fear the tax collector and swift feet avert trouble.
Mrs Duartes Morean of Tully New York credits Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash with improving her health after illness and weakness She plans to finish two more bottles and believes the medicines are worth their weight in gold
L. E B Ross head of California's vital statistics bureau notes that only about one third of the current population is native. Illinois leads in settlers with 137000 residents followed by Missouri 104000 and New York 102000 among others.
A concise proverb attributed to Colton about nature's paradoxes. The line links intense heat to pure ore and darkest storms to bright thunderbolts, illustrating a paradoxical cause and effect within natural phenomena.
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