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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1931
Page
3
The verse lampoons synthetic chemistry and artificial decorations with jokes about gas like flames and a Santa figure. It notes the oddity of modern holiday staging and the odd honesty of mistletoe amid garlands and cotton snow.
In a 1931 column, Wm L Gaston imagines the United States feeding the world at a vast Christmas dinner. He lists generous resources from Kansas wheat to California fruit, urging unity as a dish of peace. He envisions tables spanning continents and a dinner that quiets conflicts.
A mother asks Santa for gifts of appreciation patience kindness and unselfishness to strengthen family life. She hopes for thoughtful deeds and compliments among her children and a harmonious home as she strives to be a good mother.
A playful 1931 exchange about how Santa Claus descended the chimney this Christmas. Willie asks and a child responds that the visit went down in a neat, tidy, traditional fashion.
The column notes Christmas has grown beyond a single day and now spans a broader season, extending its reach with each passing year.
Miss Mary Morrisey, sixteen, shot Charles Stevens twenty seven in his Kansas City restaurant after learning he was married and had fathered her unborn child. Stevens was wounded in the arm. Morrisey surrendered to police after awaiting them at a jewelry shop.
Brooklyn judge reacts as lawyer Jacob Brenner pleads Isidore Miller eighteen a guilty plea for holding up Gloria Blum cashier of Stagg laundry. Miller agrees the judge sentences him to Elmira reformatory while two accomplices face five to ten years for the $617 robbery.
In Kansas City Kansas Joseph Escott Jr nine frees his mother Jennie Escott 38 trapped between steel rods as brick wall collapses after the fire. He sends brother Johnnie six for help and remains in the wrecked house lifting rods so she can crawl out.
In Brighton England the coroner and jury heard a case of death by own action by drowning. The coroner remarked that no man dies by his own action with his hat on, calling this case a notable exception and a morbid curiosity for students.
Fire likely caused by defective wiring devastates the Ackerman Bakery Company plant in Brookfield with estimated losses of $10,000 covered by insurance. The broad fire sweep and damage to equipment prompted emergency response and investigations.
Lisbon sits on terraced hills with a sea approach and Belem gate. The city blends posts earthquake grandeur with Moorish palaces and narrow streets where streetcars mix with oxen and donkeys. The Rocio plaza dares pedestrians with mosaic pavements while roofs bloom green in winter rains.
The author condemns scoffing at amateurs and dilettantes, arguing that belittling others’ creative efforts deprives society of shared interests and the chance to speak through music and conversation. The piece laments diminishing talk and cultural participation, noting even evenings of dialogue are rare. Harold Bauer is cited in the Etude.
A man starts and maintains all coal burning boilers in a 47 story New York hotel by pressing push buttons. Pulverized coal is automatically released from bunkers to keep the fire at the proper heat with precise amounts.
A Wisconsin clergyman asks what people value most and finds the top possessions cost nothing money. Health, love of work and capacity, and the ability to look others in the eye lead a fifty item list, with 48 costing nothing. The piece notes Angola’s massive dynamite use and workforce in a large scale project, aided by camels transporting supplies.
The new Turkish railway lines will traverse rugged terrain, including a monumental concrete bridge along the route. Though the line is just over 500 miles, engineers face significant challenges in crossing valleys and guiding trains over spans that rank among the world’s largest concrete structures.
Mrs. Burch Young of Fort Worth Texas possesses a scalp heirloom said to belong to an Indian chief slain by her father Captain Ira Long. The chief died in Jack County Texas during a hand to hand fight in Lost Valley over fifty years ago. Captain Long died in 1913 at age seventy one.
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