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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1906
Page
1
The I. O. O. F. Lodge elected officers last Saturday night with A. W. Bingham as Noble Grand John Calhoun as Vice Grand J. W. Jones as Secretary S. L. Gibson as Treasurer and Bud Lay as Trustee.
The Adams family of Pennsylvania report a five year eczema struggle ending in a complete cure after seven bottles of Electric Bitters. They praise it as a blood medicine and body building tonic, offered by H E Epperson's drug store for 50 cents and 1 dollar.
Sheriff Yardley arrested John Will Cleeton of Cora on a charge of passing a worthless $20 bill to Mrs. E. J. Alexander of Mystic. Cleeton testified he thought the bill good and had no intent to defraud. The amount was returned and Prosecuting Attorney Painter ordered Cleeton released.
Leonard Hunsacker, the man shot by Long at Cora last summer, faces a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He deposited funds in a Milan bank, gave several checks to Browning, and shortly after drew out his money, leaving the recipients with empty accounts while he moved the funds away.
A reader from Columbia Tennessee praises Herbine as a positive cure for constipation dyspepsia and liver issues. The advertisement notes sales through Whaley and Son and mentions early rising as part of a healthy lifestyle.
Dr. Van Wye reports the week’s sick list including Miss Addie Fleming convalescent and a recovering child of Frank Crea’s son. Also listed are James Fanning’s little boy, Mrs. John Sargeant, Wm. Havens child sick, and a boy born at the home of Mr and Mrs Chas Williams of the llinst. Pure buckwheat flour in bulk advertised at Buxton's.
The next annual report will show Compulsory Attendance brought 26 263 children into schools. Rural pay scales ranged from 60 to 600 dollars for eight months while city salaries averaged 720 and 840 respectively for St Louis and Kansas City. Rural districts levy about 47 cents per hundred and cities about 82 cents. Associations advocate uniform statewide textbooks. The item includes local notices and humorous village sketches from Hatchville.
A quirky admonition warns that quarter dollars carry 13 stars 13 letters and 13 leaves and 13 arrowheads. The note urges people to bring in their quarters, calling for action despite the odd superstition.
A local note reports a couple of loads of wood set aside under a subscription scheme. Residents are invited to contribute or claim their allotments as part of a community effort to stockpile fuelwood for the upcoming season.
An advertisement claims Ballard's Horehound Syrup cures coughs influenza bronchitis and other pulmonary diseases. It urges readers to try a bottle from Whaley & Son with price points 24 cents and 1. Sold alongside Bargain Day offers.
The poem laments missing electric street lights in Brown ing. It recalls how lights keep people from gloom during mud filled streets and imagines towns from ocean to ocean enjoying bright illumination. The speaker urges a motion to bring the lights to their town so all may see.
Waterman of Watertown Ohio reports his daughter cured of epilepsy by Dr King s New Life Pills after two years without an attack. He praises the pills as the best body cleanser and safe tonic at H E Epperson s drug store.
A local girl, famed for admiring the ball team last summer, sparks early season interest as she asks her father, nearly paralysed at dinner, to bat the beans toward her base. The humorous exchange shows community charm and budding enthusiasm for the sport.
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