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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1936
Page
3
A personal notice offers a Model T Ford truck for sale with contact through the office. The item is described as a bargain. Local social notes list residents visiting, on business, or as guests in Linneus, Milan, Purdin, Brookfield, and Benton Township communities with several named individuals and dates.
K. M. Duncan of Brookfield visited Monday afternoon to take his daughter Mrs. Robert Moore and her daughters home after they had been his guests.
APolson Mont reader L Holding sends a subscription check noting cold weather. California visitors Mr and Mrs Ray Keithley visit Tulare relatives. The ad promotes Gamble Stores radios claiming over 100000 customers and features Coronado Tone Column Radios with prices from 9.95, urging readers to see and hear the latest tone discovery.
Dr. Freeland attended and several residents including Linneus, Nova Morris, Edward Morelock, Clare Cox, H. F. Kike and daughter Maha La, Truman Stephenson, Arthur Cattey, Otto Johnson, and Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Duncan were listed for business or social visits Saturday and Friday through Monday. One Philco radio for sale and one registered Hereford bull offered.
Mr and Mrs Gaylord Quigley and children spent a week with his parents Mr and Mrs John Quigley. Next Sunday night the M E South SS plan a pageant with Mrs Genevieve Prather as sponsor. Mrs Vane Thurlo and children from Brookfield visited Mrs W H Dickinson. Mrs W E Gooch of Larned Kansas came to visit relatives and plans to join for Christmas. Many loads of corn move from Iowa to Missouri signaling cross state money flow. editors wish no drought or grasshoppers and hope to swap back next year.
A note highlights a performer’s upcoming number with DID I REMEMBER and mentions a color comic titled THE EARLY BIRD AND THE WORM.
Ed Marvin, who has had em ployment in Iowa, came home one day last week. Guy Adams will spend Christmas with his daughter, Miss Orry. Adams at Birmingham, Ala. Rev. and Mrs. Hobbs and son, L. C., were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Langdon. Herman Woodistle of near Purdue, was here on business Saturday.
Mr and Mrs Willis Cokerham shop in the city seeking sale details for a buffet china cabinet dining table and chairs. Several couples travel to Tren ton and Jefferson City while Locust Ditch bridge repair plans begin. Theodore Perrish buys Austin barber shop and moves in with Bertha Riddle and family. Local sighting: paired driving horses heard on No 5 paving as Herman Woodside drives.
A Texas reader in Port Arthur writes Browning, Missouri editor Browning Leader-Record seeking a subscription renewal. He recalls past town figures Joe Nickell as editor, John Ben Carter as champion bachelor, and J. R. Williams as trombone and tenor star, wondering about changes since.
Dr E R Duncan operates a dental office over the Farmers Store in Browning Missouri with phone number 107. The notice provides location and contact details for patients seeking dental services.
Mr and Mrs Burton Carr were Sunday guests of her parents in Galt. Joe Coon of Kansas City and Junior Johnson of Brookfield visited friends in the area. The Hummel Wesley Class held a bazaar and food sale last Saturday with strong patronage. Mr and Mrs R A Thurlo visited Brookfield Saturday morning and were in Mian on business in the afternoon. Mrs Ella Stuffiebean, visiting Chicago with her daughter, Basil Lay and family, returned home Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Alvord Almond and their daughter from near North Salem spent Saturday visiting his mother.
Miss Ida McQuown spent the weekend visiting her grandmother Mrs Julia McQuown and Mr and Mrs H L Adams.
Mrs Emma Thornton of Daw son Nebraska sent a letter and a check to renew her home paper subscription. She notes fine fall weather in the area and that their first snow has fallen.
Local commercial printer urges readers to place the next order and prove its claim of delivering the best line of printing at fair prices. The ad emphasizes winning customer business and earning trust.
Mrs. J. D. Lay and Mrs. D. A. Taylor and son of Linneus visited relatives and friends in the city for a short time Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Ott Stone and daughter Lorene were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Drake and baby. Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Campbell and daughters visited his parents near Gat Sunday afternoon.
Mr and Mrs Herbert Rachford and their son spent the weekend with Mrs Quigley and Mr Quigley, the couple’s parents.
O S Hedges of Callicothe was the guest of Carlyle Bennett Saturday. Bennett had brought the agency here for the Banker's Life Insurance Co of Lincoln Neb.
Robert Lambert arrived Sunday evening after his mother Mrs Eva Lambert had been in Kirksville and is reported to be better.
The Leader Record offers annual renewal at a price of $1.50. The notice confirms a yearly subscription rate and renewal timing.
Mr and Mrs J H Calhoun and Mr and Mrs Adramn Glaze with son DeVon drove to Brookfield Sunday. Mr and Mrs W P Nickell and their guest Mrs W E Gooch of Larned Kansas spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs R E Harris and children.
Mr and Mrs Joe Miles and daughters of near Chula spent the first of the week with his mother Mrs Joe Nickel and other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Porter Sayre of near Harris and Mrs. Ira Sayre of near Milan were Saturday night and Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Maggart and other relatives.
The author urges poultry raisers to stop feeding spring chickens and shift emphasis to the laying flock. He notes staggy spring birds fetch lower prices and capons should be finished, while consistent daily care for hens yields more eggs and better prices, with prices likely to be satisfactory this winter. Continued on back page.
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