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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1918
Page
7
A traveler recalls arriving at a seaport along the Mesopotamian river, watching docks crowded with ships and workers, artillery convoys, and a busy landscape of factories and smoke. A wandering city character comments on leisure and labor as smoke from industrial plants fills the air.
The fragment suggests a rumor about a king possibly assuming leadership and remarks on rumored versatility. It references Wilhelm and a retainer noting speculation about future roles such as painter, with caution about truth and records.
A Scribner's Magazine tale recounts an American rookie who planned to fish with a hand grenade in France. He blew up a barge, then fought seven Germans, seized a machine gun, returned with mail bags, and earned a medal for distinguished conduct in the field.
Mrs James T Fields recalls poet Whittier and his boyhood trip to Boston. William Greenleaf’s mother, a lively, independent woman, urged the country boy to visit the city and see its sights. The boy eagerly awaited a new suit trimmed with boughten buttons as a symbol of urban fashion.
The Saturday Evening Post explains that a burning balloon does not explode. A tracer bullet pierces the balloon creating two holes through which hydrogen escapes and ignites with atmospheric oxygen, burning like two jets until the fabric burns away and the balloon weighs more than air and descends.
Flax pulling absorbs all available labor from factory workers to clerks as the north of Ireland sees a surge in flax activity. The flax supply committee plans to take the entire crop at prices from 7.50 to 10 per stone, six grades will determine quality.
A small dog followed two boys to a fork in the road where a violent quarrel over ownership occurred. The issue was eventually settled to the satisfaction of one boy who claimed the dog as his own.
Agricultural guidance urges late fall treatment to control lice in poultry flocks. It outlines a punch method using sodium fluoride for small flocks and a dipping method for larger flocks, detailing steps, water quantities, and safety notes for effective eradication.
The article notes sodium fluoride is widely sold by wholesale druggists and mail-order houses, priced 25 to 40 cents a pound. One pound treats about 100 hens by a pinch method, with dipping needing far less material. A US Dept of Agriculture entomology bureau study reports 100 fowls can be dipped in about 25 minutes by four men, versus slower dusting methods that risk missed areas.
A set of nine aims urging breeders and farmers to keep better poultry, select healthy breeders, hatch early for year round layers, preserve eggs for home use, produce infertile eggs for table use, and cull unprofitable stock. It urges maintaining a small back-yard flock, growing poultry feed, and eating more poultry and eggs to conserve meat supply.
Mississippi county home demonstration notes a Barred Rock hen named Jane M. owned by Miss Wil hemenia Hawkins near Pineville Pass Christian. At one year old in 1918 she had laid 124 eggs, with a line of hatchings and pullets. The piece highlights her exemplary laying record as an inspiration to club girls.
The piece argues farmers put more capital into their enterprises than county businessmen invest in their towns and stresses farming requires business methods and disciplined management.
In Philadelphia the Drexel & Co banking office erupts as old Duval, a Sedan veteran now knife sharpener, believes Germany s surrender is real. He sings the Marseillaise in joy, only to learn the news is false, comforted by a kind office boy the next day.
Mrs. Paulina Keswick of St. Joseph Michigan sought help from Chicago police to locate her runaway daughter Marjory aged seventeen. A letter from Marjory explained plans to travel with a charity worker to New York, promising to write and send money, and she later contacted her mother from a YWCA hotel. The case remains a poignant example of parental worry and city surveillance.
Grace Sears of 15 Federal boulevard Barnum Denver cultivated potatoes in three colors red white and blue for a patriotic garden feat. The white tuber is the Burbank variety while the blue has no official name beyond its color.
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