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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
1
The Kirksville Democrat reports a post office scare as locals chased a would-be robber, while detailing a citywide smallpox outbreak with 27 cases in six months and 17 still quarantined. It calls for stricter reporting and enforced quarantines, urging action before a state intervention.
G W Spencer owner of a Paw Paw store opens a new Cora location in the Ed Hollon building. The steel sided interior is being finished with shelves counters and paint. A ten day sale will begin Wednesday December 23. Ed A Williams visited Milan to see John A Clem who is gravely ill with stomach cancer.
Seattle December 22 1908 at the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition the Washington display will replace decorative ore samples with verifiable data. Each exhibit will present 100 to 500 pounds of ore with ledge averages plus hanging and foot wall context and a property owner statement including location development and assays.
A seven year old girl RozA May Nickell writes from north of Winigan Missouri asking Santa for a new doll that sleeps a doll bed a train a stove a wagon candy nuts pretty dishes and to come if there is no snow she suggests asking the editor where Winigan is located.
Jefferson City reports surprise at immigration agents meeting claims of 10 million acres in Missouri that could be cultivated. Officials note 4 million acres in the St. Francois valley partly cultivated, with vast tracts in fifteen counties idle. Flood-prone Missouri river lands remain undeveloped and 85,000 acres of government land still open for settlement.
The annual settlement season arrives for printing and publishing and other trades. Support the newspaper man whose steady reporting has served the local firm for the past year, and compensate the publisher for his efforts over the last 365 days.
Mr and Mrs Jay McKenzie of Summerville Oregon left Tuesday after a brief visit with relatives here. They were accompanied by Mrs Nancy Stinson who will also visit relatives in Oklahoma before returning home.
A rousing exhortation urges young men to work hard to establish a home and farm, stressing energy and pluck over idle living. It warns women to judge suitors by prosperity and industry, cautions against marrying a nonworking man, and concludes that luck favors honest toil and effort. Ex,
Wm Urton hosted neighbors for an old fashioned husking bee with over 300 bushels of corn cribbed. Later a social dance for the crowd and their partners followed while Corneal Patterson and Wellington Ashman boastfully worked hard, stirring hopes of future activity on the Patterson farm south of Farmersville. Rev J K Beery and family have left for Kansas City after visiting Rev E M Capp and praising the protracted meeting.
A movement to form a stock company for a canning factory seeks funding. The proposed plant costs about 3200 dollars, can process 8000 cans every 10 hours, and could expand with little cost. It would employ about 50 workers, mainly youths.
Last week W P Carter bought a horse from Fred White near Othem and learned it was stolen. White became a suspect and an inquiry began. The seller was identified in Laclede, arrested there, and brought to Linneus where he surrendered most of Carter's purchase money.
A reader muses on how newspaper advertising quietly works, reaching hundreds of homes as stories end and families read, with attractive ads drawing trade. The ad is described as a silent drummer urging customers to notice and buy.
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