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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1938
Page
4
A jumble of wry readers notes on Browning nostalgia and social foibles. References to alimony, blondes, ventriloquists, and barbed wire fence humor mix with old time remarks on wars and car fatalities. The piece zips between satire and sentimental musings about manners.
Miss Mary Ida Seyforth spends vacation with her Milan parents. Forrest Amber family from Arkansas visits Collings and related families. Virgil Grindstaff and Willie Grindstaff visit Milan with Grand Staff relatives. Ray Grindstaff family and Cal Burress household share Christmas at Milan homes.
The National Safety Council reports a 6760 fewer traffic deaths in the first ten months versus 1937 and predicts 8500 lives saved by year end if the trend continues. The note praises growing public safety awareness and urges cautious driving, especially near railroad crossings, as winter traffic intensifies. Local notes from North Salem detail visits, moves, and social gatherings involving residents such as Lois Riley, Lois Walters, Raymond McCollum, the Barry family, Madie Stone, and others with brief mentions of travel to Tulsa and Brookfield.
The Interstate Commerce Commission reports 197 fewer deaths in grade crossing accidents in the first seven months of 1938 versus 1937, projecting 375 fewer for the year if trends continue. A Salt Lake City school bus crash killed 24 children and the driver, prompting calls for heightened crossing vigilance and bus monitors, plus local social notes from North Salem and nearby towns.
Finest Blood tested Chicks Reds Rocks Leghorns eight fifty per hundred. Large assorted seven eighty five. White Giants nine eighty five Reds or Rocks pullets nine eighty five. Live arrival COD. Four weeks old pullets twenty four eighty five per hundred. Nichols & Co Rockmart Georgia.
Winigan vicinity couples Oren Bailey and family and C S Wallace visited Kirksville on Friday. Wm Nation and son Edgar and wife were in Milan on Wednesday. Milan visitors included C L Romine, Tommy Haggy, and Othel Haggy. Cecil Bunch family, Ellis Owney, Dora Reed, J L Jones, Ora Weidenhofer, and Maurine Hayes were at Kirksville on Wednesday and Saturday.
Community members report visits to relatives and friends in Green Castle Kirksville and nearby areas. Names include Romine Pryor Bailey Harl Milhoan Hoselton Sorge Thrasher Stephenson and others with travel to Kirksville for doctor visits and family gatherings.
A brief local notice lists an office location over the Farmers Store in Browning Missouri with contact phone 107 likely for business or public listings.
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