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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1949
Page
3
A farmer overpays by one egg to a local house and is offered a drink to settle the miscount. Mr. Smith jokes about hair and eggs. the second quip jokes about family tree costs. The light tale follows old fashioned rural humor and wordplay.
Hyderabad's big game story details upcoming tiger season and the dangers of man-eaters. Hunters describe methods from tree hides to elephant-back chairs as they pursue tigers, noting the deadly Adilabad Phantom and local beliefs about tiger ethics and superstition.
In Ann Arbor Michigan a knife blade two and a half inches long was surgically removed from a man’s spinal column after twenty three years. The blade lay between the shoulder blades in the spinal cord. He suffered no lasting disability and carried on as a day laborer. The wound was only revealed by recent X rays.
James Wesley Reardon, 87, has spent 76 years with the same cotton mill founded by William Gregg in Graniteville South Carolina. He rose through roles from tack boy to plant supervisor and paymaster. He says reading and writing helped him learn arithmetic and he later taught Sunday school and sang in the church choir.
In Minneota Minnesota five Gossen children married five Janssen children over five years. Will and Mary Gossen, farmers five miles northeast of town, have 14 children. Nick and Marie Janssen, retired farmers who moved to town, have 12 children. Father Philip Casey performed all five ceremonies and hopes to officiate again.
In Russia 800 prospecting expeditions launch the largest drive to tap mineral resources. They plan 24,000 air hours with some prospectors parachuted into Siberian wilds, employing 3,000 motor vehicles and 6,000 draft animals from camels to reindeer, while air crews use magnetometers to detect large deposits underground.
A Journal of the Optical Society of America report finds green tinted lamps reduce eye fatigue compared with white or blue light during two hour periods of writing very small letters, though no definite explanation is given.
New York University officials announce a tube that emits a stream of electrons to render magnetism visible as blue light rays. The experimental device shows curved magnetic lines projected as light, marking a first demonstration of magnetism becoming observable through emitted light.
Philadelphia report summarizes views of Marie Bonds of Haverton Pa and others on how American women compare with foreign women in marriage. Foreign observers describe American wives as spoiled and restless, while Bonds notes American women are attractive and informed but often discontented and focused on family duties.
Japan’s postwar baby boom boosts population to 80.8 million with lower death rates. Experts note gains since surrender and a faster rise than prior 1950 projections, sparking discussion among Americans and others about Japan’s scarcity of goods despite abundance of babies.
Grass crops provide sanitary floors for production and feeding of livestock due to ample sunshine. Veterinarians report success preventing swine erysipelas with culture and serum, and in some cases serum alone.
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