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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1922
Page
4
A compact collection of pithy sayings on money, patriotism, opportunity, recreation, debt repayment, and public life. The notes critique postwar costs, caution against ostentation, and urge practical effort over loud rhetoric.
Use money as you receive it to avoid bother from relatives. The saying urges immediate spending to deter persistent inquiries about gifts or debts.
A contemporary woman validates the poet Longfellow by showing discernment in what she reveals. Her measured behavior contrasts with louder exhibitions, underscoring restraint as a personal ethic.
In a brisk, humorous column a singing dad, stubborn flivver, and bird protection themes mix with quips about nickel swallows and landlords. The piece notes Foch holding eleven LL D degrees while many endure winter without any, and jokes about garage ads promising “Starting and lighting a social ty.”
A fragmentary reminiscence links a man once cut by his mother to a son whose nails are trimmed by a flapper while a barber shampoos hair and a porter shines shoes. It notes Milton wrote Paradise Regained after his mother in law’s death.
Letters of Administration for the estate of James T. Fleming were granted by the Probate Court of Linn County Missouri on January 19 1922. F A Fleming is named executor and claimants must file within six months for allowance or be barred. claims not filed within one year are forever barred. Arthur L. Pratt Judge of Probate attests with seal.
The item lists multiple shipments of cattle and sheep to and from Cora Milan and Brookfield. Names include Will Quigley Pete Crowdis John Fields D G Havens I B Christy James Dodson Vernon Butler Joe Bundridge G M Spencer Ed Almond and sons Billy Franklin and others. Some residents are noted as sick.
The column lists neighbors attending visits and social calls from Monday through Sunday including Fin Southerland and wife at Joe Creason’s, families visiting Willard Pulliam and John Blenders, and a large Indian show crowd in Purdin. Several illnesses are updated, with Urbach and Jess Pulliam families noted as recovering, plus routine church and community movements.
A group of girls at a lakeside camp faces a looming storm when Alta Winston secretly sails out in a motor boat to rescue her beloved Harry Hilton, the missing camper. After a perilous wait, Alta returns with Harry alive and the couple’s bond revealed, prompting a camp rule against storm fishing.
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