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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1932
Page
2
An advertisement promotes Castoria as a safe, gentle remedy for infants and older children. It claims Castoria soothes colic, fevers, colds, and digestive upset without harsh drugs or narcotics, and emphasizes trusted use by doctors and mothers. The genuine product bears the Castoria name.
Two Vienna doctors created an illuminated human brain and central nervous system model using one hundred neon tubes. The glass construct lights exterior and interior parts for teaching during lectures.
A college student tells his father he took up horseback riding. The father quips that the skill could land him a job as a mounted police officer if he dislikes office work.
A Webster City Iowa resident Mrs Chas Lacey says after influenza she stopped coughing and improved while using Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery. She notes she took six bottles and found relief and recommends the free medical advice offer from the Doctor Pierce Clinic in Budd NE.
Rich bananas enhance creaminess in frozen dishes while preserving flavor. A dessert blends three ripe bananas with orange and lemon juice, sugar, salt, and cream, then freezes and serves as sherbet garnished with preserved orange peel. Also suggests pineapple slices on lettuce for presentation.
A spring hat feature describes a rolled Breton sailor style with a saucer brim. It uses mixed straw in Chinese green and white and adds a gay feather trim in green red and white for a bright accessory.
A comic item from 1932 notes Kitty McKay quipping that every citizen owes something to the country and that the income tax collector will collect it sooner or later, attributed to Bell Syndicate via WNU Service.
Seasonal fruit candle styled dish uses pineapple tops as candle cores with banana flesh, candied cherry tops, and a mayonnaise “wax” layer. Bananas, pineapple, oranges, melon are diced and served with lemon syrup, mint garnish, or bright cherry. Banana fritters with lemon sauce and a banana cream pie variant round out the menu.
A carved narrator recounts Hooty the Owl saving Peter Rabbit from Shadow the Weasel without fully realizing his aid. Peter collapses from exhaustion and fear, hides under brush, and is unexpectedly watched over by Hooty perched on a dead tree as danger closes in. Mrs. Peter and Shadow the Weasel learn the truth.
Peter hides as Shadow the white coated bear threatens him. Hooty the owl dives and blinds Shadow, saving Peter from danger. Shadow retreats into a hollow log while Hooty returns to its watch tower, giving Peter a chance to rest. Peter feels gratitude toward Slooty the owl.
A London Humorist quip notes elephants never forget yet remind us that elephants are not the people who borrow money. The line plays on memory and financial folly with gentle satire.
Reported discovery of a Civil War era underground munitions plant linked to Gen. Robert E. Lee. Located miles from a cave entrance near White Sulphur Springs West Virginia, about 400 feet underground with saltpeter hoppers in pristine condition. Authorities allegedly unaware of the site.
Poet Douglas Malloch recalls sleepless hours while wide awake in a quiet room. He remembers childhood nights sleeping on the floor when company filled the house, blankets and pillows lining the boards, and waking at three or four as a bed seemed far away.
A peculiar remark on marriage roles appears in an exchange noting that a husband’s idea of allowance is what he must provide for his wife, while a wife is not expected to provide the same for her husband.
A speaker touts Target Tobacco as real cigarette tobacco that lets a person roll 30 to 40 cigarettes for a dime. He claims the product tastes like ready-mades, saves about four cents weekly, and urges readers to buy it at local stores.
A girl left to watch the soup sings for her mother as the pot seems to grow. The item hints that abundance can breed stinginess and notes that a firm name can reveal business weakness.
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