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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1944
Page
5
Fay Peterson visited Brookfield Monday. Several Browning visitors came from Winigan Linneus and Glendale. New Leader-Record subscribers include Pearl Bailey and Earl Arnold. Multiple families hosted dinners and greetings across Browning Purdin Milan and Kirksville with travel to Kansas City and Chicago noted.
The highway patrol explains a quick conversion: multiply speed in miles per hour by one and a half to estimate feet traveled each second. This provides a simple rule for gauging motion at various speeds.
An advertising blurb promotes Dr Salsbury's PAR-O-SAN as a safe pleasant and effective brooder house disinfectant. It mentions contact via PHONE 196 BROWNING and notes a connection to Dr Salsbury's Nation Wide Poultry Health Service.
Cliff Peterson was taken to Grim-Smith Hospital in Kirksville Thursday night for an appendectomy. His daughters Mrs. Joe Nevins and Mrs. Erma Peterson accompanied him to the hospital for support.
At forty miles per hour a car travels forty four feet before the average driver can move his foot from the accelerator to the brake pedal, illustrating reaction distance in this traffic note.
A wartime recruitment notice touts the Women's Army Corps offering clerical, accounting, store, typing and driving roles. It urges readers to apply at a local Army Recruiting Station or write to The Adjutant General in Washington, D.C.
Linn County farmers who paid five dollars membership into the Milan REA before the war and lack electricity will gather at Purdin Hall Thursday night February 24. County Agent Ralph Rogers says Milan REA Superintendent Mr Hayse will attend to outline requirements for extending REA lines, with more material likely this year if it aids farm production.
The 1944 agricultural conservation program, announced by WFA, targets six million farms with lime and phosphate use to boost production. N E Dodd notes careful land management avoids grassland plow-up seen in the last war and warns about storms and erosion. Also reports increased production of electric fence controllers and civilian use of packing trunks with iron frames. Civilians receive smaller milk supplies this year than last, and broom production is curtailed due to shortages.
The OWI lists U S war casualties at 150 478 with 34 179 dead and 51 292 wounded. OPA cuts fresh sliced codfish ceilings to four to four and a half cents in winter and three cents in summer. Tire shortages may delay farm tractors once finished. Hosiery rules prevent upselling fine gauge rayon with coarser hosiery.
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