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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1909
Page
7
A humorous composite from a 19th or early 20th century style passage offers advice on laundering and starching to improve wash goods with Defiance Starch praised. It also includes a quip about a sculptor and a widower admiring a clay bust, praising the wife’s goodness and requesting a larger nose.
A scattered collage of legal notices and short ad blurbs presents an 1886 Toledo area snapshot. Items include a bond pledge about payment and oath language, a child question about George Washington, Munyon's Homeopathic remedies, humor jokes, eye remedies, vanity quotes, a gargle for sore throat, marriage license musings, Pettit’s Eye Salve, Brown’s Bronchial Traches, and Red Cross Ball Blue. The tone imitates a bustling midwest paper with varied product pitches and brief items.
Fifty students at William Jewell College Liberty are in quarantine as smallpox cases rise. One freshman Sanford E B Tilton believed source of contagion. most ill students housed in the college gym. four boarding houses also under quarantine. None seriously ill. college work hoped to resume soon.
A $25,000 fire in Mankato wiped out the two story stone building housing M S Hall jewelry with $10,000 loss and half insured. C M Poes cloth ing store burned for $15,000 with $8,000 insurance. Three Missourians overcome by gas in Lawton carpenters L T Doerrie J T Sheckler G W Parks saved. American Sugar company withdrawals from Missouri noted. Atchison County Fair Association formed with $50,000 capital to hold a county fair next fall.
Gov Hadley announced Frazier Roby of Rocheport will serve as coal oil inspector for Boone county cities and towns lacking an inspector for two years from February 8. Felix J Boesche of Unionville is named coal oil inspector for Putnam county for a two year term from February 8.
Miss Mary Mc Carthy a railroad agent used a revolver to seize a burglar and kept him prisoner at the depot while she continued her duties until Sheriff White arrived hours later and took the man to the Chillicothe jail.
A promotional piece urges young people to pursue telegraphy bookkeeping and stenography through correspondence courses. It highlights the Michigan Business Institute in Kalamazoo as a leading option, noting enrollment, home-study convenience, and a tuition-free until graduation policy with job placement.
An odd clippety notice mentions a dinner invitation balefully declined due to a dress suit in hock. The text shifts to medical claims for Dean's Kidney Pills and unrelated remedies with slogans and addresses, resembling an era advertising page.
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