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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1950
Page
6
A New York taxi ride ends with the cabbie revealing he is a mental case after racing through streets and narrowly avoiding hospital during a year overseas. The man and woman react with concern while the driver jokes about his condition.
A guard from the lunatic asylum hurries to a farmer asking if an escaped patient passed by. The farmer humorously questions how someone can be short yet weigh 350 pounds, prompting the guard to insist the man was crazy.
A portly dowager with a Pekingese pauses at a drinking fountain beside department store elevators. The elevator starter protests that fountains are for patrons. She apologizes, realizing she thought they were for employees.
A dialogue shows a hopeful question about becoming a big actress. Miss B replies that such fame is not easy and even she has difficulties, highlighting the gap between ambition and reality.
A classroom exchange ends in a joke as Johnny answers the question about the three great American parties. He quips that they are Democratic, Republican, and cocktail, prompting laughter from students.
A deaf woman arrives at a church using an ear trumpet. As she sits, an usher leans close and whispers a hostile cue to leave the premises, prompting removal threats.
A man explains his duty to reform for a woman and admits after changing his habits he chose not to marry her. He gave up drinking smoking dancing and billiards at her request and now says he could do better.
Descriptive fragment recalls a shipwreck with eight men from nations. After 48 years the two Americans split the island and built skyscrapers and stadiums while the two Israelites financed, the two Irishmen controlled the police, and the two Englishmen awaited introductions.
A passerby asks about two hats in a hat holder. The panhandler grins and says business is good, so he opened a branch office.
An OCR fragment lists a cafe and service station on Highway 36 at Nettieton Ma with mentions of down payment and materials by Peet. It also references Chillicothe We attention cream provider and a 55 year old dependable service company in Galva.
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