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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1918
Page
8
A Chicago mail order house used 12 000 ton or 540 000 000 pounds of paper for its 1917 catalogs. At 2 cents a pound the paper alone costs about 4 800 000 dollars, plus printing and mailing expenses. The piece suggests country merchants could compete by using local newspaper columns to quote prices and describe goods weekly.
A. F. Keithley and W. A. Rottman brought about 150 rabbits to H. C. Bailey who bought them at 13 cents each to aid the Red Cross. Keithley said he was glad to help the Red Cross and the fighting boys. The gen es are commended.
Secretary McAdoo urges merchants to stop accepting Liberty Loan Bonds in payment for goods. He argues such trades undermine bond sales goals, discourage thrift, and boost current expenditures as bonds are often resold immediately on the open market. The Treasury pushes bonds as permanent investments funded from savings.
Mr and Mrs James Crist and their two children from Calgary Canada arrived Saturday to spend time with relatives and friends. Jim left here years ago and built a large Calgary restaurant business. He says
A soldier writes from St. Louis on January 21 1918 rejoining a 52 man contingent. He describes travel by train toward Virginia with a sleeper car two coaches and special porter captain and doctor aboard. The message notes snow in Kentucky and anticipation of a long 2300 mile trip with letters to home and plans to describe sights later.
The message warns of severe coal shortages with three weeks of high fuel use and dwindling bins. Citizens turn to wood as K M Duncan struggles to secure two rail cars. choppers work north of town to ease the shortage.
An immigration ad urges would be homeowners to invest in Western Nebraska, northeastern Colorado, and Wyoming Big Horn Basin lands. It promotes affordable terms for nonresidents, 640-acre homesteads, and nearby sugar factories and mines. S.B. Howard, Immigration Agent, offers free folders and planning advice in Omaha, Nebraska.
An advertisement promises one hundred dollars reward for an uncured catarrh case by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It claims thirty five years' use, blood purification, and relief on mucous surfaces with testimonials offered.
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