Purdin Items From Brown ing Leader Record
Brown ing Leader Record notes rain and farm activity in Purdin area. John Lambert and wife Vera Calhoun plan an extended trip to Rocky Ford Colorado for Mrs Lam bert health. Joe Creason sold cattle in Chicago last week. U B church held basket dinner and preaching with good turnout. Farmers cutting wheat amid light yields. corn plowing delayed by rain. Luther Devore family and Wilma Hawkins visited Joe Creason Sunday.
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John Lambert
Vera Calhoun
Rocky
Ford
Colo
Mrs.Lambert
Cross Roads And Cora Personal Notices
Shippers report D G Havens sent sheep from Cora last week. Mrs Floyd Fanning and child ren visited St. Louis and Kansas City then returned Friday. George and Mary Franklin welcomed a baby girl. Lester Kenley visited on Saturday on business. Mary and George Jennings guests of Hazel and George Dodson on Sunday. Sylvia Cecil Carmack and Vesta Dodson visited Ethel on Saturday. E E Maxey spent Friday evening with J H Tharp. Polene Virginia and J C Jennings staying with grandparents J H Tharp and wife then returned home northwest of Browning on Monday.
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Floyd Fanning
St. Louis
Kansas City
Polene
Virginia
J.c.jennings
Browning
Price School Items
Too late for last issue this vicinity has fine weather last week Harold Abbott and wife visited Elwood Foss Sunday Emery Patrick visiting relatives in this community Oscar Hoselton started work for George Milloan Mrs Charley Coram visited Fannie Corams Mrs Fannie Coram visited Wm Turner Harold Foss plowed corn for Harold Abbott last week
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Harold Abbott
Elwood Foss
Emery Patrick
Elmer
Oscar Hoselton
George Milloan
Charley Coram
Fannie Corams
Harold Foss
Fannie Coram
Wm. Turners
Salem Items Chronicle of Weekend Visits and Wheat Harvest
Kenneth Warren and his family visited Saturday and Sunday. Edna Warren and Grant Minor were Brookfield visitors Sunday. Farmers in the area began cutting wheat. A large crowd attended a Shelby lecture by Henry Lamberts and George Spencers, with Rutha Lambert spending Sunday with them.
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Kenneth Warren
Edna Warren
Grant Minor
Brookfield
Shelby
Henry Lamberts
George Spencers
Rutha Lambert
Mrs Nickell and Miss Dickinson Visit Purdue for Two Weeks
Mrs. E W Nickell and Mrs. Jane Dickinson are guests at Purdue Missouri and will stay for two weeks, enjoying local hospitality and sightseeing opportunities.
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E. W. Nickell
Jane Dickinson
Purdue, Mo
Will
Local paper relies on reader advertising support
The note urges readers to patronize advertisers who fund the newspaper, stating no paper can succeed without ads and thanking those who help keep the publication possible.
Visitors and Relatives Share Time Across Town
Carl Mairs visited Chillicothe yesterday. Mr and Mrs Leo Smith and children traveled to Brunswick to visit relatives. B A Burton from Los Angeles arrived to join his wife and daughters visiting Mrs Helen Calhoun. Mrs Parker from Pur din was here yesterday guest of her mother Mrs Charley Brummit.
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Carl. Mairs
Chillicothe
Leo Smith
Brunswick
B.A. Burton
Los Angeles
Calnf
Helen Calhoun
Parker
Purdin
Charley Brummit
Locust Creek Drainage District Meeting Notice
Land owners of Locust Creek Drainage District Linn and Sullivan Counties Missouri are notified of a meeting in the Circuit Court room Linneus on Friday July 20 1923. The purpose is to elect one member of the Board of Supervisors for five years to succeed Joseph Kollasch. Dated June 30 1923 by President F L Fitch and Secretary G G Grider.
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Locust Creek
Linn and
Sullivan Counties
Missouri
Linn
Circuit Court
Linneus
Linn County
Board of Supervisors
Joseph Kollasch
Board of Supervisors of
Said
Severe storm unloads rain and hail across Sullivan area
A Tuesday afternoon storm formed near Pollock in Sullivan County and spread widely. Flooding occurred at Pollock and Boynton, heavy rain and hail at Milan, with the drainage ditch moving water away rapidly. Northward hail damaged crops while Locust Creek stayed low.
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Pelock
Sullivan County
Pollock and
Boynton
Milan
Celebration Day in Browning Quiet Fourth Amid Rain
Browning observed a calm Fourth of July as rain kept many residents home. Children fired caps and toy pistols, croquet games were played, and local paper delivery stayed on schedule. J B Carter offered free lemonade and a strong evening program at the picture show, with Le Bon noted as a local figure.
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Browning
J.b.carter
Vegetable Gardens of Big Importance Declined by Labor Shortage
The USDA warns farmers have neglected home vegetable gardens due to labor shortages and the belief that gardens do not pay. Potatoes and cabbage excesses illustrate farm overproduction, while households lose varied home produce. Encourages reviving 1923 home gardens to boost living standards and preserve income.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Device to Restrain Swine for One-Man Operation
The article describes G. Cortez's restraining device for pigs from Los Angeles California. It details a table style apparatus adjustable for pigs of various sizes and operable by a single man with access to the animal during procedures.
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Scientific American
G. Cortez
Los Angeles
Cal
Early sprays for fruit trees and vines in late winter
Prepare for sprays in late February or early March. Lime sulfur helps oyster shell scale and San Jose scale on apples and leaf curl on peaches. Bordeaux mixture with arsenate of lead protects apples before leaves form and near bloom, and aids pears, grapes, cherries, plums for rot and pests.
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San Jose
Potato Growers Plan Changes After Loss in Middle West
Potato growers in Michigan Kansas North Dakota Nebraska and Minnesota lost money on last year’s crop. They plan to cut acreage increase storage search for new markets and improve marketing plans to avoid similar losses in the next season.
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Middle West
Michigan
Kansas
North Dakota
Nebraska
Minnesota
Sam Houston Twice Married and the Texas Annexation
Private letters revealed Sam Houston separated from his first wife Eliza Allen after a troubled courtship. Abandoned by political scandal he resigned as Tennessee governor, joined the Texans, defeated Mexican forces, and helped annex Texas before marrying Margaret Moffette of Alabama.
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Gen Houston
Eliza ‘Allen
Nashville
Houston
Douglass
Tennessee
Miss Allen
Texas
United States
Margaret Moffette
Alabama
Farmer's ham generosity sparks temper spirit tale
A Pennsylvania congressman recalls a converted farmer who resisted the tempter to give away his best ham to a burned out man. The farmer wrestled with whether to give a small or large ham, then decided to give the largest, sparking a harsh retort from the tempter and a vow to give all he had.
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Pennsylvania
Waited Long to Hear Lohengrin Opera
Guerber notes Lohengrin drew European musical and literary figures invited by Liszt. The 1861 Vienna premiere came 11 years after its first performance, by which time Wagner was a political exile and had not yet heard it.
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Wagner
Guerber
Europe
Liszt
Germany
Wager
Vienna
Killing Crocodiles with a Double-Bladed Dagger
Adventure Magazine describes a method used by African natives in the Zambesi marshes to kill crocodiles. The hunter drives a dagger into the mouth as the animal opens, then pulls free as the jaws close, the blade moving toward the brain with each bite until the crocodile dies.
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Zambesi
Adventure Magazine
A Fight for Reputation by Roadside Bandits
A man attacked by two highwaymen on a lonely road fights for his life but is overpowered. They search him and find only a dime, then again with no further results. Asked why he fought, he says he did not want his financial condition exposed.
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Harper’s Magazine
Widow confronts rumors of second husband boast
A newly married widow overhears her second husband telling a friend he has a wife and four children to boot. She retorts to boot his children, displaying sharp wit in a sharp exchange reported by the Louisville Courier Journal.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Spread of Wheat Rust by Barberry
The article recounts that barberry bushes near wheat fields spread black stem rust. It notes barberry destruction halted epidemics, cites Dr. E C Stakman, and details De Bary’s 1865 discovery of rust lifecycle with winter black stage on barberry and wind‑carried spores infecting grains.
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United States Department Agriculture
E. C. Stakman
United States Department of Agriculture
England
de Bary
Doctor Stakman
Barberry
Culture of Clover for Profitable Seed Crop
Farmers with heavy clover growth should cut when heads brown and windrow to cure. Haul under cover and spread one peck coarse salt per two horse loads or layer straw between loads to prevent heating. Side delivery rake improves curing by keeping hay loose and protects leaves and stems.
Flies Hurt Milk Output, Dairymen Advised Protection
The dairy farmer warns that flies substantially reduce milk flow by unsettling cows. Extension division recommends a repellant spray: twelve ounces each of crude carbolic acid turpentine and oil of tar, plus three quarters of an ounce of tannin, diluted with kerosene to five gallons, sprayed on cattle at night and morning.
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College
Sudan Grass as Emergency Pasture and Hay Crop
For farmers facing hay or pasture shortages, Sudan grass offers an emergency crop. Two hay cuts per season can yield two to four tons per acre, though feeding value is similar to ordinary grass hay unless grown with soybeans or cowpeas. It can serve as pasture or a selling crop, not just hay.
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Sudan
Feather Eating Habit Hard to Cure in Fowls
Harry Embleton of the A and M College explains feather eating in poultry stems from missing foods such as milk tankage meat scraps or alfalfa pasturage. Providing these feeds in sufficient quantities can stop the habit though persistent cases may require culling.
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Harry Embleton
A. and M. College
Companionship and a nephew's plea in old age
In a 1923 Western Newspaper Union tale Miss Mortimer considers a unique advert inviting a daughter to live as a companion. Adella Winthrop reveals her motive while Miss Mortimer faces her past with an unrepentant nephew Jim. A plan to unite through marriage unfolds amid affection and duty.
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Iss Mortimer
Mrs. Bundy
Miss Mortimer
Eliza
Susan Mortimer
Bessie
Bess
Adella Winthrop
Mother
Miss Mortl
Mrs.Bundy
Jim
Colleg
Warren
Mothe
Hit
James Warren
Panion
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Browning, Missouri
Joe Nickell
Browning, Mo
Joe Creason
Chicago
U. B
W. E. Jenkins
Howard
Kirksville
Luther Devore
Wilma Hawkins
Joe Creasons
Cross Roads
Cora
D. G. Havens
Mrs
George Franklin
Lester Kenley
Mary
George Jennings
Hazel
George Dodson
Sylvia
Cecil Carmack
Vesta Dodson
Ethel
E. E. Maxey
J.h.tharp
Salem
Sedalia
F. L. Fitch
G. G. Grider
Sam Houston
By Molly Mather
Western Newspaper Union
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