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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1927
Page
4
A garbled page of aphorisms and quips on manners money and social behavior. It offers pithy lines about friendship pride travel and advice with many misspellings and incomplete phrases from a 20th century column. The tone is light humorous and observational. The fragment references Joe Nickell editor and brown den Missouri port office but lacks coherent events or dates.
A collage of short items and anecdotes notes social visits, rodeo trips, and family mentions. Polk Wood and Everett Crookshanks family motored to Green City for a rodeo. Brownings celebrated the Glorious Fourth. Mrs. Dodson and children visit relatives. Sheriff Emmet Phillips and wife dined with kin. Multiple Phillips, Morris, and Arnold families appear in weekend gatherings and college student travels.
Thursday and Tuesday gatherings described include Rev W W Ch, W Arnold home near Browning, Mr and Mrs Tom McCown, Mrs Sarah Hall visiting Henry Jerome, and callers at Arnold and Coulter homes. Event mentions include R N A county convention in Shafter, theater plans at Lone Star Theatre, cream supper July 7, and various visits by local families and deputies.
Cora and nearby communities hosted a Sunday rodeo in Green City followed by a Monday Browning celebration. Kansas City visitors Ola Knnfong and family spent time with relatives near Cora. W T Jennings and children Duff and Edna enjoyed a Saturday in Trenton shopping. Hardie Dillinger departed Friday for Kansas for a balloon ascension Monday. Tom Head of Sigourney Iowa visits relatives in and near Cora this week. Agand J R Whitaker and families from near Milan spent Sunday Rey Helms Charlie Pipes and family were Saturday at A C Brinkley
Vane C Thurlo Administrator of the estate of Charles F Peters deceased gives notice to creditors and interested parties of intent to make final settlement at the next term of the Probate Court of Linn County Missouri to be held at Linneus on the Sunday of August 1927 First Publication July 7th.
In early times plain names were distinguished by nicknames. Wealth and status led to the title maistre or maister before a surname, yielding Maister Smith and Maistress Smith. The sense of ownership faded as the term became a general honor for those of importance, notes the Philadelphia Record.
A reflective essay argues newspapers are modern builders of cities. It warns that without a newspaper’s steady operation a town would regress into a ghostly city of the dead, with streets turning to grazing grounds and only departing residents and passersby remaining.
The article traces baseball origins with the Knickerbocker club forming rules in 1845 and early championship contests from 1857 to 1859, noting the sport’s growth. It also reports Linn County farmers diversifying crops and livestock, increasing soybeans and clover, expanding pasture, and improving farm homes, aiming for better income and efficiency.
Letters of administration for the estate of John F Swisegood were granted by the Linn County Missouri Probate Court on June 15 1927. Creditors must present claims within six months of letters grant or be barred after one year. Nolan M Arnold and Arthur L Pratt sign as administrators. First publication June 23.
In the estate of Milford Hall deceased, Millard Hall executor of the estate intends to make final settlement at the next term of the Probate Court of Linn County Missouri to be held at Linneus.
Millard Hall executor cites letters from a cemetery sexton in a nearby county. The communications discuss a sample case, commission rates, and Summers policy of no agents or commissions. The letters are recorded as bonafide and kept on file at Summers’s business.
The state health laboratory notes rabies occurs in many warm blooded animals and that the dog is the primary infection reservoir. Rabies virus is present days before symptoms, with face or neck bites risking quicker brain involvement. Pasteur treatment should start promptly after a bite, and a dog alive and well two weeks post bite likely free of rabies.
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