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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1937
Page
2
A 1897 Browning Montana humor column comments on life, marriage, honesty, and economics with quips about neighbors, dixie, and the perils of divorce. It critiques politics and wealth while noting casual relationships and changing social habits in Browning.
Mr and Mrs Carlos Britton spent Sunday night with Charley Britton s family. Mrs Ross Burke and Leland Norris shopped in Chillicothe Friday. Mr and Mrs Andrew Pfeiffer were Sunday dinner guests of Mr and Mrs George Walker. Mr and Mrs Robert Purdin and kin visited Kirksville area. Adrian Stone helped Harley Purdin stock hay. Van Mair s and Dan Coffman visited Kirksville Saturday. Charles Baldwin and two Memphis children visited Lyle Britton s family.
Mrs Will Barkley visited her mother Mrs America Moore and brother Bill Sunday afternoon. Mrs Fred Wheatcraft of La Plata is visiting her sister Mrs Charley Britton. Miss Evelyn Brantner spent Thursday afternoon with Mrs Lois Fanning. Several in this community attended the celebration at Browning Monday.
Purdin area residents report a hot dry spell and hope for rain. D L Cady returns from a Michigan vacation with a fine trip. visits with Cassitys Pulliams and others noted. Funeral of Mrs Joe Bummer attended. Mr Lee Hardin dies, funeral in Purdin. Various visits, travel to Kirksvale and Brownings noted. Grafton Kingsolver home from hospital. haying plentiful with binders and threshers active.
Ted Steele and family returned to Missouri visiting T. L. McDanald. Friends helped Mrs. McDanald paper rooms downstairs. Harold Wilson visits to help with hay. Charley broke his arm recently. Hubert Logan assists with wheat. Curt Bauer and two Misses went to Iowa to fetch corn. Mrs. Paul Smith traveled to Brookfield on business. Herb Wilson visited Browning for dental work. Glenn Bailey and Bernice Pearler visited Ray Rauer's.
Wayne Rulon visits North Salem for reasons unclear. Mrs Charles Wilson contacted Mrs Frank Rauer on Wednesday evening. J M Boyles is very ill. Creed Boyles helps at Mullins farm during haying. Mrs Nic Rauer visited sister Mrs Ray Bauer at North Salem on Wednesday and Thursday. Robert Boyles returned home Sunday from California.
Local notice urges a good old ground soaker to save gardens as extended dry spell threatens Purdin area. Community news reports visits from Kansas City residents, a vacation to Hartford, and a farm accident. Frank Priebe signs off with advice on handling and selling fresh eggs amid heat.
The article explains how heat wilts eggs by drying interior moisture and how to tell wilted eggs by candling and cooking observations. It also offers advice from H. C. Moffett on keeping work horses comfortable in heat, including harness adjustments, bathing, constant water, and fly protection for better efficiency.
A child narrator details a chaotic week of vacation misadventures and family quirks. He describes school talk about Blisters, naming the seven seas, monkeying with a bumble bee, burglar fears, parental banter, and Fourth of July firework caution, ending with a stubborn vow to stay safe.
Mr and Mrs C B Fleming and Mr and Mrs Raymond McCrary of near Chula were guests of Mrs America Fleming Tuesday. Thomas Lindsey of Milton Tl visited Mrs Dorcas Harvey Wednesday. Thomas N Treutner of Pittsfield Illinois weekend guest of Miss Virginia Bling. Ida McQuown, employed at Trenton, spent weekend with her parents C L McQuown. Ella Overstreet of Tulsa Oklahoma visited Linneus Tuesday. Oral Gooch of Haseville spent a few days with sisters H V Campbell and T S Barlow. Virginia Everman of Alexandria, Culver Stockton College student, weekend guest of James Williams and son Edward.
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