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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1920
Page
1
The article urges moral self-improvement and living in the present, avoiding worry, and helping others. It emphasizes personal growth, patience with children, and the value of a father's guidance, ending with a stockholders notice for Browning Telephone Exchange.
Milan Granite Works announces a policy to save customers the usual agents commissions on all memorial and cemetery work. The seller invites direct contact at the business place to discuss orders and emphasizes stock bought at last June's prices.
Browning, the birthplace of a budding artist, sees his youngest son discover paint and a brush. He etches fancy designs on a newly painted barn and on himself, facing initial discouragement from his mother and lukewarm comments from his father. The piece predicts future recognition as Browning plans to pursue art seriously.
A humorous schoolgirl piece contrasts boys and men with playful lines about creation. It jokes that Eve surpassed Adam and that girls might rule, while boys “wear out everything but soap” and mothers and fathers are praised in lighthearted fashion.
At a Linneus meeting of landowners in the recently formed drainage district five commissioners were elected to manage the district, oversee bond issuance, and provide for its operations.
The Locust Creek Drainage District elected D. G. Freeland of Duncan Township as a board member along with four others including F. L. Fitch Edward Stinson and Joe Kollasch. Landowners expect digging of the ditch and its feeders to start this fall or early spring and plan to award contracts and employ an engineer.
The Linneus ball team faced Browning at the new park diamond before a large crowd. Wallace Grice umpired fairly as Frelds and John Moore opened for Browning while Head sprained his ankle and was replaced by Phillips for Linneus Jimmie Stone finished for Browning as both pitchers threw well despite uneven support. Browning won in the first half of the tenth after a back and forth clash.
Mrs. Lou Warren of Pleasanton Kansas wrote Tuesday that she arrived home from Brown ing relatives to find Mr. Warren well. She notes ripe peaches and a busy boom town, urging the Leader-Record be sent.
Advertises purchase of good sound corn in the section. Offers delivery at car or at Bramhall's farm. Urges sellers not to sell until they see him. Bramhall invites inquiries and names himself as buyer.
A prophecy predicts a south west approaching cyclone for Browning around noon next Monday. It warns the storm will be a mile wide and sweep all in its path. People are advised to remain indoors near the cave until about 7:30 to 8 PM when it should be safe to venture out.
The Bakery will open Sunday from 7 30 AM to 9 30 PM with doors closing then and no entry until Monday morning. The business cannot operate at all times on Sunday. D. M. Nickell, Proprietor.
Republicans announce a repeat Chicago Convention showing at the Electric Theatre this Saturday night. Attendees will view pictures of the convention and leaders, with reminders of the date for the event.
G L Barrows announces a new auto overhauling and repairing shop in the Clayton Warren building at Old Scottsville. He offers oils and gasoline and a low charge of 50 cents per hour with guaranteed work and no board or rent costs. Trails welcomed.
We have an order for a few yearling horse mules. Light bone and any height acceptable. Prospective sellers urged to contact W. P. Carter or Guy T. Carter.
A child’s week at Slats Dairy records casual events from Friday to Thursday. Entries describe dancing missteps with J B and Acksidently, school and church attendance, family banter, visits, a bridge lion rumor, cherry pies, and a simple workday, reflecting rural youth life and family ties.
Farmers are urged to provide shade and clean water for all hogs during summer. Excess sunlight and heat reduce hogs' growth and can cause poor thriving, highlighting the need for proper shade across hog houses and pens.
The article notes hogs suffer in heat and blister in July and August. Shade can be provided by trees or canvas, and small hog houses or frames with slides help. Clean fresh water and a concrete wallow are vital, with a 6 by 8 foot excavation and 14 inch depth recommended for a profitable summer water source.
Ross Lantz reports his thirty acre wheat patch averages about thirty bushels per acre. He used a tractor to pull his binder costing roughly twenty cents per acre for gas and oil and worked about fifteen acres per day. Threshing is expected to begin this week if weather allows.
B. T. Jolley was appointed street commissioner by city officials for the coming year. He pledges to perform duties to the best of his ability and expects visible improvements such as cleaning up, weed cutting, and addressing nuisances. Jolley aims for the city to set an example for others.
Mr and Mrs Jeff Harmon left Saturday for Macon county to visit relatives before returning to their home near Perkins Okla. Harmon, once the editor's schoolmate, has moved to oil country and hopes to own an oil well on his farm. The Leader Record will keep readers posted on his boyhood home.
Mysterious buyer may find a Ford coupe in first class condition, run under 500 miles, listed by H B Epperson M D. The note emphasizes pristine state and low mileage.
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