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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1925
Page
6
A correspondent describes a Florida land upswing with highclass operators and many curb-stoners. He plans to sell part of his acreage, seeks properties to move, and warns nonresidents to verify legitimacy amid complex Florida contracts and recording laws.
A fragment from Slats diary covers Friday chaos with the Neverdie team and Pug Stevenses gang, a postponed meeting, football plans thwarted by illness, chronic diagnoses, Sunday school, and teen romance complications amid family notes and a Mrs Higgett child update.
Community notes describe Sunday visits among Brookshire Maxey Spencer and Jennings families. Farm labor includes hay gathering by Dodson Hoskins Turner and others. Noralee Harmon suffered a minor burn from boiling soap but is recovering. Lucile Harmon underwent surgery for appendicitis.
Community residents including Guy Brookshire and family urge rainfall for crops and wells as drought tightens water and harvest prospects in the area.
Cross Road and Shelby area notes list visits by Jack Brown and family with John Bummer. Stewart Woodside and family with Capp Wolf. Fred Keithley and family with Joe Bummer. Eddie Ogle and wife with Ed Ogle. Lizzie Bailey with Paul Jenkins. Harold and Everett Armstrong with Ed and W. J. Armstrong.
Mickie declares no law against carrying nowem and urges readers to grab papers before ad price rises. He warns townspeople not to complain if prices go up and mocks newspaper competition.
Poem by W. Curtis Porter attacking evolution and Clarence Darrow during the Scopes trial era. It argues the Bible story remains true and mocks Darwinian descent from apes. The poem mentions Dayton, Tennessee and Bryan, urging faith over science.
An elderly Egyptologist ends his life after years of solitude and dreamlike thoughts of a past love. A young girl in the next room perceives a telepathic link as the old man’s wish crosses space, uniting souls in the Oversoul before a mother and child share a warm greeting.
At a Hungarian gypsy wedding the chief is served red wine. After tasting he touches the wine to the bride and groom and hurls the pitcher. It shatters and the fragment count signals how many years the couple will live together.
Jay Bruce serves as California's state lion hunter the only person employed to shoot lions. In four years he has killed 153 animals while an estimated 600 lions remain in the state.
A humorous tale recounts Hawtrey being repeatedly fooled by lemons in the village. He falls for a hoax letter from a corporation and then faces Myra Blaine with embarrassment when another fake note is exposed. The crowd’s mischief ends with Myra and Hawtrey embracing as the lemon jests continue.
The Washington Star reports Dorothy Dix’s definition of a good husband as a man who can tell a good story keeps loose change in his pockets and believes a woman is a mystery to be worshiped but not solved. A reader responds that a good wife laughs at those stories leaves change loose and does not expect her husband to solve the mystery.
A short exchange contrasts earning and saving as a path to fortune. A mentor tells the youth that fortunes aren’t earned but saved, framing a practical approach to wealth.
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