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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1939
Page
6
Four old friends in an Irish provincial town visit an inn and drink together. At the railway, three board the departing train while the fourth stays behind, laughing as he was to be seen off. Station Master asks why, and the man explains they were supposed to be seeing him off.
S. S. McClure, at 57 in 1914, plans to revive McClure's Magazine and Lincoln Steffens amid his social issue writing. The piece notes his long battle for civic righteousness and views on the US Constitution, while highlighting his mentorship of famous writers and rise from Indiana prairie roots to publishing pioneer. Carl Van Doren disputes a new barbarism, praising director W. S. Van Dyke’s career and linking him to Greta Garbo and Lupe Velez in Hollywood.
A compilation of Civil War era stories recounts 18 year old Georgia cadet David Ross captured on Lake Erie, his escape to Canada, and partnership with Confederate agent Beall to seize the Philo Parsons and the S S Island Queen with 170 Union soldiers aboard. The raid ends with a pursuit by the Michigan and a retreat to Detroit. Also told is Newt Knight’s Leaf River swamp republic and its later notoriety in Jones county Mississippi. Lewis Littlepage’s youthful exploits from Fredericksburg to Warsaw and Paris, meeting Lafayette, serving in Russia and Poland, and dying in 1801 after a life of danger.
Barbara Bell pattern instruction promotes a chic easy to sew summer wardrobe with two dress patterns No 1643 and No 1752. It highlights simple lines feminine frills and roomy gloves crafted in cottons linen voile and crepe with yardage listed for several sizes. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago for the Spring-Summer Pattern Book.
Couriers advertise that Etro Melody Publishers at 532 Geary Street San Francisco seeks songs and poems for publication. The notice requests submissions and outlines buying or publishing arrangements for literary works.
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