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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1931
Page
6
A small grocery ad lists bacon squares and minced ham at 15 cents per pound with two pound quantities, along with weiners at 15 cents per pound, cream cheese longhorn style at 20 cents per pound and two pounds, home rendered lard in 4 pound pails, and various fresh pork and beef items. The page shows price blocks and item descriptors in a compact format.
Gardeners should value toads as insect pest destroyers. In spring they emerge from hibernation to seek ponds, filling waters with tadpoles that mature into toads. The young toads then migrate to summer feeding grounds where insects are plentiful.
We have been having some very hot weather the past week. Roy Glaze went to Milan on business Tuesday. Bertha Henning is spending a days with her mother, Mrs. Hes ter Hunskaer. George Jennings who has been spending a few months, with friends and relatives, left for his home in Parsons, Kansas, last Saturday. Quite a few attended the Cora ball game, Sunday. Humphreys defeated Cora by a score of 11 to 8. Mrs. Bill Seward of Davenport, Iowa spent last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Jennings and family. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Whitaker and son, Gwendlene spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Hollon and daughter, Verline. Mrs. Haskell Hollon of Crawford, Mo., spent one day last with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Fanning.
Leonard Haseman of Missouri College of Agriculture extols the value of toads as insect eaters. He notes their efficiency against pests, their stalking method, and repeated feeding in gardens, while warning that snakes and careless humans threaten this beneficial animal.
Ica and Kittie Street returned home from a vacation in Washington DC and other points. L. G. Hamner and wife and their little son visited Roy Brown and family. Wm. Pulliam and wife visited Joe Creason and wife. Ed Pulliam, Ray Pulliam and family, Mrs. Lucy Cotter, Raymond Bagley and family toured Kirksville to see Nellie Pulliam, a Laughlin hospital nurse. The Penhale and Street families joined the Monroe home visit, Williard Pulliam’s family visited Chas Pulliam, and Mrs. Jess Pulliam with Mrs. Briggs visited the Wm. Pulliam home and picked gooseberries.
An old style ad offers a high pressure electric car wash at $1.00 with expert staff. It promises hot cars stay cool with a money back guarantee and highlights greasing using water proof grease and high pressure air grease guns.
A grocery advertisement touts specialist shops for dental work and food items. It promotes Butter N W Creamery milk and National Wide coffee, Belleville House Manhattan vacuum packs, Pork and Beans, Ivory Soap Beads and Palm Olive, and various cleaners and syrups with mixed prices and multi pack offers.
The item recounts George Washington's early political efforts including potential runs for the Virginia House of Burgesses, his 1758 election win in Frederick County, and gratitude toward Col. James Wood for managing his campaign. It notes ongoing discussion of his earlier Fairfax County bid and references letters from 1755 and 1758. (Continued on back page)
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