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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1918
Page
1
A reflective column discusses tough times and coping with optimism. It blends social critique with calls for cheerful effort, advertising, and civic pride. The piece notes newspaper price pressures, local business issues, and the value of enterprise, ending with a field report from Fort Riley and comments by Lewis Melton.
From Camp Funston Kansas Mary D Melton Dear Aunt Mary writes she is glad to receive mail and remains able to march and drill after two weeks of intense training including bayonet rifle grenade throwing and bombing. He is now a first class private among 21 in the company and mentions possible orders to Kirksville Missouri with four day penalties for non selection. He hints at upcoming hike and promising to send a telegram afterward.
Reports from across the country praise women’s Red Cross work knitting sewing and relief efforts amid food conservation. In Haseville a March 12 wood chopping event at J C Sayers home produced about thirty loads of wood to be auctioned March 26. Attendees included Henry Smith J C Sayers Owen Bartow Silas Bartow Harrison Nichols Ed Sayers Charley Goins Oscar Vo and Jamela Leon Ca.
A fragment lists individuals including Ben Wood Jake Slaughter Wilber Gooch Rolan Gooch Harley Smith Jimmie Collins Tommie Bartow Albert Smith Joe Smith Essie Baird Veda Say ers Mrs Wingate Minta Young Emma Cawood Gertrude Cawood Clara Wood Pearl Wood Rita Wood Veda Jerome Mabel Jerome Grace Jerome Laura Baird and 13 children.
The excerpt lists military units and personnel counts from army hierarchy such as corps 60 600 men, infantry division 19 600, infantry brigade 7 000, regiment 3 000, battalion 1 000, company 250, platoon 60, and squad 11. It also notes roles from major general to corporal and includes a closing tag Stolen.
National notes show India dominates cotton goods imports while Army enlistments since April 1, 1917 exceed 379,000. War activity includes 55 women on the Training Camp Activities Commission and deputy sheriffs near camps nationwide. Rye flour substitution extended to March 31 for Victory bread. Red Cross launches a second 100 million dollar appeal for May 6, with nearly 90 million already appropriated. Germany reports wood replacing celluloid for combs. birch and beech woods yield fine toilet combs. Liberty motor focus shifts to 12-cylinder engines for airplanes. Daughters of the Revolution in Massachusetts and Michigan open cantonal mending rooms. Navy base hospital project mentioned.
The report notes 1917 American Russia trade at 438 million dollars, down 39 million from 1916 due to Vladivostok congestion. It calls for fertilizer licenses by March 20 and cites a National Educational Association plan seeking 140 million dollars yearly over ten years for rural schools with federal aid. It also mentions Canada allowing meat cattle free entry to February 7, 1919 and a 24 percent duty on cattle otherwise.
L G Schrock and J W Fields concluded a deal on the Schrock farm south of the city, partly within limits, at over $22,000. Fields exchanged his city residence and $17,500 for 106 acres. Schrock kept rental properties. They plan to move around April 1.
A union meeting ongoing at the Winigan Baptist church reports 400 people present inside and outside the building. Rev O A Bullock Rev F A Geisenheiner and Prof Hillhouse with wife led special meetings from Bethel church and many converts are expected as delegations from nearby towns attend.
George Martin and Britton were married at Elder C. E. Potter’s residence in the city on Sunday March 17th. The brief notice records a local wedding with no additional details such as witnesses or ring exchanges.
Miss Bernice Britton wed Elvis Martin in a ceremony witnessed by family and friends. The bride, daughter of Charley and Mrs Britton, and the groom, son of Elvis and Mrs Martin of near Winigan, were praised as exemplary and well to do. The Lead er Record joins well wishers in congratulating the couple on a hopeful life together.
The list honors many names including E. J. Hardinger from New Boston H T Humphreys George Hoskins Linneus Mettie Brookshier City David Bailey Purdin W T Moore Laclede C D Singleton route 2 Robert Creason route 1 Carlos Mace route 4 Lewis Arnold City M D Jennings Tyron Okla C S Head North Salem C A Morris Milan A A Brehm star route E M Lambert star route Ches ter Browning route 4 Mrs Vesta Neely City G W Lantz City D W Jennings Cora Lieut J S Neely Camp Wadsworth S C Mrs L C Tomlin Mechanicsburg Ill Chas Owens route 3 A J Jacobs route 1 Adam Reidenbach Purdin J B F Wampler route 4 Mrs C R McCalmont Naco Ariz by Violet Hooker E D Christy route 3 also for Mrs Mary Hedges Brookfield H W Lambert North Salem G K McCollum Keota L W Almond North Salem J N Oaks St Catherine Fuller Sisters route 1 G A Barrows route 1 H E Creason route 1.
Fort Riley Kan March 16 Mr Joe Nickell sends regards to Barrack E I M O T C Gunshed Fort Riley via medical officers training corps member James R Wood. He notes drill intensity and early satisfaction with army life. Lee Gooch Dee Head and Billy Stark visited from Funston last Sunday about four miles away as soldiers march through en route to rifle practice.
North Salem resident L. W. Almond told our office of a hog weighing 740 pounds he killed. He sold half the hog for $55.50 and the lard yield from the 32 gallons was substantial, making Almond proud of the achievement.
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