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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1924
Page
7
In a rain drenched city office district Tom Swain tries to return a lost pair of women’s rubbers. A misnamed Matilda leads him to a mistaken search through the building until a cafeteria meeting reveals Matilda is Mary Ann, and love blooms as he learns the truth.
A Stockholm dispatch notes plans to lay telephone lines to the northern Lapland Lapps to deliver meteorological bulletins and snow-conditions information for their spring and autumn migrations. The project would extend civilization toward the Arctic circle, aiding the nomadic reindeer herders who rely on reindeer for food and materials across northern Sweden and neighboring regions.
A remarkable meat eating plant from the East Indies is shown at the London Horticultural Hall. It attracts mice with a pungent odor from its blossom mouth and traps them with bristles, digesting them with animal-like juices.
Julia Bottomley reports on man tailored twill suits and tailored hats for spring. Box coats and straight lines define the look, with skirts, decorative hats, and varied fabrics like twill, covert, camel’s hair, and crepe weaves. Navy and black dominate, with trimmed details and new hat shapes showcased.
Adventurers in Lexington, Kentucky, uncovered a limestone catacomb in 1775 containing niches with actual mummies preserved as in ancient Egypt. Initial discoverers, misinterpreting the figures as Indian remains, destroyed the site amid a broader Indian white conflict, as detailed in Adventure Magazine.
As a messenger boy Andrew Carnegie read a steel volume in the Allegheny mansion library. Mr. Anderson urged him to take the book home, inspiring Carnegie to promise wealth would fund libraries for others and give youth the same chance he received.
George E. Woodberry argues that art resists complete understanding and grows richer with time. He suggests the value of art lies in ongoing interpretation, where each decade reveals new depth and heaven within the work.
A motorcar travels on a rough country road at four miles an hour. The backseat passenger grows weary and questions the route. The driver admits they did not take the best road, joking that someone else has and left a poor substitute in its place.
A courtroom tale recalls a blundering barrister in a suit about hogs who argued there were 36 hogs in the drove, claiming three times the jury box. The line failed to win the case.
Lucy May Schaer from Hot Springs Arkansas rose from pupil to first female clerk in the U S post office in Hot Springs gaining a local and state Business and Professional Women’s club presidency. She handles letters at 60 to 72 per minute exceeding the required 16 per minute and credits merit exams for advancement. She juggled family duties and community work while urging women to prepare for special lines of work and believes strong hands and quick brains aid success.
The Orlando resident, orphaned at nine, runs the ticket office and sells insurance and loans for local white-housing residents. Her efficiency earns praise nationwide and she trained girls for a wartime railroad ticket Sellers’ school in Atlanta. She believes town roots fuel growth and success.
A humorous exchange recounted in the Boston Transcript has a sympathetic, impecunious poet describing a burglary. He says intruders searched the room and then left behind two dollars as a “gift.” The ditto artist comments on the odd scene.
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