Joe Nickell Editor at Brown Men Post Office
Editor Joe Nickell listed as entered at the Brown Men post office as second class mail matter on July 8, 1897 with a date line noting Thursday March 28, 1929.
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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1929
Page
4
Editor Joe Nickell listed as entered at the Brown Men post office as second class mail matter on July 8, 1897 with a date line noting Thursday March 28, 1929.
The text offers aphorisms on religion money and virtue urging regular church attendance and charity while critiquing materialism and intolerance. It ties civic duty to constitutional law and notes the 18th amendment as part of the constitution.
Idoyd Bowyer conducted business in Keyersville on Saturday as road work kept the area busy. Mrs Wallace Keithley has been ill in recent days. Locust Valley Ladies Aid met Hinda Johnson last Thursday. Mr and Mrs John Neely traveled to Brookfield to consult a specialist Sunday. Mr and Mrs Everett Keithley with their sons Norris and Maurice and Rev and Mrs Hale dined with Mrs A F Keithley and Mrs Alpha Rotmann.
Local social headlines document visits and gatherings across households. Frequent mentions include Irene Crooks Fern Keithley John Longwell and many others visiting kin in Chillicothe Milan Browning Galt and Kirksville plus rock games school events and a rural school day with a large cafeteria feast and track events.
A note of social activity describes a Sunday spent in the company of Mr Gordon Johnson and Mrs Gordon Johnson, detailing a quiet family gathering and companionship.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Smith hosted Sunday dinner for Mrs. Smiths father and his wife as their guests.
The Shelby area enjoys a cool spell after rain as spring appears. Residents report oats sown and hens set. Earnest Smith and wife start a new restaurant this week. Several local families visit relatives and attend a sale near Laredo while club activities unfold in Haseville.
Public sale of Lots 13 14 and 15 in Block 19 Browning Linn County Missouri to satisfy past due note and interest. Omar M Ramsey Sheriff of Linn County to sell at the Post Office door in Browning on Friday April 12 1929 between 9am and 5pm for cash to settle debt and costs.
Ada McCollum hosted a social call on Saturday evening and Mrs Roe Logan was invited. Mr and Mrs Leon Gooch visited at the home of her parents in Shelby on Sunday. Rev M A Hale will preach in Shelby Sunday morning and evening. Everyone cordially invited.
Ernest L. Dodson declares purchase of the G. M. Spencer store in Cora and invites customers with assurances of high market prices for produce and a clean stock of groceries.
Hale's Pharmacy urges customers to examine and compare prices before buying wallpaper, claiming good quality and low prices drive high volume in the town of Purdin.
Uncle Dave Gibson reports strong success with his spring lambs farmed for 34 stock. He saved 32, and a ewe produced twins then another lamb in two weeks, all three thriving and growing well.
Exclusive optometrist Dr Hanna will set up at the Winigan hotel on Tuesday April 2 and at the North Salem Phone office on Wednesday April 3 offering eye examinations and glasses.
The Gross Studio in Brookfield Missouri offers professional finishing with wide white margins and high gloss finish. One day service and same day results available by mail order with free mailing sacks and envelopes.
A sale lists a fresh Jersey cow aged four and a roan cow aged three, plus two calves by side from two year olds, and a two year old dark Jersey and yellow Jersey with calves. Furniture includes an Angelus player piano, dining set, bookcase, sewing machine, variety of chairs, stoves, range, kitchen cabinet, refriger ator, telephone, incubator, rug, bed components, and a 15 to 20 bushel corn lot.
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