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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1911
Page
4
An advisory urging parents to keep children in school daily to ensure promotions and successful completion of the course. It argues missing classes jeopardizes grades and credit, notes parting to another school if needed, and stresses parental oversight of study and whereabouts.
A minister in Milan introduces a method to curb attention to late arrivals by naming each entering parishioner. The plan backfires as Mrs Symons and other women turn to look, creating a humorous scene. The Milan Standard notes the office ad jokingly asking a beloved pie crust to come.
A playful note addresses a wayward subscriber in arrears with affectionate humor. The writer reassures they remain at the same stand, continuing to dish out advertisers and bright promises as a deserts of encouragement. The piece ends with a warm, teasy vow to the reader.
James Williams closed a successful term at the Jenkins school with a large crowd enjoying a program of recitations drills readings and dialogues. The school house was crowded and patrons praised the pupil progress and Williams popularity.
Local and personal items note for sale stoves and an ice chest, and inquiries at the office. Social updates cover visits by Mr and Mrs Healy in Milan and Mrs Frank Adams returning from Chillicothe. Several townspeople travel for creamery business, paper subscriptions, horse buying in Green City, and silk mail-order ads. Daisy Phillips closes a successful Hooker school term with a praised program.
Remnants of side and border paper are offered by Whaley Drug Co at three and five cents per bolt, highlighting a bargain for trimming projects and craft needs.
The Missouri Farmer and Breeder offers a quart of Pure Bred Seed Corn with every new subscription, enough to plant a quarter acre. Seed costs $2.50 to $4.00 per bushel and promises higher yields. The paper, edited by Geo B. Ellis, costs 50 cents yearly and is published in Columbia, Missouri.
Harvey promotes coal and a seed corn proposition to farmers through two publications. Readers who send fifty cents receive The Kansas City Way Journal and a pound of Pedigreed White Seed Corn while supplies last.
A Kansas City Weekly Journal promotion offers one year each of the Kansas City Weekly Journal and the Missouri and Kansas Farmer plus one pound of Clay County White Pedigreed Seed Corn free for 50 cents. The seed corn is 95 days, high yielding, and mailed postage paid to subscribers who send the payment. The ad targets farmers in Missouri, describes the corn’s quality, and provides mailing details to Kansas City Missouri.
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