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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1921
Page
1
A reader offers tested domestic advice for harmony and health in home life and marriage. The piece urges kindness, orderly rooms, non scolding, and support for a husband, then shifts to reflections on recuperation, worry, and living nobly. It emphasizes mutual forbearance, cheerful living, and avoiding excessive labor that drains vitality.
One two year old registered Hereford bull named Repeater 2 from Repeater 81 line and two fine yearling registered Hereford bulls from Repeater 1 and Repeater 81. Dams show Anxiety breeding. Very good quality, priced to sell. Hurry if interested. Route 4.
A midwestern witticism suggests laws requiring marriage vows to be written for deaf mutes. The piece jokes that framing affidavits could avert family quarrels and proposes adding a clause to subscribe the husband to his local newspaper in advance.
Mrs. Ben Mairs reports her cat performed a remarkable feat by confronting a blue racer three and a half feet long coiled around its head and neck. Johnson Arnold killed the snake and the cat then ate its dinner of snake.
The narrator recalls a failed memory system scheme pitched as a quick riches method. He contrasts old family restraint with modern temptations like the automobile, movies, sports, and Sunday picnics that erode traditional observance and discipline. The piece satirizes gullibility and shifting moral priorities.
The Rev Samuel Peters advocated strict Sunday observance including Saturday cooking of tur nips and discarding stove fires on the Sabbath with leftovers Monday. The piece notes uncertainty about his role and reflects on the era’s rigid Sabbath proprieties and the fate of those early enforcers.
Pupils from the first and second rooms of the public schools under Mrs Mabyn Gooch and Miss Violet Hooker delighted a large audience. The operetta filled the Electric Theatre and the program followed by the P E O Boys Reading Contest, won by Edgar Carter for the gold ring prize.
Burwell and Porter offer farm loans with 6 percent interest. They promise quick closings and good prepayment privileges for borrowers in Milan, Missouri.
A Browning Browningite letter from Garlington Oklahoma dated May 5 1921 accompanies a check for 150 dollars forwarding a one year advance on the Leader Record Browning Missouri subscription from February. The writer apologizes for neglect and signs Very respectfully G H Moore.
Notice is given of the annual stockholders meeting of the Farmers Exchange Bank at the bank house Browning Missouri on May 18 1921. The meeting starts at 9 o clock in the morning and will last at least three hours for the election of seven directors and for any other business. J J Harmon president J A Calhoun secretary.
Public notice for Benton township Linn county Missouri seeks sealed bids from banks or banking corporations by June 4 1921 for use of township funds. Board reserves right to reject all bids and work to comply with Revised Statutes of 1919. Dated April 20 1921 Guy L Peters Township Clerk.
Missouri shows 263,004 farms with 34.8 million acres in farms and 24.5 million acres improved. Of farms 185,030 are owner operated, 2,826 with Black owners or renters, including 1,644 owners, 48 managers, and 1,134 renters. Overall 56 percent of state land is improved and 44 percent is unimproved or not in farms.
The article argues the home remains civilization’s bulwark amid modern changes in women’s roles. It warns industrial monopolies threaten the home and urges motherly training as essential for child welfare and social stability.
Two friends Friday and Jake played hockey then camped out all day. They cooked eggs but they burnt them while sharing pepper and salt from their pockets. They still ate the eggs.
A fragmented diary style series recalls fishing disappointments at home and at school, snippets of flirtation with J E, taunts from a teacher, candy, a paper, fights, a trip to a pitcher show, and plans to save for a silk dress to impress J E.
Farmers Store promotes a Hoover demonstration on your own rugs to prove how the cleaner cares for and prolongs rug life. Call to arrange a hands on display at the store.
We extend our sincere thanks to neighbors and friends who assisted during the sickness death and burial of our mother May the Lord reward you with entry into the mansion prepared for the redeemed Dela Thomas and Alice Head.
Farmers Store touts Gold Dollars Flour as a simple method to draw and retain grocery customers urging shoppers to buy a sack to become a customer.
Special notice announces a one night showing of the educational feature From Tree To Trade at the Electric Theatre. The film covers the lumber industry, filmed in the South yellow Pine forests and the Pacific Coast White Pine district, presented by Long-Bell Lumber Company.
Herbert C. Bailey spent the past week remodeling shelving in his hardware. B. L. Powell and S. P. Carr built the shelving and H. C. did the varnishing, creating what is described as the nicest and most convenient lot of shelving in the city.
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