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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1921
Page
4
Fragmented local notes from Brown ing Missouri with a 1921 date reference and letters from Paris England. The write ups mention mail carrier Tat McCollum and a humorous hat scene plus family tidbits about health work and personal letters from a brother nicknamed Flat Head.
A collection of curious tidbits covers the Alaska Canada boundary described as a remarkable continuous meridian with markers visible along the entire 600 miles. Other notes include a spider shower in Carlisle and a dust containing living shells found under a microscope.
A discussion explains sound travel from lightning with a rule of thumb. It notes thunder moves about thirteen miles per minute and that sight and sound timing can estimate distance. The text mentions calculating distance from the delay between lightning and thunder, noting maximal observed ranges.
The Buck'in Community Club met at Farmers Lumber Co. offering to send Willard Buster and R. S. Cathan to Marceline, Laclede, Linneus and Browning to craft a plan for Linn county towns to share road funds. The usual distance mentioned was nine miles, while the current note cited thirteen miles.
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