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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1920
Page
9
In Youngstown Telegram a humorous vignette portrays an ebony skinned garbage wagon driver who, frustrated by his mules’ stubbornness, loudly questions, Why you can't listen while directing the team with whoa and gee. The scene ends with his blunt inquiry to the lead mule.
A humorous incident aboard a New York Pennsylvania Station to Chicago train highlights a sleeping car story. A fat couple occupies the lower and upper berths as passengers try to arrange a shared space. During the night a siding stop brings loud hog noises from an adjacent car, prompting a moaning exchange about a man in the upper berth and the difficulty of switching places.
A terse exchange hints at a strained marriage where suspicion clashes with gratitude. The dialogue references bias against a wife and questions underlying motives, suggesting a stage in which faith, bone, and charity shape perceptions and responses. The fragment signals domestic tension amid conflicting loyalties.
A French Academy of Science paper by M. Peron nat presents a sun age estimate arguing the mean star temperature links to surface temperature at formation. With an internal temperature near 12 000 C and mass about 2 10.30 kilograms, the sun would be 2 to 6 million years old, a nebula temperature of 600 000 C implying formation in 800 days while 6 000 000 000 C would form in seven hours.
A 19th century tale recalls a Sussex murderer spared by a rain-swollen gallows and a Portland convict later linked through a poker gambit at Newgate. It also notes San Jose plans for a community educational theater, and a child’s Mother Hubbard drawing with the dog inside the house. London subway trivia and a teaser on coal profits close the item.
An advertisement promotes Freezone as a quick painless remedy for corns and calluses on feet. It claims drops applied to the affected area instantly stop pain and remove the corn or callus root and all. A contrasting line about color blindness follows.
An old advertisement extols Bayer Tablets of Aspirin with warnings to drink water after use and to look for the Bayer Cross. The ad notes conditions treated and small tin boxes, while other text features two jokes about art criticism and marriage expectations from social columns.
The Home Sector notes Tree Surgery as a growing field begun by an Ohio man who runs a training school and places graduates with a company. The piece contrasts wartime worship of officers with the new profession’s promise and risks, warning that time alone can lead to starvation.
A Bach package of Diamond Dyes offers simple directions to dye wool, silk, linen, cotton or blends into a rich fadeless color. Buy Diamond Dyes only for guaranteed results even if you have never dyed before as a druggist can provide the color card.
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