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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1950
Page
2
A city teacher leads a nature study with students observing a sturdy tree. She asks them to imagine what the tree would say if it could talk. A farm hand nearby reveals the oak is actually a maple, ending the lesson with a humorous twist.
A kind older man asks two newspaper carriers if the papers tire them. The boy replies he does not read them, explaining his reasons as he carries a stack of newspapers under his arm.
Willie accompanies his father to the office for the first time and stares at the president. The executive bluffs a self made man claim, and Willie quips asking why he made himself that way, prompting a humorous exchange.
Mr Jones, ill and urged by his wife, tells a doctor he has no faith in medicine. The doctor replies with a quip that a donkey has no faith in a veterinarian yet is treated and cured anyway.
A policeman recalls a case where a man argued with a truck driver who was not present. The psychiatrist questions the link between fighting and insanity, noting absence of the driver undermines the disturbance claim.
A winter street scene has a housewife noting a neighbor approaching with a small snowplow. Her husband identifies the visitor as her brother returning a garden cultivator he had refused to lend last spring.
The judge brandished his cane and called the prisoner a rogue while the inmate taunted with a quip about the stick’s ends. The exchange underscores a courtroom moment marked by sharp humor and tension.
In a Boston Texas tale a Texan boasts of Alamo heroes as nearly singlehanded defenders. A Boston salesman retorts by asking if the Texan knows Paul Revere, prompting a bemused reply about the famed rider. The exchange highlights regional pride and myth versus history.
A mother praises her son’s science knowledge and asks what steam from a kettle means. Bobby answers that steam indicates you are about to open one of Dad dy’s letters, delivering a playful family moment at the bridge club.
U S secret service agents arrested Hugo Hedin a 57 year old Swedish alien after a 12 year chase through hotels libraries stations and stores. Investigators said he used a lone wolf method creating counterfeit notes including a plate for a five dollar bill and ten plates for one hundred dollars found in his two room Chicago apartment.
New York reports a proposed use of a family radio to attract and burn male mosquitoes via an amplified female mosquito call. Dr. Morton C. Kahn cites Cuba tests showing all males within a mile dying on a charged grill atop a loud speaker. The plan notes females resist the call, and they are the ones who bite humans.
Dr Henry Kessler of West Orange New Jersey told the American Association of Railway Surgeons about an unnamed patient who, despite losing both arms, learned to play Bach and boogie woogie on the piano. After mastering routine tasks the patient was fitted with two metal finger devices and trained to use them, proving the need for rehabilitation and psychological preparation.
Ivy Aucote, 11, in Stanton by Bridge England, owns a pigeon named Joey that does not home to the coop. The bird flies to Ivy’s classroom in Melbourne two and a half miles away after being released, and has repeated the feat. E L Hunt notes such cases are unusual if true.
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