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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1943
Page
7
The record notes a lesson plan dated May 30 with selected subjects and scripture passages. It credits the International Council of Religious Education for copyright and usage permissions.
A devotional study reflecting on I Peter 1 1, 2 11 25 urges Christians to live as pilgrims apart from worldly values and to submit to civil authority, endure persecution, and follow Christ's example without vengeance while maintaining faithful witness amid global trials.
A sewing pattern ad touts a stylish housework friendly frock with flattering lines. Pattern No 8367 offers sizes 34 through 48 and requires 4 yards 35 inch material and 8 yards braid for size 36 with short sleeves.
A digest of home hacks covers cleaning fruit jars with salt, improving squash with white cheese sauce, using potato to fix over salted soup, absorbing fridge odors with raw potato, adding tapioca to berry pies for neat juice, glycerine to wool wash water to keep fluff, vinegar to deodorize and clean pans, and securing buttons by attaching a small thread of stitching on the hidden side.
Army officials cite cigarettes as a morale booster and soldiers confirm a carton from home is welcomed. Post Exchanges and canteens show Camels as the preferred brand across services. Restrictions on overseas shipments remain but Camels can still be sent domestically to all branches.
Pattern No. 8396 comes in sizes 12 14 16 18 and 20 with size 14 needing 312 yards of 39 inch material. Due to high demand and war conditions some orders take longer for the most popular patterns. Send your order to:
A humorous anecdote recalls a woman asking a photographer to enlarge a portrait of her husband and remove his hat. The photographer asks which hair part to show, and she replies you’ll see it once the hat is removed. The joke hinges on missing details and the hat as the clue to the hair part.
Visitors watch a junior class where Betty volunteers to recite and answers Ta ta mum with a bright performance. The teacher praises the effort as Betty steps forward to impress the class.
A set of ten trivia questions covering geography, history, and civics. Topics include the earth’s solid part, a WWII general, Senate term rotation, carnprice songs, medical terms, carte blanche, first U.S. president born under the flag, rum from sugar cane, Grand Canyon dimensions, and eligibility of naturalized citizens for federal offices.
A brief note identifies the term lithosphere and cites General George S. Patton Jr. as a referenced figure.
A playful exchange of lines explores sleep talking and relational humor. One character seeks advice about talking in sleep while the other offers teasing but practical banter about love and being an acquired taste.
A visitor notes loud upstairs noise as Sonny explains his mother drags his father’s pants across the floor. Sonny reveals the father is in them, creating uneasy domestic tension.
A note from a teacher asking Johnny's mother to bathe him prompts a witty reply from Johnny. He writes that when he sends John ny to school he sends him to be learnt and not to be smelt, claiming he is no rose.
A woman complains her husband neglects his appearance and cannot keep buttons, while a neighbor suggests the issue lies in improper sewing. The dialogue reveals concern over clothing upkeep and domestic tidiness.
On the home front Ruth Wyeth Spears describes using curtains to cover bay windows and unite them as a spacious room feature. She notes existing rods can be extended over the wall by wiring to hooks and offers Book 1 with twelve curtain styles and DIY rigging for draw curtains for 15 cents.
A dog from the 505th Parachute Battalion at Fort Benning Georgia is set to receive silver wings for performing five airborne jumps. The best known dog is Max a boxer who has already completed eight jumps using a harness with a large parachute opened by a static line.
Motorist Aloysius Sebastian Cyprian is cited for speeding. Traffic Cop warns to avoid future offenses and pockets the notebook.
A playful exchange in Off on One has one character declaring an imitation of a man going upstairs only to reveal he is "on an elevator" and not moving. The gag hinges on the pun between elevator motion and ascent.
A sequence presents numbered definitions: 3. One third, 4. A boat song, 5. A network of blood vessels or nerves, 6. Full powers, 7. Martin Van Buren, 8. Rum, 9. About one mile deep and from eight to ten miles wide at top, 10. All excepting President and vice president.
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