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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1931
Page
3
Mr. Absalom McPeake learns Elmer Butterworth Clarke that a forty thousand dollar mortgage connected to Benedict Catherton’s will stands unpaid. Clarke refuses to pursue any dirty settlement, insisting contracts must be honored and pledging to recover nothing if needed.
Clarke confronts McPeake over hiring Bunker the longtime executor and his uncle Hiram’s will. Clarke argues the weak man would be ruined by a windfall and pushes for court-ordered sale of estate real estate to raise cash. The plan seeks to avoid years of slow income while mortgage interest compounds.
In a tense hotel confrontation Elmer Clarke refuses to pay ninety thousand dollars to his uncle’s longtime ally Bunker. Bunker admits decades of income tax fraud tied to the late Hiram Butterworth and vows to expose the scheme unless compensated. The probate sale and distribution loom as the story continues.
Elmer Clarke meets Bunker and McPeake's lawyer as he weighs the clerk's case. He brands Bunker a furtive cruel man and decides not to give him ninety thousand dollars, noting Bunker's ten years of increasing pay and Uncle Hiram's four hundred dollar monthly support.
The Highlands wrap a broad north and northwestern Scotland, sharing Celtic traditions and geography. It includes Banff Moray Aberdeens Kincardine Perth hills and lowlands. Caithness may be excluded. The eastern Ross-shire plains rise as notable highland tracts. Hebrides included while Orkney and Shetland are excluded due to Norse heritage.
A quotation compares mental disease to a fastidious taste and a stomach ailment to a squeamish appetite, attributing both origins to physical or psychological illness. The line reflects 19th century views on mind body connections.
The excerpt endorses Castoria for distressed infants who cannot sleep or play, claiming a few drops ease the trouble and bring restful sleep. It emphasizes Castoria as harmless yet effective and urges keeping it on hand for everyday use and emergencies.
Laysan Island once a bird paradise 800 miles west of Honolulu is now a barren waste. In 1891 it teemed with seabirds including albatrosses and love birds. plume hunters from Japan killed millions of birds by 1910. By 1911 rabbits proliferated, threatening plant life and the insects and birds, with miller birds and teals already reduced.
An old advertisement claims Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the original liver and bowel regulator, marketed for digestive health for sixty years. The ad emphasizes their use as a tonic and purgative for liver issues.
A dialogue between a mother and father discusses a near seventeen year old daughter named Norma and the topics she faces. The piece presents a homemaker’s candid view on adolescence and maturation in a periodical tone.
In a nautical warning the Green-Eyed Monster counsels Mrs. Junebride-Steer to sail toward open sea and avoid hugging the shore while her husband jokes about jealousy.
Old-time regulars in the Philippines hold to a fixed opinion about soldiers and dogs. Herbert E. Smith, in the United States Army Recruiting News, notes that many garrisons now own a wide variety of canine population of divers sizes shapes and lineage.
The article notes cats as common mascots after dogs among service members. It cites Fort Missoula Montana and Fort Snelling Minnesota on the northern tier, where wilder animals appear as mascots. A coyote at Fort Missoula and a wounded bald eagle at Fort Seelling were temporary mascots before leaving.
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