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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1916
Page
1
A fragment discusses wives and marriage dynamics, then shifts to locals urging support for home merchants against distant department stores. It notes rising newspaper advertising and its economic impact, with a sensational line about an Aurora girl paying $11.26 for a husband who later died leaving her $19,000.
Bertha Malissa Coffman born February 28 1855 in Sullivan county Missouri died November 18 1916 at age 61 years 8 months 15 days after a long illness pneumonia. She lived with her sister in Oklahoma since 1902 never married left three sisters and two brothers. Funeral in Baker church with many mourners and burial near Laclede.
The speaker notes extreme budget strain causing meals to blend scarce resources. One end becomes oatmeal and the other fried potatoes while occasionally the middle includes smoked sausage, illustrating persistent financial hardship and improvised eating.
George Barr McCutcheon novels become films with Lasky Feature Play producing The Rose in the Ring as The Circus Man. Theodore Roberts, noted dramatic actor, leads the cast, with the show at the Electric Theatre on Friday night, November 24.
For sale一个 large soft coal heater and three gasoline lights with tank. See J. B. Harmon or J. H. Dunkin.
A Failbrook California Enterprise item prints a schoolboy’s humorous essay on editors. He quips that editors are the missing links, never dying, who wrote up the flood tale and still survive, contrasts editor and doctor traits, and ends with editors needing to be born.
Miss Caroline Biswell hosted eight couples at the Line Street home of her parents Thursday evening. The rooms were adorned with ferns roses and chrysanthemums. Mrs Biswell supervised a fine three course dinner assisted by Miss Geraldine Prather. The party featured conversation readings and music with guests departing pleased by the pleasant evening.
We will buy all the good marketable corn you have for sale at the highest market price. See us before you sell. N. E. Cotter and J. W. Jones.
Farmers consider forming a cooperative to study methods for increasing profits and improving rural life. They discuss using funds from the Department of Agriculture and the State University to support a businesslike effort and share ideas from neighbors in social work.
Linn County farmers and other interested parties will gather in Linneus on the first Saturday in December to discuss matters decided at the November 4 Linneus show. They urged that Linn County receive as much aid from the University and the U S Department of Agriculture as any Missouri county and that all farmers attend to learn how cooperation can be obtained. Watch the papers for details before the meeting.
The writer reports a severe cold snap with temperatures reaching 20 below zero and requests two dollars toward a subscription. Van B Arnold signs the note, thanking the editor for continuing to send the Leader-Record to Browning Missouri.
A local discussion highlights the costly hog cholera epidemic risk for Linn county farmers. It urges formation of a county farmers organization to coordinate serum supplies, vaccination, and disinfection to protect herds and reduce losses.
Skimmed milk should be sold as skimmed. A Chinese soy wheat bean sauce is described. Butter from cottonseed-fed cattle melts higher. Forty five thousand ducks died on a marsh near Great Salt Lake. In 1904 road and bridge labor accounted for twenty million of eighty million dollars. Food and drug “guaranty” labels do not endorse quality. Concentrated cider can be made by freezing and centrifuging to remove water. Migratory birds show remarkable sense of direction. Martins reuse the same boxes year after year, even after Brazil visits.
Recurring losses from hog cholera prompt focus on organization vaccination sanitation and education. A U S county shows 14 000 hogs vaccinated during a general epidemic with 98 of treated non sick saved and 70 saved when vaccinated early. Linn county proposes a county organization to prevent epidemics and aid agricultural issues.
The skating rink at Pur din will be opened on Thanksgiving night and stay open through the holidays. Everyone is welcome. Geo. Dray, Manager.
Mr and Mrs James Pierce of Purdin were Friday guests of Mr and Mrs J E Myers continuing social ties in the community with a cordial gathering at the Myers home.
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