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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1918
Page
7
In France during WWI Albert Lloyd, known as the coward of Company D, saves his unit after learning to load a machine gun from a dying gunners. He dies firing the weapon, redeemed as a hero, ending with a funeral procession for D company.
The narrator describes preparations for the Somme offensive, detailing how Allied lines, logistics, and artillery advance were organized. He recalls assembling maps from trench models, rehearsals, and the security measures protecting the German defense simulate. He notes the American-made equipment and reflects on the vast, steady flow of supplies and troops to the front.
Isinglass is made from the sounds of swimming bladders of fish. A ton of hake yields 40 to 50 pounds of sounds, dried and processed into sheets. One ounce clarifies 200 to 500 gallons of wine and one pound clarifies 100 to 500 barrels of beer, with uses in cement for mending glass and pottery and in textiles and waterproof fabrics.
The article explains how wild tea reaches ten to twenty feet but is dwarfed to about three feet in cultivation for easier picking. It notes Japan tea is mostly green, black tea is exported though grown mainly on Formosa. Terraced seed plots rise from hill bases to crests, resembling giant steps. Tea-pickers, mostly women, move downhill as picking progresses.
An advertisement touts Freezone as a painless cure for hard and soft corns and calluses. It claims instant stopping of pain and easy lifting of the corn with a tiny bottle sold by druggists for a few cents, credited to a Cincinnati genius.
City Attorney Stephens confronted a persistent peddler who pressed the merits of an ash sifter in his private office. The exchange ends with Stephens admitting he burn gas and smoke, then a quip about being “just sifted” to explain how the peddler entered.
A child Tommie lauds his parents and home as the best before discovering a neighbor’s shoes. He asserts his father’s shoes are larger, revealing a playful vanity. Advertisements intermingle with the tale, including a Cuticura soap and ointment promotion.
Jack and Bert share a fishing joke where Jack asks for the best catch and Bert replies with a proud pair of kings as the punch line told to the judge.
A playful dialogue turns on a burglary joke as Mrs. Gossip asks about cleaning and Mrs. Justwed replies that burglars did the job last night. The scene contrasts domestic chatter with a punchy crime joke. The Scilly islands produce about 700 tons of flowers annually for perfume making.
A Chicago Examiner note recalls a family moment where Lincoln, five, was sent to throw papers away, the landlord asked to include his father's papers, John refused to empty others' papers, then apologized. John admits mischief and claims the instruction was optional.
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