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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1946
Page
2
Instructions cover safe electrical unplugging by pulling the plug not the cord. Cleaning methods include restoring yellowed bathtubs with salt and turpentine and nontypical use of worn sweaters and socks. Tips advise winding wool, saving fabric from children's coats, and patching stucco walls after dampening.
A compact guide notes fabrics requiring low temperatures should be washed first and those needing higher heat later. Start with delicate items and gradually move to sturdier fabrics, matching drying and handling steps to the fabric type.
A farmer explains to a fair city lass that the hornless animal is not a cow but a horse. The joke hinges on the mix up of animal identities and the humorous misunderstanding of ranch life.
A New England farmer is asked the value of his Jersey cow. He replies the price depends on whether the visitor is a tax assessor or if the cow has been killed by a train.
A dispute erupts over ownership of a found object. one party concedes the item while accusing the other of deceit. The exchange centers on who first saw and claimed the item, leaving lingering tension.
During a Clarence Darrow lecture a chairwoman thanked him for an engaging talk. Darrow replied that he had forgotten a key point noting the Phoenicians invented money, adding a pithy postscript to his tale.
In a downpour two men who argued fight until one pins the other. The pinned man refuses to surrender and the aggressor pressures him with questions about giving up. The exchange ends with no capitulation as the rain continues to soak them both.
Kathleen Norris reflects on alimony as unfair and proposals reform. She critiques childless high earners who gain large monthly payments, urges vanishing scales, court oversight, and considers long marriages and elderly spouses differently. The piece lampoons lavish divorced quarters and urges policy change.
The article condemns alimony as a long term payout from former husbands, arguing courts set duration and amount, with child support usually included. It describes a smug faction of former wives living luxuriously on steady incomes, avoiding remarriage to preserve payments, and cites incomes of a thousand dollars monthly as evidence of a faulty system.
The French constituent assembly debates a bill offering newly married couples loans of 80 000 or 100 000 francs repayable over ten years to set up housekeeping. Each child adds a repayment credit of 20 000 francs. five children would fully repay a 100 000 franc loan, effectively rewarding larger families.
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