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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1917
Page
1
The piece urges harmonious marriage roles and maternal influence, praising a Christian mother’s steadfast care. It contrasts church choices and emphasizes cheerful home life, kindness, and a steady father’s supportive authority. The text closes with wartime letters describing camp life and discipline.
Wade Havens writes from Browning Missouri describing rain easing dust, a private room for him and the chef, while 202 soldiers share a single dormitory with lights out at 9 15. He notes the camp has the only captain in Forton with battlefield experience and mentions ongoing duties.
A Camp Funston correspondent writes home about long hikes, cold winds, and dust storms. He reports meals, quarters, and pay, plus training, inspections, and plans for furloughs and travel to Ft Sill and California. He mentions Liberty Bonds, a wedding, and fellow soldiers from Putnam and nearby counties.
Our friend W. W. Atkins, one of the Sullivan county boys, at promptly assisted in local efforts bringing attention to the group and their activities.
Camp Funston soldier writes of seeing fine health and busy social life. He notes letters, mess scenes, river trip, Ft. Riley visit on Oct 15, free movies, issued towels and soap, and neighbors from Sullivan and Linn counties across the street. He mentions plenty of gun and Sunday baseball football and movies.
Governor Frederick D. Gardner announces plans to call a special session of the Missouri General Assembly to adopt broad tax reform. The agenda includes reducing state and local tax levy rates, limiting county and city levies, and lowering rates tied to state aid and federal land money after the 1917 assessment.
Joseph Willet, a Burlingon railroad tourist conductor, travels 300 round trips through Chicago every ten days. He crosses the continent Boston to San Francisco and back in three weeks and has logged about 1 600 world circumnavigations. He prefers rail to autos and is famed for guiding children during long journeys.
R H Aishton states the wartime rail strategy focused on maximizing output per mile with fuller use of engines cars and track. He notes the need to persuade the public of reasons for heavier carloads and quicker loading and unloading to maintain efficiency and supply chains.
The piece credits news and editorials for urging efficient transport to aid the war effort and sustain commerce. It notes the railways and the ration owe thanks to the press for explaining and commending the railways' efforts since the war began.
The Linn county board notified a list of boys ready for service including Robert Banta Hannibal Frank Shepherd Glen Westfall Fred V Fay W H Bassett J F Miles Lang W F Gunther James R Wood Lester Whitworth C H Tromehouser F R Mansfield A D Peterson A Lee Edger L B Stanley George Kelley E K Wikerson and C R Wright Bucklin from towns such as Brookfield Marceline Laredo Laclede Browning and Bucklin.
The Brookfield fall festival awarded prizes for corn fits. Winners listed include Jackson township for ears of yellow corn with Bennett Sayers and Walter Sayers receiving $10 each. Benton township awards went to O H Mundell for white corn. Ora Bennett won $10 for yellow and white in Enterprise township with J H Burk taking $20 for best ten ears. Linn county grants W P Brinkley $25 for best ten ears Grand and $100 for best single ear white corn, with Sayers claiming a $5 single ear yellow corn prize and Brinkley also earning $5 for a yellow ear.
Gale Kane stars in Whose Wife a five reel drama at the Electric Theatre for a Red Cross benefit show tonight. The production promises astonishing situations and a startling climax as praised by the New York Telegraph.
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