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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1917
Page
1
A Los Angeles writer urges women to resist male pressure to curb spending on tobacco and other luxuries. The piece condemns social admonitions while promoting home, town improvement, and prudent roads. It notes rural route cuts and celebrates self reliance, farming towns, and natural living.
The speaker extols Missouri as a sublime, almost mythical land worthy not only of living but dying for. He likens Missouri to Atlantis and a garden of the Hesperides, praising its fields, mills, rivers, and natural beauty across a lyrical, patriotic ode full of vivid place myths and rural imagery.
A vivid fantasy envisions Missouri lead fueling war in Europe with tanks sammies and barbed wire. The piece imagines a grand State Fair display showing Red Cross units kitchens and war relics illustrating a miniature war for public sympathy and fundraising.
Daily additions mark the patriotic display for the Missouri State Fair September 22 and 23 in Sedalia. England, France, and Canada will contribute relics from Somme, Flanders, Ypres, and other campaigns. The exhibit promises a powerful, realistic panorama of wartime history and sacrifice.
Chicago message to bankers and editors warns of meat shortage from high grain prices and limited feed. It urges farmers to cut and shock corn for feed, save straw, and sow winter wheat to preserve livestock and ease next spring’s labor shortage.
A letter from J B Lamson an agriculturist with C B and Q R R invites support for spreading propaganda and securing seed for farmers. He offers assistance and asks to call for aid in this effort.
State Highway Department urges road overseers to comply with section 65, page 464, Session Laws 1917, requiring finger boards at road forks or crossings guiding to the next important place and distance, noting many counties lack proper road marking. The call aims for this county to be among the first to fulfill the law.
W R Haggerd, a farmer on route 2, delivered two tomatoes weighing about 4 pounds 8 ounces. The larger fruit nearly reached four pounds and was described as the finest tomato the writer had ever seen.
Monday Ray Nickell foreman at this office received notice to appear in Milan at two to travel to Fort Riley Kansas by train. He was the first Sullivan county man called with the September five percent draft and will train with others called on September nineteenth. The family believes he will make a good soldier.
Prof and Mrs Orley H Lee present a musical entertainment at the Electric Theater on Friday night September 7 under the Parents Teachers Association. Proceeds benefit improvement of school grounds.
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