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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1928
Page
2
A special report from the Associated Industries of Missouri finds state government costs rising from 9.63 million in 1901 02 to 108.79 million in 1925 26 with 4 million spent annually without treasurer reporting. It notes population up 12.6 percent and wealth 207.7 percent but expenses up 1029.54 percent, blaming lack of budget and unrecorded spending.
An editor designer outlines a two story cottage plan offering six rooms and a bath. The design emphasizes simple exterior with wide siding or shingles and a compact 26 by 20 foot footprint yielding roomy interiors and built in kitchen cupboards. Two bedrooms on the second floor have closets and cross ventilation with a rear lighted bathroom.
Cobblestones, long viewed as relics of glacier days, are praised as a durable fire safe building material for medium and low cost homes. The Your Home Magazine article notes natural color blends and minimal outer forms for cobblestone walls, with walls built in courses and greased boards for easy removal.
A company promotes radiators that form a permanent iron to iron joint with a line of home radiators. They claim correctly proportioned tubes and air space to heating surface yield extremely high efficiency.
The piece argues painted walls are not new and recreates an early American bedroom mood. It advises light buff walls with white woodwork, a glossy black floor, rag rugs in bright colors, and antique furniture or painted modern pieces to achieve a plain yet period-accurate look with period accessories like chintz drapes and brass candlesticks.
Forged iron hardware in authentic patterns offered at reasonable prices. Hinge straps, handle sets, knockers, H and L hinges, lanterns, foot scrapers, garage and gate hardware included.
In Fredericksburg Virginia police close the case of nine year old Albert Baker who vanished February 22 1927 and whose body was found in the Rappahannock river bound in a sack The driver tied the body and dumped it into the river The driver Henry W Grimes drowned in the same river Abram Grimes the farmer brother Confessed Henry drove the auto after the boy ran into traffic The confession followed amid prior theories of kidnapping and murder
Paul Stanley, a truck driver, and his wife left Justice Ora Killefer's court after Stanley paid a $5 fine for spanking his wife. The act occurred on Hartford main street before a crowd of onlookers. Stanley said his wife had taken his automobile without permission.
Fer reira Braca, despondent over family blocking his movie plans, crawled into a lion cage in Rio de Janeiro. When guards moved him he drew a revolver and shot himself, dying from the wound.
Steve Haydn, lured by two city men claiming a training system, agreed to part with $700 to secure a boxing match with Gene Tunney. The incident led to their arrest in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
O. D. Glenn of Crawford Colorado shows gains from cow testing with 11 cows rising from 241 to 406.4 pounds butterfat monthly per cow over a year. He earned 163 dollars above feed cost in May 1928, a 12.50 per cow return, after eliminating boarder cows and using home-grown feeds. The test costs 34 cents per cow monthly and weighs milk once monthly while offering feeding and breeding guidance.
Observations show young calves gain better when protected from sun and heat. Shelter in clean ventilated pens reduces sun irritated hides and supports regular rations, especially in hot weather with flies. Early life growth impulse requires proper feed and care to avoid lasting retardation.
Dairy notes discuss silage as a digestible aid for high producing cows and its role during hay shortages. Calves may nurse two to three times daily until ninth milking, then be weaned. Experiments show two to three tons of silage can equal one ton of hay in feeding value for dairy cows.
Nature Magazine states that Chaldean and Platonic thinkers located the gate of the gods in Capri cornus. Souls pass to heaven through this gate after death while souls descend through the gate of men in Cancer. The gates align with the winter and summer solstices respectively.
On Santa Catalina Island archaeologists uncovered the burial chamber of a seven to eight year old Indian girl in a 134 pound urn. Surrounding her were 64 child skeletons and a seven foot male with a fixed spear blade. Obsidian knives wampum inlays and a slate trail map suggest a royal burial connected to the sun god temple site Chinigchinich.
The Department of Agriculture outlines butter storage: pasteurized sweet cream churned at low temperature and washed to keep it firm. Wrap rolls or prints in parchment butter paper, place in a two stone crock, cover with strong brine, and store in a cool odor free place. Popular trio three meals a day.
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