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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1920
Page
4
A collection of aphorisms and quips reflecting social views of the era. Observations on education, pride, friendship, envy, and time. notes on manners and self awareness weave through short, witty lines attributed to various unnamed speakers.
The passage argues that envy leads to hatred toward clever individuals, while learning reduces danger. It contrasts unselfishness with market conditions and notes that a well kept cemetery signals a living community, whereas neglect indicates decline.
Visitors to town spend two dollars on ginger at a bar and five dollars on store luxuries, then gamble at gaming tables before returning home and borrowing a neighbor's paper.
A reader questions why printers call apprentices devils and notes a joke about hell in a print shop. The letter references Abe Lincoln on justice and broad claims about thugs, crooked trees, and childhood abuse shaping faults, ending with a remark on mental balance.
A strong wind and rain Saturday evening damaged corn in the area. Social notes report Mrs. Minnie Southerland returning from St Joe and improving slowly. Several families including Jesse Woodside Douglas Jenkins and Chester Bagley visited Everett Jenkins, while Mrs Patterson and Mrs Garrett connected last week. Other visitors hailed from Gann Valley Kimble and Purdin, with Miss Laura Davis spending time with Mrs A W Cotter. Ollie Garrett plans to move to Purdin after buying property. Add Grillem.
Chan Chan in Peru is described as one of the world’s oldest cities built by the Chimu. The city fell to the Incas then the Spanish, who looted vast gold and silver from its mounds where the dead were buried with grave goods.
Letters from 1447 by Antonia Malfante describe Genoese Jewish traders operating from Timbuktu to Touat, forming a vast commerce with Sahara natives. The notes, published by the National Geographic Society, portray Timbuktu as a bustling hub and Touat as a caravan center with village chiefs and census practices.
NYU owns a historic photograph of the institution’s first janitor. He carried a gong and stick to summon students to classes when the university opened on January 8, 1880. He patrolled corridors, beating the gong to move classes as there was no electric bell system.
The Saturday evening rain and wind storm caused considerable damage in the area blowing down corn and cane and stripping fruit from trees. Perry Christian and family visited Ben Purdins on Sunday. Lawrence Drier and wife visited Charley Cordray on Sunday. I J McCollum and wife visited Elwood Thudiums on Sunday with Mrs Laura Thudiums at night. Catherine Cattey visited Ruby Abbott on Sunday afternoon. George Milhoan and family visited Okey Milhoan on Sunday. Otis McCollum and wife with son Edgar visited Mrs Dale Sills on Sunday.
The Arctic sea cow or Steller's sea cow vanished after 1854, about a century after first white discovery. Full grown specimens weighed up to 8000 pounds and they fed in shallow river mouths in herds. They were exceptionally tame and could be stroked, their flesh resembled beef, but whaling disrupted supplies and led to their extinction.
A sick boy named Charles returns to school to find his familiar room rearranged and unfamiliar pupils. He stands by the teacher’s table, despondent, saying he cannot find anyone here that belongs to him.
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