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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1913
Page
2
Miss Spooner worries about falling while Mr. Gull offers steady aid and Archibald reassures the momentous, swift engagement of affection. The exchange hints at a delicate, public revelation of feelings.
A typesetter famed for misprints in a printing house becomes a waiter. While serving soup a diner complains of a needle in the bowl. The waiter explains it is a misprint, noting the intended word was neodle, a playful error from the source.
In a city argument over the immigration bill Senator Lodge saluted a sharp retort. The exchange recalls Weeks and a spat with his wife, noting a sardonic comparison to a fish out of water and a sly comment on timing.
A writer visits to gather local color while describing a planned short serial titled The Ugliest Man on Earth. The exchange reveals the author’s reluctance to share stories and a focus on literary work rather than fiction sales.
Mrs Goodman counsels that appreciation comes after loss as she quotes Mrs Nagge saying her husband's life is in danger each day. The Cincinnati Enquirer frames the exchange as a blunt reminder of valuing husbands before they are gone.
American Duchess-Then I am undone.
Fragment from a humorous exchange notes a sleepy hollow chair asked for a placement on a carpet nap. The speaker remarks the husband lacks the nerve to be wise, implying a comic dynamic within the domestic scene.
In Mexico City rival factions used streets for gun practice causing a butterless supper. A mother, father, and child debated who would fetch groceries as the household faced scarcity and fear. The family chose to eat without butter while authorities faced the unrest.
A Wide World writer describes Cairo's tailoring shops where men iron with their feet. He notes irons resemble flat irons but larger with a wooden block on top. The worker places a foot on the block to guide the iron via a long handle, using low boards just above the ground for convenient work.
Mrs Boynton notes her colored gardener Henry wearing crape. She asks if the loss is near or distant. Henry replies it is distant, about twenty five miles.
Albinos have pink eyes because their cornea and iris lack pigment, leaving the eye transparent so underlying blood vessels show through giving a pink appearance.
A saying notes that the average girl treats a new acquaintance much better than an old friend, causing the old friend to feel slighted and puzzled by the change in behavior. The remark reflects social friction over evolving closeness and expectations.
A brief note discusses a corner in food products described as a square deal, signaling focus on fair pricing and stock in trade. No additional data or entities provided.
A user recounts years of coffee use causing dyspepsia and nerve distress. She notes caffeine in tea and coffee worsens indigestion and pain, despite medical dietary guidance. Her husband introduces Postum which improves her stomach symptoms and overall health.
Refugees from Ohio and Indiana floods recount brave acts as the Titanic spirit is echoed in inland rescues. Dr Ray B Harris recalls grewsome injuries, looting by taxi drivers opposed, and a surgeon’s insistence on care. a Dayton timer describes heroic roof hangs and a child’s memory of a father’s grip during the flood night.
A slender man in men's clothes named Norma Thurma faced a Dayton registerer as refugees arrived. Norma traveled with Ralph Myers, his wife, and their three month old baby. Myers climbed a telegraph pole and lowered a rope to his wife who tied it to a meat sack carrying the baby. He pulled the rope to haul the sack and then crossed two wire lines to reach safety.
During a severe flood in Peru Indiana thousands were left without gas or electricity. Families crowded on roofs to escape rising waters while rescue boats searched the town. Courthouse and lodge buildings served as refuge for those awaiting help in freezing temperatures. Rescue aims focused on those in greatest danger, with others to be reached later.
A report lauds river men and water rats who saved Peru from a great loss of life. Charley and Ted Knight with W A Huff braved the Wabash, overturned several times, reaching shore alive. Wives of local millionaires supplied sandwiches and coffee to panicked crowds as heroes aided evacuees.
M B Stohl and C D Williamson of the American Telegraph and Telephone Company trapped by floodwaters saved a lineman’s test set to restore communications after Dayton's river floodswath. Stohl, a wire chief, reached the Dayton office late the night before the floods. The flood cut power and batteries, but they improvised to reestablish link.
He sobbed as he described death and desolation aboard a wrecked vessel. Floating debris carried men women and children toward doom while bodies surfaced on the waves. Yet he remained at his post and pressed on with his duties.
Across Dayton, volunteers risked death for three days as they attempted rescues in floodwaters. Several rescuers perished, their identities unconfirmed. Onlookers watched boats overturn and a floating frame house drift past Main Street Bridge where four women in a window waved before the structure broke apart. Debris later surfaced downriver without the women.
Amid Dayton floodwaters residents faced peril and panic as boats ferried people from submerged homes. Some cheered the rescue while others faced shootings and insanity claims. A father killed his four children before leaping to his death as the flood raged.
Survivors recount harrowing floods that trapped hundreds in Dayton buildings. John Volbrecht describes clinging to a bridge amid a rivered city while others scaled roofs for safety. A. J. Bard and 150 others escaped a bank building by a makeshift cable line to the courthouse as fires forced desperate plans.
Terrible scenes in West Indianapolis report a morphine addicted physician left as the only available doctor for flood victims. A woman rescued from the bottoms gave premature birth to twins at the Methodist church. The doctor, driven by horror and drug withdrawal, attempted three times to jump from a window and was placed in a straight jacket.
Engineer Richard Lee reporting from Logansport described a ruinous scene at the Pennsylvania bridge over the Wabash near Logansport. He saw debris from Peru, including hundreds of wrecked houses, with thirty or forty bodies visible among crushed lumber. The bridge, near indestructible, spans an island and caught debris flowing from Peru eighteen miles upstream.
Travel salesman M S Scott and two others report boatmen in Peru Indiana charged five dollars to ferry flood victims across a river. He describes desperate conditions including six babies born overnight in a courthouse area and locals responding by giving rooms to the new arrivals.
Mrs Verna Wilkes of Plattsburg Mississippi credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring health and enabling a healthy baby after previous pregnancy loss. The ad argues feminine derangements cause infertility and promises confidential expert advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
The card club exchange humor centers on a wife whose lunch surpasses all others so far. A lighthearted joke circulates about domestic rivalries and culinary prowess within the social group.
A Boston Massachusetts advertisement from the United Shoe Machinery Co promotes fair terms for small and large shoe manufacturers. The copy argues uniform treatment across machines and factories, claiming this fosters competition and prosperity in small towns. It invites readers to write for more information.
The author argues personality grows by expanding central experience of the world. Intellectual achievements and moral victories enrich character, yet the suggested plan is to avoid cultivation and simply perform one's duty, allowing personality to develop naturally.
Naples sits on tu’g a soft volcanic rock easy to carve yet strong under heavy structures. It can receive nails easily and resists compression, allowing high walls and durable construction despite its softness.
A paradoxical exchange questions why certain claims seem groundless as one character notes the furors appear to vanish into thin air. The dialogue hinges on perception and credibility without naming specific events or figures.
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