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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1921
Page
2
Reports say Jugo Slavia mobilizes against Hungary as Budapest fears demands on Funt kirchen. Allies debate protecting Constantinople and Madania. U.S. seeks end to war with Germany by congressional resolution. Panama mobilizes troops amid boundary tensions with Costa Rica. German reparation memoranda released.
Washington delivers a firm note to Britain Japan France and Italy asserting U S participation in the Germany victory grants rights to overseas possessions. It demands withdrawal of the Yap mandate and states no consent was given by the United States to the allocation.
Gen. Manuel Pelaez former Tampico federal commander will depart Tampico next week for the United States England and France. He will go to Washington to confer with President Harding on the Mexican situation including petroleum matters. Reports say the talks were requested by the president.
London reports reveal a Sinn Fein plot timed with the coal strike opening. Scotland Yard says evidence shows leaders planned a grand revolution around April 16 as negotiations stretched.
Washington reports resumption of postal service between Great Britain and Russia under the new trade accord. Telegrams travel at the sender's risk and are sent at the sender's risk.
See Smaller Corn Acreage Washington. Reduction in corn acreage was forecast in several leading producing states in reports to authorities.
The article recalls the Philadelphia and Columbus railway era when state owned the roadway and travelers supplied vehicles. It cites 19th century rules on loads, speed limits, and signaling requiring conductors to manage switches to allow faster engines to pass. It notes the clash between horse drawn and locomotive power on shared tracks.
A father and son near Indianapolis share adjoining tomato fields. The son rigs a ripe tomato to fool his father who notices ripe fruit and remarks on it, while the father's crop remains unripe. The prank ends with the father conceding, saying you best me this time.
More than twenty three thousand blinded soldiers were discharged from the British army after WWI. St Dunstan's Hostel for Blinded Soldiers and Sailors has spent five years rehabilitating them. Men learn massage farming basket making joinery music and typing. St Dunstan's trained stenographers telephones and Braille reading machines aid employment in London and colonies worldwide.
In a chamber of deputies discussion on agriculture estimates, two deputies warned of ongoing damage from wild boars and wolves in France while a third defended the animals, suggesting a few might be kept. Boar hunting was popular before the war and boar steaks appeared in restaurants, with a few boars reaching kitchens last Christmas.
A Richmond Times Dispatch snippet shows a child proudly declaring 70 cents saved for the Fourth of July. An adult responds with playful caution about saving the money and making noise when fireworks arrive.
A state audit of Missouri's Jefferson City penitentiary shows noncompliance with the act abolishing the contract system. Oberman Manufacturing and Central Broom Co supplied materials and products, with 1920 output totaling 15,000 dozen workwear suits and related goods worth $185,881. The prison posted self support with earnings exceeding expenditures, and management is praised though last biennial expenditures reached $12,245,204 including a $428,454 carryover from 1918.
Jefferson City Missouri statistics prepared for the Missouri Red Book by A T Edmonston place state eligible female voters at about 849 981 based on 1920 census and last November election returns The estimate may be revised and about 90 percent of eligible women cast their first ballot Census data show 944 021 Missouri women over 21 years old
The Public Service Commission approved a rate hike for Laclede Gas Light Co of St Louis raising charges for 1000 cubic feet from 85, 60 and 50 cents to 1.05, 95 and 85 cents. The plan shows a 7.76 percent return on a tentative $30 million valuation.
Missouri Attorney General Barrett will have a $35,000 fund to hire outside counsel for a proposed investigation of alleged illegal practices in the building materials business in St. Louis once Governor Hyde signs the contingent appropriation bill approved by the Legislature.
Eldon residents receive letter from son Raymond in California noting Missouri Club of Los Angeles interest in Homecoming Week during Centennial Jubilee year. He cites about 50 000 Missourians enrolled in the club and 30 000 Missourians living in California.
Sedalia Missouri police arrested 19 year old Jack Norman, a white boy from Newcastle Texas, after he confessed to being one of two burglars who attempted to break into Waldman clothing store and were spotted by Officer Voyles who fired several shots. The other suspect remained at large.
The Columbia Co- Operative Shipping Association has been formed in Columbia Missouri with officers elected: President I N Russell vice president Dorsey Green secretary and treasurer E R Spence directors George Cason Ben Williams J E Hudson and W W Fortney manager Gentry Clark.
Sedalia Missouri reports that a grand jury was selected at the request of Prosecuting Attorney Lamm to investigate the crime situation in Pettis County.
The Weather Bureau will broadcast Missouri and Illinois forecasts by radio at 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. daily starting April 15 from the University of St Louis wireless station. Reports of Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois river stages will also be aired. The service, coordinated with Montrose Hayes, will be free to the public and invites local groups to cooperate in distribution.
Missouri births for 1920 totaled 65 416 while deaths were 43 572, a net gain of 22 844. Pneumonia led deaths with 5 725, heart disease 4 113, tuberculosis 3 592, cancer 2 540, circulatory diseases 2 296, nephritis 3 020, and other causes fill the rest. There were 883 personal crisis deaths with 100 by poison and 158 by firearms.
U S District Judge Van Valkenburg granted a temporary restraining order against the State Public Service Commission enforcing a rate on the Webb City and Carterville Water Company. He also declared himself in favor of the commission as a rate making body. The ruling sparked debate among attorneys and utility men amid legislative battles to cut or repeal the commission’s funding.
In Miller County near Mary's Home Elzie Rush, 17, was stabbed to death after a quarrel with Virgil Atwell, 17, a school teacher, who is charged with second degree murder. Rush left with his brother Archie Rush and Will Winters, and twenty minutes later they met Atwell. Lilzie Rush died almost immediately.
Springfield Missouri reports a booming tourist outlook for the Ozarks during the hot months. The Frisco Railroad traffic department says it has received more inquiries from prospective tourists than ever before in its history.
Jefferson City reports Gov. Hyde likely to approve the boxing bill after Attorney General Barrett stated the act is valid and does not repeal the current prize fighting prohibition. The Legislature had just passed the measure.
William B. Emerson 49, supreme counsellor of the United Commercial Travelers of America and Canada, died at a social hospital from complications. He was born in Michigan and moved to Columbus in 1919 from Des Moines Iowa.
Miss Ethel Vaughn deputy circuit clerk of Dent County died suddenly at her Salem home. She was 24 and had served as deputy clerk for two years. The Vaughn family is prominent in the area with her father having been a surveyor.
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