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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1910
Page
3
Snail refuses to delay as a hurried turtle races to reach home before dark, noting it's nearly midnight. The brief dialogue captures a tense moment of urgency and miscommunication.
A multimillionaire questions a nobleman about supporting his daughter in a dignified lifestyle. The nobleman agrees to a one year test to observe how she is accustomed. James the footman suddenly frees a $5,000 bulldog during the scene.
The Newfoundland Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis conducts a vigorous campaign as the island faces a high death rate from tuberculosis. About one in five people die from the disease, and in six years the rate rose by about 50 percent, driven by a reluctance to embrace fresh air in the home.
A testimonial notes heart trouble from coffee but improves after quitting coffee and using Postum. The speaker confirms quick relief after switching and cites friends who also abandoned old fashioned coffee for Postum though some say it is weak unless boiled.
Invitations to Missouri country editors for editors week in Columbia prompt debate over government mail envelopes and a congressional push to end non profit stationery. A Missouri labor bureau report argues federal river improvement, levee building, and cooperation with landowners would reduce floods, boost transportation, and attract growth along navigable rivers.
A banquet honored Missouri Grand Master William A Hall and Grand Lecturer J R McLachlin of St Louis after installation work at the Masonic temple by Springfield lodges Solomon 271 Gate of the Temple 442 and United 5. Over 200 members and visitors attended. Several candidates were initiated as Master Masons under the grand lodge officers.
Miss Maud Stephens of Liberty secretly wed Mr. Earl Eubank in Japan after leaving Liberty a month ago. She sent letters from Nebraska to mislead friends, stayed briefly, then went to Seattle and boarded a steamer to Japan where the marriage occurred the same day.
At a Joplin Commercial Club traffic committee meeting Secretary H A Fortner failed to prove accusations that committee members hid advantageous freight rate information. It was shown reports existed and no private or secret rates were disclosed.
Mrs Lalla Partney serves as a deputy United States marshal in Kansas City after being sworn in. She is described as a full fledged deputy able to carry a revolver and make arrests within legal bounds.
The Missouri Branch of the Woman's Board of Home Missions for the Interior held its thirty ninth annual session at the First Congregational church in Springfield. The twenty sixth annual session of the Women's Home Missionary Union of Missouri also met there.
At a mass meeting in Forsythe Taney county Democrats endorsed ex Governor Folk as the national standard bearer of the Democratic party for 1912.
William H. Philpott, aged about 65, was found guilty of second degree murder for killing John Shellhorne, 35, with a butcher knife on Christmas Day in Chillicothe. The jury fixed his punishment at ten years in the penitentiary.
Edmond P. Creecy, the police chief, was removed from office by the police board after being found guilty on five of eight charges. The dismissal ends his tenure amid a formal tribunal and a board vote.
President Taft appoints E. E. E. McJimpsey, editor of the Springfield Republican, to the position of postmaster at Springfield.
Mrs Marcellus Holbrook of Springfield died aboard a train in Arizona while traveling with her husband toward California and the Hawaiian Islands.
Practically every city in the middle west is represented at Langdon by one or more sportsmen. Large parties came in from Omaha and Kansas City. Fishing is reported better than for several years past. Black bass, crap pie breame and pike are biting, with several large catches noted by Col. James Stone of the Langdon hotel. William Blackmar of Council Bluffs holds the record with a five pound six ounce black bass.
The state has extensive navigable waterways with the Mississippi forming the eastern boundary and the Missouri river crossing the state. The Osage and Gasconade rivers support steamboat traffic in parts, totaling about 1,500 miles of navigable channels worth congressional and legislative recognition.
Mrs M J Stephens a Northeast Missouri pioneer dies of pneumonia in Montgomery. Born in Missouri before statehood in 1820 her father an early Baptist preacher came from Kentucky in 1819. She leaves five children three sons two daughters survivors noted.
Capt William McIlwrath age 76 was found dead in his bed at the Henrietta hotel in Chillicothe. Dropsy caused his death. A Belfast native, he enlisted in 1862 in Col Guitar’s Ninth Cavalry and served until muster out. He served as provost marshal in Paris and Chillicothe and led business in Chillicothe since 1865. He leaves a wife and one daughter. He was elected president of the board of control for the state industrial home for families in Chillicothe by Gov. Francis, serving seven years.
Dr John L Corlew of Columbia dies at his home. He was a University of Missouri medical graduate who completed his degree in 1891 and later earned a medical degree from Keokuk College of Medicine in Iowa.
Statewide petitions will seek a three cent per hundred tax levy for the University of Missouri including the Agricultural College and School of Mines. The measure would replace ordinary legislative appropriations for university maintenance.
A stout man recounts last night’s events on a street car with heavy German American English quips. His companion teases him as the tale spirals into misheard phrases and comic mispronunciations about a doctor, a door rap, and calling people odd names.
A woman details seven years of itching from knee to toe with failed medical care and costly hospital visits. After trying many medicines she used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills and was cured, urging others with similar issues to try the remedies. August 20 1909.
A conversation recounts instant love as a man seen on a Long Beach beach elicits praise from a father who declares him a man worth ten millions. The piece appears in the New York Weekly.
There is more Catarrh in this region than all other diseases and it was long deemed incurable. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo claims to cure constitutionally, with 10 drops to a teaspoonful altering blood and mucous surfaces. They offer $100 for any uncured case. Sold by Druggista at 75 cents. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A compact, period tone note compares truing balance wheels to quality cigars and likens grass widows to fresh hay. It presents a series of proverbial lines without a single event or clear modern news item. The piece pairs a mechanical half joke with a light social quip.
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