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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1906
Page
2
A fragment notes a pearl necklace once valued at 1,250,000 in the Louvre tied to the Thiers family. The pearls are aging and will become worthless in a few years. The piece oddly references a French journalist's joke about a younger Duma in Russia and mentions Missouri.
The buyer endures three year waits for a freshet to float logs. Disturbances in the district push laborers to flee the job to avoid being impressed by government or revolutionists.
J Pierpont Morgan’s close circle says he appears younger than a decade ago and that his travels refresh his body and mind. He recently remarked he can accomplish a year’s work in nine months, but cannot fit twelve months of work in a single year.
During a conference with the chiefs and 3000 Sekukuniland tribesmen Sir Godfrey Lagden, chief native commissioner of the Transvaal, argued that government good intentions are shown by a drop in the price of a wife from ten dollars to 3.25. The chiefs pledged loyalty to King Edward.
The text urges joining industry peers and aligning with top professionals. It advocates socializing with colleagues, associating with leading practitioners, and joining professional clubs to build reputation. A strong standing in one’s craft is portrayed as highly valuable for success.
A group of Chinese boycott leaders who faced imprisonment last year were freed and hailed by a large crowd in Canton. A magistrate hosted a luncheon in their honor, underscoring how boycott organizers were celebrated as drivers of anti-Chinese agitation in early San Francisco days.
Two war vessels, one Canadian and one American, began in October setting buoys along the boundary at five mile intervals in Lake Erie. Fishermen can now tell if they are in home waters or foreign territory when fishing for whales or minnows.
The United Kingdom’s population grew by 2,000,000 over six years, yet beer consumption declined by nearly 2,500,000 barrels and utilization of eotrite also fell. Tea imports reached 155,767,710 pounds for home consumption in the first seven months of 1906, up 10,000,000 from 1905.
Mr Birrell, head of the board of education, announced in the house of commons that under restrictions young pupils may be taught to shoot at miniature ranges. The instruction will be funded from public money.
The country hosts the world’s biggest duck farm and incubator, rated to hold 11 446 ducks or 14 80 hens eggs. The unit is a pine framed hothouse with a corrugated iron roof built on open ground. Each trench accommodates 130 ducks or 160 hens eggs, with four trays per tier and 11 tiers per side, totaling 38 trays.
A brief Home Notes reflection urges focusing on others' good and strong qualities. It counsels honoring those strengths, rejoicing in them, and striving to imitate them to let personal faults fall away with time.
A reflective note urges calm as worry harms progress and compares repairing a bridge to stopping to pick wildflowers. The speaker stresses taking it easy while acknowledging worry’s slow, insidious damage.
Wycoff Wright a Wichita street car conductor released by order of the coroner after a verdict of justifiable homicide. Telegraph operator Mattox denies fault in the Southern railway wreck. Carl Schurz inheritance totals 255150 dollars. Tillman speaks in Chicago amid threats from locals. Chief Justice Wiswell dies in Boston. Taft elected Red Cross president. Keep named treasurer. Mrs. Greer dies at 50. St. John dies of apoplexy in Oklahoma City. Kansas legislative budget tallies 6177693 dollars for state running expenses. Gulf Pipe Line charter filed to build a 600 mile oil pipeline to Port Arthur. A mob burns two tobacco factories in Princeton. Queen Alexandra’s birthday celebrated at Sandringham. Oklahoma constitution may bar natural gas piping outside state. Reward offered for Dilworth murder. Kansas crop report issued. wheat 93292980 bushels. Sumner county leads in wheat. ICC investigates land frauds in Pueblo. Robber captured after Dilworth shooting. Dreadnaught keel plates laid at Portsmouth. King Menelik illness rumors denied. William Walter Webb appointed bishop in Milwaukee. Clements reappointed to ICC. Illinois Central through trains can skip small Mississippi stations. Forty men die in a Houghton Michigan mine explosion. Eastern Arizona floods drown and wreck. Eight women burned in Indianapolis match factory fire. Battleship Kansas trials on New England coast. Senators vote for constitutional convention on direct election. Japan problem solution proposed via treaty to exclude laborers. Zona Heckert robbed at Desoto. Burlington Chicago freight house fire causes 300000 dollar loss. American Association of State Fairs elects officers. Garland Moore surrenders after murder. Dowle mind denial from Chicago friends. Philadelphia sues contractors for delay in railroad express incident.
The president has sent the nomination of W. Morgan Shuster of Washington to the senate for the Philippine commission and public instruction. Other items note a Los Angeles Panama Canal exhibition bill, debates over Japanese school exclusion in San Francisco, and Roosevelt's annual message readings.
A detachment of Company L Eighth Infantry with coast guard under Lieut Ralph P Yates was attacked by about 60 Pulajanes four miles from La Pas on December 5. Five Americans were killed and nine wounded, the enemy reportedly had 30 killed. Six Americans were wounded. Lieut Yates is reported seriously wounded.
A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returns indictments against Union Pacific Railroad Oregon Short Line Railroad Union Pacific Coal Company Winn Fuel and high officials of the Harriman and Gould groups. Bench warrants issue and jury adjourns to January as inquiries into a long running fraud system widen in Utah and Wyoming.
Washington lawmakers debated a bill to establish a national supervised game preserve in the Olympic forest reserve. The measure passed without division as supporters argued federal protection for the elk herd while critics cited state sovereignty over birds game and fishes.
El Paso reports steel magnate C. M. Schwab, returning from Mexico, confirming ownership of the San Toy mine in the Santa Eurnalia district. He says a Mexican capitalist has sold him a group of silver properties in the same district. The properties will be merged into the San Toy Mining Corporation, poised to be the largest company in Mexico.
The San Francisco Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Sloss with the court concurring, held that the McEnery act passed in the last session is constitutional and that property owners may establish title to lands whose records were destroyed.
Peoria Illinois Atlas distillery owned by American Spirits Manufacturing opened Friday to produce denatured alcohol at full capacity of 8 000 bushels per day.
In Washington the House committee on proprieties rejects simplified spelling for government printing. The action directs that all documents authorized by law or ordered by Congress be printed using Webster’s orthography. Affected appropriation totals $31,315,526.
The 45th annual Missouri State Teachers Association gathering in Moberly December 27 28 and 29 will feature department sessions in multiple churches and high school rooms with Mayor Rothwell welcoming delegates Thursday. The Missouri State University proposes a University Medical College in Kansas City if a site and facilities are provided.
The Southwest Missouri Teachers association ends a three day session in Nevada with lectures by State Superintendent Carrington on Faxation and Teachers Salaries and W J Hawkins on The Course of Study for the Child Not the Child for the Course of Study. Springfield is named for the next meeting and officers are elected including Arthur Lee Glinton president H T Blaine first vice president Miss Bessie Duffy Pierce City second vice president F C Thompson Webb City secretary W H Bishop Neosho treasurer Miss Lizzie White Nevada recording secretary W A Doggett Springfield. In elocution for a gold medal the judges award Miss Guffin Aurora over Guy Randall Joplin.
Joplin faced a delayed Thanksgiving as a gas main break halted almost all cooking. By noon 30,000 residents were hungry while Altamont Kansas reported suspension of service. Early risers ate minimally while by 7am the gas was nearly useless and hotels cafes and bakeries ran out of supplies.
Capt Frazer US Army commandant of the University Cadet corps spent days in Jefferson City with Gov Folk discussing a bill to be introduced in January aimed at boosting attendance at the state university at Columbia. Current law grants each state senator and representative one cadet. the proposed bill would greatly increase the number of cadetships.
Attorney Clarence Spellman for eight creditors asks U.S. Circuit Court in Kansas City to appoint a receiver for the city light water and power utility of Nevada. The filing seeks to set aside a transfer from Missouri Water Light and Traction to Union Water Light and Traction of Illinois, alleging the Illinois firm operates as a tramp without Missouri license.
Miss Rachel McGuffin of Aurora wins the young woman's prize of a gold watch. A Jackson County farmer, J. H. Moree near Lone Jack, was shot in the forehead recently but expected to recover. The incident occurred when Mortis opened a barn door early morning and a shot rang out.
The text says Missouri voters will decide next election whether to join Maine Iowa and Kansas to adopt prohibition. The Anti Saloon League plans a constitutional amendment proposal to make Missouri a prohibition state after the session begins. A circular letter to legislators asks their stance and invites support for the measure.
Hadley as attorney general informs the board that under the law it has full power to establish free delivery limits in cities for express companies and to extend them as needed and to fix charges for deliveries beyond those limits.
To benefit farmers boys an eight weeks course in agriculture is organized for January and February. The program aims to help those without time or funds for a full agricultural college course. Three courses will be offered plant propagation animal husbandry and dairying.
Gov Folk ordered commissions for the St Charles Military Academy cadet corps. O G Jones and Charles E Wright were named second lieutenants in Companies G and E. E H Shuey becomes lieutenant colonel while H L Buemer and J E Mort are majors.
In a story recounted by Senator West, Champ Clark relays Senator Vest's rebuke to a St. Charles tavern keeper who handed him weak coffee. Vest quips that he could swallow a coffee bean and swim the Missouri River to Alton, Illinois, to prove better coffee along the route.
The executive committee of the Missouri Association of Assessors met at the courthouse in Jefferson City. They prepared a draft law for a uniform assessment of all taxable property classes to be presented to the next General Assembly.
William Brown, a Black night train caller for the Missouri Pacific, was run over and killed in the Jefferson City yard by a switch engine after leaving the trainmaster's office to call a crew. He reportedly stepped onto the wrong track, possibly due to confusion, right before the engine.
R. L. Chappell of Windsor in Henry county pledges eight thousand dollars to establish a Methodist sanitarium in Windsor. The proposal was part of a recent election and the text notes voters across the state receiving ballots.
Mrs. Margaret Emmerich of Clinton Street Napoleon says she suffered ten years from kidney troubles with back pain eyesight dizziness and extreme fatigue. After using Doan's Kidney Pills her condition improved quickly and she claims they cured her, saving her life. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
An excerpt from an early century etiquette guide praises daily soap washing for clear complexions and notes a shift to regular baths. It cites a sharp counterpoint about ancestral ablutions and warns that bath guidance applies only to those in sound health.
Avard Oklahoma store owner A C Barnett writes how his son’s severe eczema on the scalp healed after two bottles of Cuticura Resolvent and daily use of Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Hair regrew and skin remained soft. Dated March 30 1905.
City council acts over rising desertions linking mortgage loan sharks. An ordinance requires both spouses to sign mortgages on furniture, aiming to curb runaway husbands and protect wives.
Mayor Stoy of Atlantic City describes the cosmopolitan resort as diverse with visitors from many nationalities. He recounts a Pasteur Institute physician’s tale of an Indian chief named War Eagle seeking hydrophobia treatment after suspecting a dangerous black poodle served in a ragout last Friday afternoon.
A historical note recalls the old practice of New Year calls beginning with a century ago, when boys overindulged and adults sought charity. Ladies pursued charity and gentlemen kept a measured stance, aiming to avoid excess in social visits and beverages.
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