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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1913
Page
2
A compact weekly roundup from around the world highlights notable events and items of interest for readers. This period brief surveys varied happenings, offering a quick snapshot of global developments without in-depth coverage.
President Wilson's anti trust bill push stalls at White House with six Democratic House Judiciary Committee members tasked to draft administration bills. Floods in Texas stretch relief efforts and moral sentiment across federal action while crime, rail, and oil incidents punctuate a day of national concerns.
Eighty young farmers from thirty states arrive as guests of the Department of Agriculture in Washington. The group includes both boys and girls honored for corn potato and vegetable garden achievements. The trip marks the first inclusion of girls among the Washington champions.
After weeks of inquiry across the United States officials of the Department of Justice conclude there is little ground for belief in a nationwide cold storage trust. U S attorneys surveyed the field and reports show some city combines exist but no single trust controls egg and product prices nationwide.
About 1500 to 2000 Yaqui Indians have joined the Constitutionalists at Maytorena above Guaymas. The rebels, prompted by three chiefs, will aid in campaigns against Guaymas and Mazatlan, the northwest coast stronghold still held by the federal government.
Report from Juarez by new arrivals from Chihuahua says rebels occupying the city entered the British vice consulate and seized Luis Terrazas Jr., son of a wealthy landowner, parading him through streets and jailing him. Rebels also ordered about 100 Spanish residents to leave within ten hours.
In St Louis a violent riot erupted during a clash between police protecting strike breakers and hundreds of garment workers. The confrontation occurred in the business district as stones bottles and clubs flew in a chaotic street battle.
Gen Francisco Villa seizes Chihuahua capital after federal defeat while refugees stream from the desert to Ojinaga across the border. Huerta family members flee to Vera Cruz. marines would protect foreigners if Mexico City is endangered. Swedish steamer Malmberget sinks near Bodo. Montgomery Ward dies at 70.
In Washington the House erupted as prohibition supporters crowded galleries cheered and shouted while Representative Richmond Pearson Hobson of Alabama urged a resolution to submit a constitutional prohibition amendment to the states.
E C DeBruton a Milwaukee shoe dealer was fined 25 dollars in federal court for mailing a receipted bill for shoes in a dummy parcel marked COD 4 50 alleging due on footwear purchase. The case centered on violating postal laws.
Five people were injured in Aberdeen Mississippi when a drunken Black man climbed onto a locomotive and pulled the throttle open. The engine collided with an adjacent accommodation train about three hundred yards away, narrowly avoiding a mob fatality.
In Chicago the income tax suit by Hissé De Wolf was dismissed by Judge Landis who ruled the United States District Court lacked jurisdiction.
All saloons gone in Macon as county and First Congressional District vote dry by wide margins. The town, once wet four years ago, ended with a 26 vote majority and the county seat now dry. Women mobilized, bells tolled, and Judge Hess led the anti saloon effort through long, tense hours.
Webster Groves near St. Louis voted to remain dry by a 999 to 227 margin. Prohibitory licenses have kept saloons out for seventeen years at $5,000 yearly. Rumors of a saloon man backed by St. Louis brewers spurred a local option campaign.
Doctor Dixon of Holliday in Monroe county reports nine acres of oats fourteen inches high and heading out. Planted last April and mowed in July. Ground then seeded to a cane crop harvested in October. The second oat crop is growing and could be cut in two weeks if conditions hold.
Fifty mules were driven into Warrensburg streets during the monthly Commercial Club sale and sold to the highest bidder. A Georgia buyer paid $197.50 per mule, as the auctioneer had attempted to reach $10,000 for the lot, and the total proceeds exceeded $40,000 with buyers from several Southern points seeking cotton mules.
Judge David H. Harris of Fulton directs circuit clerks to provide newspaper reporters with all divorce petitions in the Thirty fourth judicial circuit. The edict aims to inform readers and ensure open notice of filed divorces.
Bandits dynamited the agent's office safe at Purdy Frisco station and escaped with the day's receipts and many railroad tickets. Mail pouches and express packages were cut open in the overnight raid.
Scores of farmers arrived in Neosho to enforce a city order removing hitching racks. They retrieved discarded posts, some guard duty was kept, and the racks were reinstalled around the courthouse square.
J Sam Brown a former national bank examiner died recently at Vernon Sanitarium following an operation He was born in Montgomery county in 1841 and spent many years in Pike county Known nationwide as a financier and public figure
The Rev. L. H. Vandiver dies at Fayette at age 83. He was born in Hardy County Virginia and was father of Willard D. Vandiver, assistant United States treasurer.
John Van Brunt manager of the R. A. Long stock farm in Jackson county bought fifteen bushels of Gone-County White prize winning seed corn from William Albers Pettis county farmer at three dollars a bushel.
After a decade long battle the Ray County vote favored a $100000 bond for a new courthouse. The campaign spanned ten years with previous defeats marking the struggle and the final tally reached 2399 to 689 in favor.
Phoebe Couzins died in St. Louis at age 72 after a long illness. She was the United States’ first woman lawyer and the first woman to serve as deputy marshal. Once a Washington society leading light, she faced poverty and declined assistance amid a life of controversy and romance.
Susana Ross, convicted in Fulton circuit court of murdering her husband and sentenced to ten years, is granted a new trial by Judge David Harris set for February 2. The judge cited radical differences between defense attorneys as evidence of an unfair hearing. One attorney argued insanity. the other suggested another person may have committed the crime. One attorney has withdrawn and insanity will be the defense at the next trial.
A two day convention of the Missouri Horticultural Society and Missouri board of horticulture met in Springfield. Officers elected include T. C. Wilson president H S Wayman vice president W T Flournoy treasurer and Paul Evans secretary. John Bland was re elected secretary of the board. luncheon with Springfield Young Men's Business Club marked the event. next year’s meeting location left to the executive committee.
Theodore L. Cannon of St. Louis urged creating a public subscription fund to educate rural boys and girls lacking means at the state grange convention. He donated to the fund, and contributions followed from every delegate present.
The Macon county grand jury adjourned after a 30 day session eight days spent on tax dodging cases. It returned no indictments but issued a lengthy report detailing its method to improve assessments. Over $200,000 in increased valuations were turned in as a direct result of the jury's work.
At a Pettis County Women’s Christian Temperance Union meeting a resolution was passed directing a protest letter to the St. Louis branch against erecting a monument to Adolphus Busch the brewer in a public park.
A man’s body was found hanging by the head on the cowcatcher of the Meteor engine after it arrived from St Louis. The engineer said he struck a horse four miles east of Springfield and did not know a man had been aboard.
A new hospital in Mexico was dedicated recently marking the first hospital there since the Chicago and Alton moved its division headquarters away thirty years ago. Funds for establishing the hospital were raised by public subscription.
Seven year old Theodore Keech suffered the loss of an eye and his left hand when a dynamite cap exploded in his pocket during a spring play activity. He was scratching the cap when it exploded.
In Joplin a $280,000 school bond measure for a new high school was rejected by 750 votes. The election drew about 2,000 votes, the largest total ever cast on a Joplin school proposition.
George B. McClellan recalls a Thanksgiving scene in Atlantic City. He describes a quarrel outside a cafe where a man pushes a woman, she falls, and a bystander woman yells about sacrificing her day off to pay for his freedom from work.
Walter Mahony of Sparta Wisconsin describes a two year struggle with scaly psoriasis on arms and legs. He credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment with complete cure after three months and says he tried other treatments before.
A dialogue features Crabshaw challenging judgments based on appearance, with Judge remarking that society judges women by looks while men escape scrutiny, prompting reflection on biases.
An admiring friend claims Freddie has a fortune and that the impression comes from a campaign cigar he received. The remark suggests disbelief at Freddie’s apparent wealth and admiration for his influence.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup for teething, claiming it softens gums eases pain reduces drooling and cures wind colic with a soothing formula. The fragment mentions teething relief and infant comfort.
A hopeful suitor proposes during a canoe ride but faces two potential outcomes: she may accept the proposal or reject it, ending the moment with an uncertain future for their relationship.
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