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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1922
Page
6
The article surveys postwar diplomacy with focus on US role in restraining France from seizing the Ruhr, Turkey's minority policy stance, and statements by Bonar Law on debt cancellation. It also notes crop values, potential bills on farm prices and reclamation, and various international incidents and deaths.
A tug named Reliance struck rocks off Lizzard Island in Lake Superior during a blizzard and sank. Of 36 aboard, 9 survivors, 14 crew and 22 passengers, are accounted. 27 missing with fears of drownings or exposure. Two cooks, Mr and Mrs Harten, were left to seek aid after harsh exposure.
Gabriel Narutowicz was shot and killed at the opening of an art exhibition in Warsaw. The assassin, identified as Niedwadomski or Niewadomski, claimed to be an artist and said he acted because he believed it to be best. The arrest followed at the scene amid political tensions.
Washington officials revealed billions in gold silver currency and securities stored in the United States treasury are in danger from fire and theft due to antiquated vaults. A secret committee meeting urged immediate construction of a one million dollar burglar and fireproof vault within the treasury led by chairman John W Langley and secret service chief William H Moran.
Intelligence reports a state of war in Tripoli between Italians and Arabs. Italy massing troops for an offensive against the natives as the conflict escalates.
London report states Germany turned over 60 million marks about 14 million dollars to the allied reparations commission as part of due payments. The sum is described as owing December 15, per a Central News dispatch from Paris.
The article surveys legendary long bow exploits from Virgil to Robin Hood and Blaise de Vigenere. It recounts archers striking ship masts and pigeons, shooting through cannonballs, and Florida Indians severing corn ears midair with arrows.
Dr Albert L Shelton and a Tibetan party crossed a swollen river near Draya using yaks driven into a line to wed the flood. Stones forced stragglers forward as current pressed back. The crossing occurred in August amid freezing water. all reached the opposite bank unharmed and continued towards Draya.
A reader recalls moving into an old house with soft wood stairs and hardwood railings, noting the builder’s choice. A neighbor interrupts with a sharp correction that hardwood was not used in the construction, highlighting a memory of the period.
An irate caller complains the land sold sight unseen was swampy. The dealer admits a mix up with a client named Blithersby and reveals his real name is Twobble, apologizing and suggesting the other Mr. Blithersby may be found.
A Birmingham Age Gerald quip unfolds about selling stock to Mr Twobble. The salesman confirms showing the stock and says the client claimed wealth in six months, then remarks the client was joking. The exchange poses whether the wealth claim was serious or satire.
Queen Alexandra favored Ess Bouquet perfume long used by the English royal family for about a century. The exact recipe has been kept secret by the manufacturers and passed down through generations.
The government of the Netherlands East Indies will substitute the metric system for weights and measures in retail trade replacing the existing avoirdupois system used in some areas.
Missouri reports include St Louis demand to dismiss a 7 cent fare extension request by United Railways, a bid to pave Old Trails road in Marshall, and a large Kingdom of Callaway Supper in Fulton with up to 600 attendees. Also noted are university dairy building funding, a county jail critique, and local political shifts affecting Missouri institutions.
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