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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1915
Page
6
Reports from the European war theater describe Prussia pressing toward Konigsberg and heavy fighting in Belgium and Poland. British and Belgian forces bombard the Belgian coast while Moroccan and Turkish actions unfold. In the U.S. Wilson opens a telephon e link between New York and San Francisco and new patent rulings surface as relief efforts for Belgium continue.
Jefferson City reports say Charles M. Hay leads Missouri drys opposing a caucus on wet and dry issues, urging merit based consideration of liquor bills while code revision measures gain support. Treasurer Deal explains report details and differences from advance sheets, noting revenue and expenditure changes. A plan to simplify court appeals is proposed by Judge Faris, aiming to curb automatic rights to appeal and speed docket. A legislative committee investigates capital office management, with partisan shifts in committee control and a pledge to publish findings.
A House committee in Jefferson City began inquiries into routine reports about the Missouri penitentiary. Officials deny aims to whitewash and vow to report any proven irregularities. The Senate sent its first engrossed bill on state funding and Phelps proposed rail car amenities in sports.
In July the body nearly all St. Louis and Kansas City men, except one, discuss a bill by Senator WS Allee to relieve social clubs from strict liquor laws. It would let clubs operate if they pay an annual Missouri state tax of $190.
Fragmentary note indicates a court hearing where parents may testify separately about alleged mistreatment or neglect of their child. Details on case type, location, or parties are unclear in the readable text.
Commissioner J T Mitchell of the state banking department explains that department expenses for 1911 12 totaled 76309 22, higher than Treas urer E P Deal's figure of 73693 56, and accounts for a 2615 discrepancy.
The Missouri Banking association named commission finished its work. It initially planned three measures on banks trust companies and the state banking department but now a single bill will embody all three propositions.
During the year steam railroads in Missouri killed 336 and injured 2,751 persons. Of these, 69 passengers died and 590 were injured, 69 employees killed and 1,837 injured, 173 trespassers killed and 197 injured, and 25 other persons killed with 127 injured.
Kentucky representative Damron introduces a bill to prohibit dramshop licensing within 200 feet of any dwelling. An exception requires written consent from the occupant before an applicant may operate near a residence.
The board of visitors to Missouri schools recommends to the legislature transferring the Rolla School of Mines to Columbia and granting general salary increases for professors at both institutions.
Senator Crossley of Johnson County introduces a bill to prohibit importation of strikebreakers and forbids private detectives or police action by anyone not employed by the state. The measure seeks to curb disturbances and pay legitimate claims, with related spending noted. Another item: Representative Bond proposes criminalizing owners who let dogs roam outside their premises and a dog bill targeting sheep.
Berlin reports a severe defeat of French and repulse of attacks in the Vosges and Upper Alsace as fighting rages from Asiatic Turkey to the English Channel. German losses and gains are contested, with 20,000 German casualties claimed on the first three days by French reports and 800 German deaths near Cronne cited by France. The piece notes troop movements toward Ypres and La Bassee and cites Russian hopes to soon aid Romania via a London loan. A hard fight near Sochaczew on the Bzura river sees German breaches into Russian trenches after bayonet charges, with 500 German deaths in a 30 minute clash near Socheczow.
President Wilson vetoed the immigration measure and sent a message to Congress opposing the literacy and other restrictive tests. He argues the bill imposes tests of opportunity rather than character or fitness and warns against reversing long standing American policy by arbitrary limits.
Chicago Jan 29 The American Association effectively became a major league after President Chivington announced the national commission had consented to the removal of the draft rule application.
Buffalo New York January 29 three hundred fishermen were in grave danger of being carried down the Niagara River as a severe ice jam and strong current threatened their safety.
Private Vienna advices report Emperor Franz Josef for peace. Berian von Rajech and a new foreign envoy view a ceasefire as a path to end the war.
Ward M. Snyder a widely known resident killed his wife in Houston Texas after hospitalizing his illness He was confined at a sanitarium when the violent act occurred authorities reported Snyder faces murder charges and the case draws statewide attention.
A dialogue between two scientists features one praising the latest observations while the other quips that without a scientist the first would have become a press agent. The exchange highlights wit about scientific communication.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a 10 cent remedy for bilious headaches and sick feeling caused by torpid liver and constipation. It claims the product cleanses the stomach removes sour undigested food and foul gases, relieves constipation, and purifies the blood overnight.
A fragment from a London scene shows a waiter shouting for Vienna steep while a patron complains Ur jokingly about renaming items Petrograd patties as tensions surface in an urban moment.
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