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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1913
Page
6
World brief highlights include Senator Smith proposing to admit books to parcel post, calls for income tax amendment, and Works resolution for a single six year presidential term. Domestic items report drownings, moonshine convictions, oil finds near Kansas City, and several violent incidents with fatalities.
Both branches advance numerous measures as House members applaud two Jim Crow railroad bills. Cox and Mills push separate car and waiting room requirements with $500 penalties and fines for noncompliance. Conductor enforcement allowed. blacks face $10 to $50 fines for refusals. Streetcar provisions expected later. Additional bills cover state boards, apportionment, campaign reporting, and nonpartisan managers for eleemosynary institutions with a 91 to 45 vote.
A fragmented passage notes arguments for and against adoption, detailing state printing costs. It mentions the state printer and secretary of state distributing public documents at no extra cost to the state, with Ratofa introducing a bill related to funding or printing of these materials.
A St Louis representative introduces a bill re training couples to file a marriage license five days before tying their intentions. The measure aims to determine the house lineup on passage and whether liquor bills vary with prohibitions.
Representative Melvin of Schuyler proposes a $500 fine or jail for National Guard members absent from drill without orders. Kansas City lawmakers push two bills, one to require stools for Metropolitan Street Railway motormen and conductors, the other to create a sheriff's attorney post with $3,000 yearly salary. Secretary Roach appoints James J. McIntyre as corporation clerk and adds new clerks J. Sanders, G. G. Lamb, and C. C. Reddington in the motor car department.
The second day of the senate sessions focused on quail matters. A bill by Senator Wilson of Platte to prohibit killing quail for three years starting November 1, 1913, was approved 20 to 12 after debate.
Senate committee reports favorable action on a bill raising marshal and county official fees for feeding prisoners from fifty to seventy five cents per day. Letters from several county officials complain prison costs have increased greatly in recent years.
Clark Senator Cates proposes a state wide dramshop tax on liquor licensees. Each keeper would pay 400 dollars annually to fund public roads, with an estimated annual revenue of 600000 dollars. He introduced the measure in the Senate as a license charge.
A House committee of eleemosynary institutions reported adversely a bill proposed by the American Protective Association. The measure would require county courts to inspect every convent and monastery within the state quarterly, raising concerns over religious liberty and government intrusion.
The house passed a docket with two dissenting votes and approved a contempt resolution directing the board of fund commissioners to pay commissions for the sale of capital building bonds. The criminal jurisprudence committee killed the Haskin bill prohibiting baseball.
Senator Brogan introduces a bill to set ventilation standards for shops and factories requiring at least five hundred cubic feet of air per worker and to address crowded shops with inadequate ventilation. A separate bill by Senator Gardiner targets bank cashiers liable for losses from criminal acts as directors review accounts.
Representative Hicks introduces a bill to raise deputy marshals and sheriffs outside the courthouse by 25 a week to cover car fare. The joint house senate committees report favorably on the Enabling Act paving the way for Joplin and Springfield to adopt commission government. Senate debates extend to lecture plans by Hugh Lé Cooper of Keokuk and include a $10,000 monument appropriation for General Shields.
Dr Austin B Heid, a Pittsburgh physician, reached New York aboard the Potsdam with a serum claimed as the Friedmann culture for tuberculosis. Heid said the dose is enough for one patient, Doctor Held, who meets quarantine officials in New York. The visit follows financier Charles E Finlay offering one million dollars to prove the cure in most cases.
Fragmentary wires describe an official report on a Berlin doctor Frederich Friedmann claiming a tuberculosis cure. The document was to be printed by the government printing office, with details still unclear and awaiting release.
Government investigates possible violations of the Standard Oil decree as it reviews whether former subsidiaries acted to cause the oil price surge. Regulators examine the trusts control over stocks and tank inventories to assess impact on smaller rivals.
A Brooklyn Williamsburg strike in New York drew mobs firing a device described as an infernal machine. Two special policemen guarding a shop were severely injured by thrown iron and scrap metal as panic spread among workers.
Fragmentary OCR notes record the passage of a constitutional amendment to permit women to vote. The text cites a House vote and references a measure labeled 431 to W, reflecting a legislative approval event.
A jury in St Louis is deliberating in the Monarchs case tied to a river towboat named Sahk With Five. Five men and two women, described as white, sit in the jury room as the panel weighs charges and potential verdict amid unclear testimony.
An aged country couple visiting a city grandson's family struggle with a single remaining tooth and a pickled onion. The grandfather explains he cannot chew the meal, promising to swallow after resting a spell and using a host on it. The scene reveals a humorous domestic moment at the dinner table.
Washington newspaper man Brow Brownlow paused in a Greensboro drug store when a wounded young Black man rushed in. The stranger told Brownlow a friend struck him with a hatchet in what he described as an accident, while a deep scalp gash drew urgent questions about what happened.
A folk tip explains that popping corn should be rinsed in cold water in a sieve before popping to make kernels pop quickly and yield larger lighter and flakier pieces.
A patient asks for advice about recurring boils and a doctor replies with a pun about not letting those that are off trouble him. The exchange uses light medical humor to turn a clinical problem into a light moment.
Fragmentary lines show a tense exchange about vaudeville gate controls and a firm hook or constraint. The readable text hints at a clash over access and censorship but provides few concrete details or names.
A patient writes that long time coffee drinking worsened her spinal and nervous troubles. She credits Postum as the turning point after years of doctors and doubt, saying she can now perform many tasks she feared lost.
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