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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1917
Page
3
Washington reports war college plans for a national volunteer force led by experienced officers. Provisions cover enlistment, recruitment depots, training, and selection order from regular army veterans to educated civilians, with governors notified and state rendezvous prepared for rapid mobilization.
The Arizona is the largest U S battle ship, exceeding the Pennsylvania by 200 tons with twelve 14 inch guns delivering a 20 000 pound broadside. Its displacement tops 31 600 tons and it travels at about 20 knots powered by oil burning engines.
John M Little, an Englishman, pleads for word on his wife and four children aboard the liner Californ ia sunk in Germanys submarine campaign. Officials say wife and one child missing while others saved. Little asks for hope as tears mark the moment.
A Missouri bulletin shows 954 of 193,803 immigrants in the six months ending December 31 landed in Missouri. Italians from southern Italy led arrivals, English aliens numbered about 100, with Greeks 165 and Hebrews 53 among others. December 1916 saw 155 direct immigrants to Missouri with little backflow to homeland.
State Treasurer George H Middel kamp announces bids will be received February 26 for deposits of daily balances not awarded February 1. Bids over 3% were rejected with an average 3.76% for four years, vs 3.79% prior. Bank of Ellington led bids. country banks offered higher rates. Senate also confirmed several recess appointments to state boards, with a salary of 11000 per year for the seat of government commissioner to succeed John Scott, who seeks reappointment.
A Missouri Senate subcommittee drafts changes to the Buford bill affecting workers compensation and auto license fees. Light cars 12 to 24 hp would pay $6 annually, up from $3, while 36 to 48 hp rises to $8, 48 to 60 hp to $12, and cars over 72 hp face higher charges as lawmakers seek equity between labor and capital.
The Missouri senate delays pass and adjourns with over half the session gone. Committees report 229 bills in 1917 versus 340 in 1915. engrossed 95 bills in 1917 versus 114 in 1915. No senate bills passed yet this year, while 1915 had 20 laws by this point. About 1,300 bills introduced. local measures expected. tax commission engrossed in the house. Stormy sessions ahead over penitentiary bills. convict leasing system likely dead.
The state game department operates at no cost to taxpayers with surpluses for two years. In 1916 receipts totaled 71 526 81 dollars from licenses and fees, while expenses were 50 578 75 dollars. A separate Missouri penitentiary election elected nine convict delegates for an honor system, listing offenses and sentences for each.
A three-way fight over the coal oil inspector post centers on John A. Knott who currently holds the job. Omar D. Gray, tied to Gov. Gardner’s primary campaign, is said to have been placated by an offer of the post. Hamp Rothwell pursued the position but was largely rebuffed, while Senator James A. Reed backs Knott. Separately, Carlotta Campus Girl, a four year old Holstein from the University of Missouri herd, posted a top 24 hour milk total of 99.9 pounds, second only to her grand dam’s 110.2 pounds and setting a Missouri yearly record for two-year-olds.
The supreme court under Judge Henry W. Bond ruled the public service commission out of bounds in extending free storage time for commercial travelers baggage, rendering the order void. Gardner on Job. Gov. Gardner will miss Wilson inauguration to stay on the job during the session and expects the next 40 days to determine whether his administration succeeds. he says no appointments will be made during the remainder of the session.
A Canadian missionary, Rev J Hines, assists an Indian man whose wife had died six months earlier. The man asks Hines to select a new wife about his own age, and Hines persuades a widow he knows to marry the man. The marriage proceeds and proves happy, with both parties consenting to the arrangement.
The Christian Register notes that higher wages lift human dignity and productivity. Paying skilled workers fairly yields greater output than hiring many less capable staff. better pay expands ambition and broadens horizons, influencing labor capital relations.
The Washington Star notes chimneys are a relatively late architectural feature. Early castles lacked chimneys with roofed tops, using side openings or flues through walls. By the 15th century masons began extending chimneys above roofs, leaving the top exposed.
Rich graphite deposits near Turkushansk begin to operate with expectations of meeting national demand and leaving little for export. Tests indicate large quantities and high purity, averaging 98 percent carbon. Previously supply came from Austria and Ceylon, but Russian mines promise parity.
Mrs Fidgettes wants Willie punished for whistling all afternoon. Her husband clarifies the noise is a bird in the yard, not Willie. Mrs Fidgettes expresses amused affection for the feathered singer.
An advertisement quotes Mrs. Kieso of Aurora Illinois praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for seven months of illness and regained health. The Pinkham Laboratory highlights unsolicited testimonials and offers free confidential advice from Lynn Massachusetts to every woman seeking help.
A copper banner stone or ceremonial battleax, unearthed during Fond du Lac sewer digging, is shown in Wisconsin Archaeologist's latest issue. The two blades weapon with a handle hole lay six feet underground and likely dates before the lake receded. A prior cache of Indian relics was found in the same city years ago.
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as fast acting digestion aid. It claims complete relief from dyspepsia in five minutes and a stomach that feels sweet with no gas belching or undigested food, urging readers to buy a fifty cent case.
Senator Sorghum noted the speech in congress sparked wide discussion as an effort to settle a question once and for all, but rather supplied more material for ongoing controversy.
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