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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1913
Page
3
McGraw criticizes players for lack of warmth after attending a theater with new Giants recruit. Veteran hints at another night out to Bill Brady's theater titled Bought and Paid For. Young player expresses relief if the show is poor.
A physician in a Pennsylvania coal mining town gives households a new thermometer and urges temperature care. A woman explains she watches it closely and when it rises above 70 she takes it down and puts it outside to cool.
A Baltimore police justice has fitted mirrors in his courtroom so drunken persons may see themselves as others see them. The exchange recalls the barn door and horse table simile and critiques the judge's sentence justification.
A shopper recalls a TL marked coin entering circulation and returning about a week later. The same thing happened to them with a box of Christmas cigars, illustrating an odd coin circulation quirk.
In a Harper's Weekly vignette a bedridden hobo named Harry answers a sympathetic lady, saying his life includes over 16 years in various places and that his main trouble is simply a habit of sleeping eight hours a day. He accepts a quarter and keeps his cheeky humor.
The remark praises Professor Smythe for his engaging manner and wit. It notes he avoids making others feel foolish while displaying cleverness, highlighting his charming conversational style. The exchange underscores his balanced intelligence and tactful demeanor.
A Missouri woman tells how she feeds her loquacious husband fish to curb his talking. She notes 17 fish varieties in 47 preparations over two months and jokes he could eat the whale that swallowed Jonah and still talk.
A fortune-teller proclaims a husband does not value his wife and dislikes her mother, stays out late, returns worse for wear, and growls when asked for money, while being courteous to other women, prompting the seeker to demand specifics about her own husband.
A clipped exchange echoes a claim of not running a storage warehouse for damaged goods as a witty line pivots a tense moment between two parties. The remark underscores a confrontation over responsibility and proper storage of items.
A village tale reports farmer Hi Hardapple treating his cow with what he believed to be medicine but injected gasoline by mistake. The result left the Jersey cow mooing no more and instead honking like an automobile, prompting locals' amused chatter.
In a backstage exchange the actress laments aging while the impresario muses on using artistic gown illustrations for posters. The manager nods to fresh apparel and the visual branding pivot.
A dialogue notes many plays with business titles like Paid For and Delivered and Receipt ed in Full. The speaker jokes about finding a work titled If You Don’t Like It Money Back as a new business themed title.
A short dialogue shows George and a fiancée discussing their engagement and finances. The woman asks if anyone will claim she married for money, and George mentions earning twenty dollars weekly, hoping for a raise to twenty five.
A home scene unfolds with a couple discussing a blueberry pie gone awry. The husband notices the blueing in the dough and the wife jokes about overdoing it, framing a lighthearted domestic moment.
Final report of Fulton state hospital treasurer shows county costs for insane wards in six months totaling about 62 900 with Boone leading at 3818 35 and Jackson County at 4151 These figures imply state wide insane ward costs around 500 000 annualized. Kansas City births for 1912 outpaced deaths with 2789 male and 2466 female births and 2542 male and 1734 female deaths.
A Continent excerpt argues ministers should feel owed a living, not charity, stressing that salary is a duty to the church and king. It rebukes trustee delays and the beggar label, noting pastors serve civilization and humanity, with missions flowing from church officials and not personal solicitation.
The Springfield land office reports 1912 as the smallest year in office history. Government receipts totaled about 14 500 and acreage disposed under 10 000. Much land involved homesteaders final prods, with fewer than 1 090 acres left for cash or homestead entry, mostly in small tracts unusable for agriculture.
The new $200000 Springfield trust company elected officers with promoter Gov Hadley and State Game Warden Jesse Tolerton. W. M. Wade, formerly state bank examiner now in St. Louis, is president. F. Miller is vice president. L. E. Shattuck heads the realty department. G. M. Sebree serves as attorney and general counsel.
For years Ely Hill has served as conductor on the Cen tralia to University of Missouri line guiding students on all special trains. University students and local business people presented Hill with a gold lantern costing 125 dollars, funded by subscription.
Judge Van Valkenburg in Kansas City federal court appointed receivers for the Kansas City Missouri Gas Company after attorneys argued that Kansas Natural Gas Company's new rate, approved by Judge Pollock, made it impossible for the local distributor to sell gas at the prescribed rate.
Farmers in Missouri use parcel post to mail seed corn for the state show. In the final entry period John Steffins of Saline County sent a large white car as the first parcel post entry. Many packages mailed at Columbia are delivered to the state board of agriculture by farmers.
Fire at Lexington caused an estimated $20,000 in losses. John C. Young Jr. lost his livery stable and an adjacent apartment house. Sparks set several nearby barns afire. twenty three horses perished. Livery equipment, an automobile, carriages, and feed were destroyed.
Ward King of Maitland, renowned for promoting good roads and inventing the split log road drag, has been invited by Brazilian public and private interests, especially in Rio Janeiro, to visit Brazil to study and promote roadwork. He has not decided but may travel next month and return for summer good roads meetings.
Unidentified man found dead on Baltimore Bar in the Missouri River, several miles below Lexington. The body appears to have been in the river for months. A dollar watch recovered on the body is being traced to its purchaser.
No meaningful rainfall since early November leaves Bevier without water. Coal mines ship in water daily and the electric light plant will soon need water. Cisterns are mostly dry as the town faces shortages.
Andrew Nicolson aged 75 a Callaway native died at his Calwood home. His father George A Nicolson settled in Callaway in 1832 and was a large land owner.
Mrs. George Meyers living near Gray's Summit left her three children in the cottage while she went to the village. She returned to find the home in ruins and the charred bodies of the children, the oldest just four years old, the origin of the fire unknown.
Edward Dickens received a forty year sentence in the penitentiary for the murder of Fred Dorst at Brandon last September. The jury deliberated overnight before returning a guilty verdict in the morning.
Neosho residents approved a dry measure by a 136 vote majority after a heated campaign by temperance advocates. The margin exceeds the four year earlier result by a factor of three.
Miss Katherine Peterson former cashier at C. H. Herr & Co. Springfield sues the firm for 25000 dollars claiming malicious prosecution. She was arrested last April charged with embezzling 175 dollars. A criminal trial last August resulted in a verdict of not guilty.
Reports from southern Missouri counties show continued drouth causing considerable damage to winter wheat. Less than a half inch of rain fell in the past two months as ponds and streams remain very low.
Governor Hadley granted parole to A. C. Biles who was convicted of murder in St. Louis in May 1907 and sentenced to life. The inmate, said to be in the last stages of consumption, was recommended for release by the prison physician and inspectors after drugging beer to enable robbery.
The fine residence of C A Allen of Butler and its contents were consumed by fire at an early hour. Loss estimated at 11000 with 1600 dollars in musical instruments.
Mrs Pauline Richers of St Louis, a 70 year old widow, has legally adopted William Fred Linders a 19 year old, declaring him the nicest mannered boy in the neighborhood. The deed of adoption has been filed with the recorder of deeds.
Margaret Truitt, aged 83, a longtime resident of Ralls County for over eight decades, died four weeks after sustaining injuries from a fall. The death is reported as the direct result of that accident.
George Bruner of Joplin a Missouri Pacific brakeman lost a leg but saved his life by throwing his body clear as his foot caught in a switch at Arma Kansas. His action prevented worse injuries as cars passed, crushing the limb near the foot.
The first annual state conference of older boys in Y M C A work met recently in Sedalia. Elected for 1913 were President Freeman Mhanighurst of Kansas City Vice President Milton Webber of St Joseph Secretary Morton Cummins of St Louis and Assistant Secretary H Powell of Joplin.
Dallas County mourns Anthony Scott, the county's oldest resident, who died at his Buffalo home at age 95. A Civil War veteran he moved from Tennessee in 1855 and had lived on the same farm for about 50 years.
State Bank Commissioner Swanger issued a charter for the State Savings Bank of Springfield with capital stock of 100000 dollars fully paid up. All shareholders are directors and residents of Springfield.
Cholera continues to devastate hog herds in Pettis County with B F Mc Clure of Houstonia reporting losses above one hundred hogs. Other farmers similar in scale report heavy mortality across the area.
A devotional meditation asserts that temptations cannot injure a believer whose life is wholly in Christ. It states that abiding in Christ prevents sin while one’s will may resist or yield to Satan. The piece emphasizes Christ indwelling and surrounding the believer as protection against evil.
Hoosier congressman Ralph W. Moss accompanied his wife to a millinery shop and, after seeing the hats, bought one for forty dollars. He later admitted the purchase and now allows his wife to buy her own hats without complaint.
A pointed saying contrasts divine inexorability with labor strife noting that higher powers ignore labor unrest while human judgment may falter. The remark ties timeless disdain for folly to ongoing disputes over work and time.
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