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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1905
Page
8
Notices indicate lands available for sale in New Mexico, Oklahoma Indian Territory and nearby Texas area under the auspices of a Texas Emigrant Agent. The listing specifies multiple regions and implies relocation or settlement opportunities through official channels.
Miss Moe Hale recovers enough to go out after illness. Miss Begsie Brown back from Kirksville. Miss Nellie Southerland concludes term at Smith. New bridge west of town finished. Uncle Erick Purdin is very ill. Purdin band rehearses for Shelby Fourth. Lewis Burkholder of North Dakota leaves for Kansas after Missouri visit. Miss Ora Fore returns from Chillicothe visit. Mrs A M Hunter sick a few days. Beverly Carr visits home briefly. Terril Beckholder sick from poison vine. A F Dodson digs basement for new house. Miss Bettie Wisdom returns home from with sister Mrs Dryden. Elnora Myers returns from Laclede. Josh Bumgarner’s house addition nearly done. Albert Johnson and Rev Sitton back from south and west trip.
The piece notes a broad graft reform push led by figures such as Governor La Follette of Wisconsin Governor Folk of Missouri District Attorney Jerome of New York Clarence S Darrow of Chicago and Thomas W Lawson of Boston. They plan a July reform rally in Ottawa Kansas to spark a political revival. It cites rising public anger over graft and cites Folk s anti betting on horse races as part of the wider crackdown.
A Missouri governor leads a push against professional lobbying as reform spreads nationwide. Milwaukee plans a grand jury probe into graft while Connecticut mayors discuss Sunday liquor sales. Public outrage over the Equitable scandal and frenzied finance fuels calls for a political revolution and tighter control of big trusts.
At a Brookfield Board of Education meeting five sealed bids were opened for the next school year coal supply. Four bids were from home mines and one was from a foreign source.
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