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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1917
Page
3
A wartime training guide emphasizes starting and stopping precisely in marching. Cadence at 120 steps per minute trains new recruits to fit into units, with methodical commands from forward to halt. It details stepping, foot placement, and keeping alignment as essential habits for unified drill.
The text explains flexible troop movement and the need for quick command execution. It details how commands like column right or left flank direct units at various formations, and describes the moving pivot technique guiding footwork and direction changes during marching.
The article explains how commands divide into preparatory and execution parts, with the preparatory command informing timing and building readiness and the execution command delivering a decisive, pistol-shot tone. It notes the need for a brief interval between parts and outlines example commands and signaling methods.
A woman, guided by a railway remark about showing self intoxication, hires a kinematograph operator to film her husband amid family witnesses. The man remains quiet, then leaves, and is later found at a club after his fifteenth cocktail. The scene ends with a puzzled exchange about the marmot.
The Missouri State Board of Agriculture Institute Worker Wm D. McKee outlines emergency crops for farmers adapting to war demands. He recommends early maturing sorghums like Early Amber for hay, New Era cowpeas for hay, rape for hog forage, and soybeans such as Ito San for late July plantings. Late frost favors corn as a prime emergency crop.
Jesse Marr a pioneer farmer of Saline county dies at his home three miles south of Marshall Born in Fayette county in 1836 he settled in Saline county as a young man and fought in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Claude J. Pierson, held in St. Louis city jail as a suspect in the Baby Lloyd Keet case from Springfield, asked a negro janitor to bring rat poison. The janitor reported the incident, and an extra guard was assigned to Pierson’s cell.
Farm agents of the Frisco railroad estimate about 215 carloads of Alberta peaches will be shipped from Koshkonong Brandsville and nearby districts starting around August 1. They also project 2 055 cars of watermelons to leave southeast Missouri plus 165 from Arkansas and 300 from Oklahoma. Rain is needed for crops.
B C Bigerstaff, superintendent of publicity and concessions for the State Fair Association, reports exceptionally favorable crop prospects for Central Missouri this year.
John S Currell aged 78 died at his home south of Excelsior Springs Missouri. A native of Fayette born in 1839 he had lived in the area several years. He is survived by three daughters.
Heat in St. Louis recently caused the death of three persons and the prostration of three others, all said to be in a dangerous condition.
Reeves Hopkins an 82 year old Confederate veteran attacked his friend Norris Mitchell in Montgomery after Mitchell argued that the United States should have stayed out of the war. The incident marks an early overt act in local tensions over national conflict.
Dr. Joseph H. Mayfield reports at least forty seven deaths from enterocolitis in New Madrid county since late May and about one hundred ill, pushing Southern Missouri deaths to 118 with three hundred still ill. Doctors urge urgent state aid, home screens, lime disinfectant, and visiting nurses.
The two Missouri counties face a deadly outbreak in Oran Kenne tt Salem Township Senath and surrounding towns. Doctors Wescoat and Winters treat over a hundred cases with Enterocolitis and Iliocolitis causing severe intestinal inflammation and rapid decline.
The Audrain County exemption board resigns en masse. Sheriff J. G. Ford County Clerk Ross B. Cauthorn and Dr. R. T. Gibbs step down citing unwillingness to determine who goes to the front and who stays home.
The Missouri public service commission engineers completed an appraisal of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company's Springfield plant properties. The evaluation informs the commission's decision on the petition for a rate increase recently filed by the company.
R C Haemsler, a Missouri House of Representatives member aged 60, died in St. Charles leaving a vacancy in the state legislature.
A sermon argues that rising prices reveal a deeper issue the high cost of life. It speaks of conscience shaped by Jesus Christ and the duty to nurture spiritual, intellectual, and moral growth beyond mere economic gains. The piece urges self denial and active national duty to sustain a higher life.
Longshoremen on the waterfront fled in alarm when a steer swam up under a pier. Police investigated and, after calls to the dock department and the SPCA, a crew hoisted the animal aboard. The steer reportedly spent about two days in the river before rescue.
The quotation reflects on Job's patience and humility before God, contrasting his anger with friends and his self abasement as the crowning dignity of a self respect described as an epic virtue. The author cites G Stanley Lee observing Job's enduring grandeur through trial and inner strength.
A reflective Testament on love as an eternal human need. The speaker quotes Lucy Larcom framing love as a divine impulse expressed through free and spontaneous giving of one’s inner self. It emphasizes universal love as God’s love and elevates intimate affection as sacred.
Poem fragment attributes distant blessings, hints at unseen future grace, and reflects Whittier's reverent tone. The speaker muses on present blessings and the potential for greater ones beyond perception.
A London correspondent describes the food controller of Great Britain planning experimental communal kitchens. Central kitchens would cook meals shipped in large tin-lined boxes to depots for sale, keeping food hot for long periods. The scheme aims to aid families hindered by ill health and wartime shortages while providing varied diets and direct central oversight.
The University of Wisconsin manual arts department reports experiments using soft steel and iron as partial substitutes for copper in decorative metal work. With copper priced over 50 cents per pound, steel at 14 cents offers similar workability and wear resistance, though lacking copper’s red-gold luster, which can be replaced with silver burnish or paint.
Fifty years ago the average US life span was around four years. Now it nears forty five with a projection toward nearly sixty in fifty years. The gain stems from disease prevention and better health practices supported by medical science.
A partial excerpt describes Hindoos with queer toms and names that resembled strings gold coins and many bangles. The text is incomplete and lacks clear context or events.
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