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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1913
Page
6
Noted digest from diverse regions highlights major events and notable developments for readers. Concise summaries capture politics, society, and science with emphasis on items of broad interest.
Navy dispatch from Lieutenant Upham aboard the steel yacht Scorpion at Odessa confirms the first crossing of the Dardanelles by a foreign warship and its anchoring in the Black Sea.
Disjointed clippings report women employed pentirete defending against union pickets with hidden hatpin screwdrivers. Other notes cover stock market slide, hydrophobia passenger, a death sentence appeal, Baptist convention attendance, locust damage, a coal mine ball, Fort Smith court orders, NM accident deaths, a judge's fistfight death, a press contempt ruling, and Roosevelt libel suit outcomes.
Fragmented dispatches report rebels seizing Mata Moros Mexico from federals after nine hours of street fighting. Toll of deaths cited as heavy though precise figures were unavailable and some lines appear garbled.
Lieutenant Governor W R Painter urges a state insurance rate board with three members from the governor, insurers, and the state Supreme Court. The board would set rates by rule, hear citizens, inspect properties, and operate independently to settle the rate question with minimal expense.
Clarence West, a Marionville Methodist College graduate, tore his diploma at commencement in front of hundreds, saying he mimicked Daniel Webster to show the diploma is only a stepping stone to higher education.
The daughter of Rev. J. B. White, former pastor at Montgomery and Wellsville, was killed when she fell from a lumber wagon near Brandon, Colorado, and the wagon passed over her body.
St. Joseph L. N. Edington, brakeman, won a $20,000 judgment against the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad for the severing of his leg at work. This amount is described as the largest ever awarded in the state for such an injury.
Dr. W. B. Woods of Kansas City renews his $10,000 offer for summer improvements at Fulton College. W. E. Jameson of Fulton is re-elected chairman of the board of managers.
Nevada outlines five intercounty highways totaling 150 miles under the Road Drag law. The routes run from Nevada to Butler Osceola Stockton and La- route details are incomplete in the excerpt.
Miss Mason dedicates a tablet at the entrance gate of Christian College Columbia in memory of her grandfather J. K. Rogers first president of the school. Allen Crittenden of Kansas City arranged the unveiling ceremony with E. W. Stephens of Columbia assisting.
Dr. William P. Cutler, the state dairy commissioner, announced from New York City his resignation and acceptance of a $6,000 a year post with the American Association of Manufacturers of Products from Corns.
Red eyed locusts appear in Clay County marking the first sighting in seventeen years aided by old residents. The era recalls large swarms reported in 1896 in this section.
In Joplin, miner Monroe Gohlsop died by his own action after placing a dynamite stick on his chest and lighting it. No motive is known for the tragedy.
A rabies scare grips Oakland a Joplin suburb as mad cats attack residents. Floyd Woodworth fights off a cat and kills it. Dr G A Barnett is bitten after finding a rabid cat in his chicken coop and sends the head to Kansas City for testing. Extermination drives begin with dozens of cats killed.
The Maire Hunting and Fishing club house and grounds two miles south of Hollister were sold at foreclosure to F. K. Knight of St. Louis for 12500. The Maine state building from the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair was moved to White River site and used as a summer home by a club of St. Louis and Kansas City bankers and business people. The buyer held a $2000 mortgage with bondholders represented at sale.
The Missouri Pacific dispatcher Frank A Roach who caused two wrecks at Brandt station has reportedly turned white from black hair and is a nervous wreck. He is staying with his wife's parents in Eldon and is said to never resume telegraph work. Superintendent A J Alexander says Roach was highly competent and reliable.
A health census of St Louis babies will be conducted soon under the direction of three society women who recently ran a baby show. Mrs. Frank De Garmo, Mrs. Robert McKittrick Jones and Mrs. William Utter lead the effort to test mental and physical efficiency and to alert parents to remedial defects.
The Missouri State Board of Osteopathy reorganized during a Kirksville session electing President E. G. Hildreth of St. Louis, Vice President B. J. Mavity of Nevada, Secretary John A. Bell of Hannibal, Treasurer W. J. Deeming of Brookfield, and reappointing J. S. Cole of Columbia as board member.
Frederick Becker age 83 died at his son in law Otto Dierking home in Lexington. Born in Arendsee Province Prussia in 1830 he came to the United States with parents in 1846 landing at Galveston Texas and settled in Lexington in 1853.
About four hundred road boosters from Howard, Cooper and Boone counties met in Rocheport for a basket dinner and a big good roads rally. The group toured southern Howard county to inspect roads and bridges and to plan cross state highway improvements. E W Stephens of Columbia led the meeting with speeches by Frank Buffum State Highway Commissioner A W Walker J A Gentry W W Seay and several county officials and attorneys.
Nine year old James Cuttah climbed a telephone pole to free a kite entangled in wires. He was electrocuted after a brief suspension, and his father watched as the boy dropped to the pavement dead. Meanwhile farmer Hiram Blevins, 67, died on a public road six miles southwest of Polo while returning home from town. He had lived on the same farm for 40 years.
Judge John A. Marshall in Kansas City rules dismemberment of Kansas Natural Gas Company. Federal receivers keep control of assets in Oklahoma and Missouri during appeal, threatening no gas for Missouri cities and possible stockholder losses. Appeals may reach the U.S. Supreme Court. bond set at 50 000 with 20 day deadline.
Washington reports Senator Hitchcock introduces an anti trust era amendment to the Underwood Tariff bill. The plan would levy a sliding surcharge on tobacco products starting at one cent per pound and rising to six cents as production surpasses set thresholds, in addition to the standard eight cent per pound tax. The measure aims to tax manufacturers once they control about 25 percent of output.
Washington Attorney General Mc Reynolds calls the Standard Oil dissolution decree inadequate to meet Sherman Act aims. He signals a tough stance ahead in the antitrust investigation to determine if an oil trust still exists and objects to dissolving the trust by pro rata stock distribution among the same shareholders.
W E pane general secretary of the Y M C A at Corncil Bieffs was arrested in Cedar Rapids on information filed by County Attorney Capell charging him with an attempted arson of the Y M C A building on April 1 in Ia.
Arenweenee Lazarri required three stitches to his lip after catching a snapping turtle and blowing smoke at its head, the animal bit him in the ensuing confrontation.
Mrs Emma Patterson reports severe scalp eruption on a girl with itching and hair loss. After trying multiple soaps and medicines she used Cuticura Soap and Cutie Ointment, washing three times weekly. A week later the head was clear and hair grew well. The ad endorses Cuticura with free samples offer.
A northern gentleman watches a bear hunt in Mississippi as his guide Sam, urged by a planter, bravely enters a cane thicket to retrieve the bear. The crowd marvels at Sam's courage and his claim of being personally acquainted with the bear creature.
During Father Ward Vaughan's U S tour an encounter with a suffragette led to a retort. A haughty lady asked where he would be without a woman. The reply said he would be eating ice cream under an apple in the Garden of Eden on such sultry evenings.
In a brief exchange the fiancee explains that the mother’s disapproval over coin cigarettes is unfounded. She reveals the mother is simply saving coupons, reframing the issue as pragmatic rather than moral.
A Kansas woman credits Postum with relief from stomach and heart trouble worsened by coffee. She reports steadier nerves and improved memory after switching, noting better heart regularity and fewer symptoms. Postum by Postum Co. Battle Creek Mich.
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