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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1912
Page
7
Chicago dispatch reports Taft forces extend control as contests from California to Mississippi are seated by majority votes. California and Missouri cases draw bitter clashes with Roosevelt supporters, while adjournment trends toward tense anticipation and unresolved contests remain for Texas and Washington.
Mrs. Florence Porter of Los Angeles and Mrs. Isabella W. Blaney of San Francisco, delegates to the convention, will be guests of honor at a Hamilton Club luncheon Monday. Joining them will be Senator William A. Smith of Michigan and Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth.
A. F. Landom, 50, a farmer from near McComb, Shawnee Oklahoma, shot and killed himself.
Col Roosevelt indicates that a new party could form after adjourning the current convention if his supporters return home and gauge sentiment. He favors delaying final action for a few weeks to study community views before assembling leaders for a possible national convention representing plain people across parties.
The first session of the National Republican convention opened with Governor Hadley’s motion to substitute for the national committee’s temporary delegates rolled out. Roosevelt men had prepared a roll that eliminated 78 contested delegates. Senator Root of New York was elected temporary chairman. The article includes a table of state votes for temporary chairman.
On the second day Governor Hadley renewed his motion to unseat contested delegates. Watson of Indiana sought to refer the motion to the credentials committee while Governor Deneen proposed an amendment barring contested delegates from voting on credentials or committee reports. Watson moved to table Deneen’s motion as states prepared to vote.
On Thursday the convention merely marked time while awaiting the report of the committee on credentials.
The French government proposes appointing an arbitrator to resolve the sea labor strike. Marine Minister Delcasse offered the plan, but the seamen federation did not respond. Dunkirk and Havre traffic remains severely crippled while Marseilles worsens.
Edward Weesner, 21, died at the Hea ping slaughter house near Emporia Kansas from heart disease, according to a local report.
A collage of quotes and jests on women and chivalry from various sources. Miss Ttalia Garibaldi voices frustration with Italian gender bias in Chicago. A Florida lecture mocks oyster lore and female wit. The piece closes with aphorisms on ownership and social quirks.
Mrs H Albrecht of West Point Nebraska describes her three year old Gilbert who suffered severe eczema on his face from infancy. After two doctors in Chicago failed, she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment and four weeks later the skin cleared. She endorses the remedies and offers a free sample by writing Cuticura Dept. L Boston.
A northern visitor asks Steve, a local black man, about a plantation. Each answer is "Yahs, sah" until pressed for "No, sir" and Steve repeats "Yahs, sah" in a taciturn vignette from a Judge source.
An ad claims Doan’s Kidney Pills cure thousands of cases of backache and kidney trouble. Mrs. C. F. Mace of Shawneetown Illinois testifies she was bedridden from backache and headaches until using Doan’s. The copy urges readers to remember the product name and buy at 60 cents.
A historic remark notes airship construction as a path to rapid revenue, with the punchline that the endeavor "makes the money fly." The quote frames early enthusiasm for lighter‑than‑air craft and the speculative financial lure surrounding them.
Fragmentary courtroom scene with a defendant urged by counsel to accept a sentence. The speaker mocks the judge and describes humiliation and a prison measure, ending with a taunting cry.
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