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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1915
Page
3
Reports from Red Bank New Jersey indicate the Kline Laboratories physician’s epilepsy treatment shows strong results with many patients claiming cures. People are urged to write to Kline Laboratories Branch 48 Red Bank NJ for a free supply.
A humorous line defines a philosopher as a man who bears with resignation the tooth ache of another. The quip frames philosophical empathy in plain terms.
The Place ponders a playful riddle about finding rods in pickle jars. A witty Q A contrasts common jars with family preserves and hints at hidden shelves in everyday pantries.
A quirky proverb notes dry grain like rice cleans violin interiors best while contrasting riches that have wings with poverty that does not fly high.
Many former University of Missouri faculty hold offers from New York to California and Minnesota to Louisiana for bigger pay. Yet a number stay for sentiment, homes, or the university president's example, including A. Ross Hill who rejected $10,000 a year from Minnesota four years ago.
Dr. R B Love deputy state veterinarian says twelve cattle in southwestern Missouri show foot and mouth like symptoms, six from Greene county. He notes disease is infectious but not contagious and no slaughter needed as cases are mild. Cooperation prevents county quarantines. later Dr Luckey disputes diagnosis.
The Reverend J. W. D. Hunt, Baptist minister for 43 years, marked his 85th birthday at his son W. M. Hunt’s home in Polo. Born in 1830 in Fleming county Kentucky, he came to Missouri in 1848 with his parents and has spent his life in Ray and Caldwell counties. He was ordained in 1872.
The couple celebrated their sixty seventh anniversary at home in Rich Hill Bates County. They were married in St. Louis on February 14 1848 and have lived in Bates County for the past thirty years.
The Auto Transportation Company with a capital of $30,000 filed articles of incorporation in Carthage to operate a district auto bus line.
At a Springfield meeting of the Missouri Congress of Mothers and Parent- Teachers Association the board of managers decided to hold the annual convention in Kansas City during the first week of April. The decision follows discussions on organizing activities for the year.
A new Chicago-Kansas City Highway Association forms to push a Mark Twain Highway linking Kansas City Hannibal and Chicago. The route follows the Cannon Ball trail and nears Mark Twain's Hannibal boyhood home now city property. Hannibal to Quincy to Cameron then Kansas City forms the core with officers named in Missouri, Illinois, and Missouri towns.
The fifth annual Missouri Society banquet in Washington drew 125 diners including William B. Wilson and S. F. Prouty with speakers like Speaker Clark and Mrs Clark. Others included former Governor Dockery, Senator Cockrell and Rep Russell. Dem senate caucus barred Stone and Reed. Folk also absent on commission business.
Thomas W. Orr, a Collins farmer, reports six young mules dead from a herd of thirty seven after consuming spoiled ensilage with dry fungus. A veterinarian diagnosed cerebro spinal meningitis linked to the moldy feed.
The office of P. Alquist master car builder for the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway in Sedalia was burglarized. Fourteen pay checks were taken from the chief clerk's desk and the total value is not known.
At the Jasper County Fair Association annual gathering in Carthage Miss Emma R Knell was elected secretary and general manager. She is believed to be the only woman fair manager in the United States. Dies From Shock: William Jones 83 of Carthage dies after a fall breaking his leg. He was a Civil War veteran and had lived in Jasper County fifty years. He was wealthy.
Squire W. D. Roberts aged ninety died the other morning at New Camoria in Macon county. In 1864 and 1865 he led a large Welsh colony from across the United States and Wales to settle in New Canbria.
Richard B Coffey a Savannah dry goods merchant was found not guilty of murder in the August 12 killing of Mrs Myrtle Fancher. In a separate case J F Baldwin and Norman Herring facing second degree murder charges over the death of Joshua Wallace at the State Hospital for the Insane No 2 St Joseph.
A man identified as Thomas Hodson, 64, was burned to death when a fire destroyed his daughter’s home seven miles south of Monroe. The residence belonged to Mrs. B J Ptercall. Investigators indicated the fatal blaze occurred early evening and caused total loss of the dwelling.
A Washington tale about Secretary of the Navy Daniels claims he interrupted a meeting to accuse an officer of whiskey on breath. The officer allegedly replied that it was whiskey yesterday but gin today. No names are confirmed and the tale may be fiction.
A widow recalls her late husband as a good man admired by many. He belonged to six lodges and she admits she did not know him well. The speaker notes that a truly dignified man lays aside pride to do his duty as he sees it.
A California woman recounts switching from coffee to Postum for her husband’s bilious temperament and her own weight gain and nerve strength. After three years of steady use they report better health and no desire for coffee, praising Postum as a healthier alternative.
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