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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1908
Page
4
Browning Leader-Retard notes the steam engine’s pivotal impact on civilization. It contrasts ancient struggles with nature to modern reliance on machinery, citing James Watt’s 1769 invention as a turning point and a force that reshaped food, fuel, attire, and shelter through industrial progress.
The article from Success Magazine urges young men to seek technical education and bold career aims. Edison proclaims the United States starving for ten thousand dollar men and cites Bethlehem Steel as proof of industrial demand for educated minds.
A miscellany reviews a self styled mental therapist promising mind control to influence disposition and even travel. notes the booming boot black trade in New York tunnels. reports on Madrid Spain lottery prizes and an Ohio woman seeking mayoral office after divorce reflecting quirky holiday and civic notes.
A high school in Pennsylvania reports students moved a cow into the girls dormitory. The act is described as outdated and impractical as dorm life adapts to modern routines and dairy tasks are no longer handled by students.
A drunken man in a Cleveland barber shop fixates on a large mustache in the chair and urges the barber to clip it off, prompting exchanges with the barber and the seated patron before leaving.
A morning paper quotes a Wall Street veteran recounting a joke about Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan aboard a steamer bound for Europe. Carnegie laments a larger share of wealth, Morgan responds that he could have had it, highlighting a storied clash over fortune.
A beggar claims to have asked over a hundred people for the price of a cup of coffee in a day. He notes that his takings include pennies and a few nickels, marking it as the first dime he earned, while lamenting the generosity of those who have money but show charity to the poor.
Congress welcomed two Philippine resident commissioners Benito Legarda and Pablo Ocampo de Leon. They will receive 7500 dollars salary plus travel allowances of 2000 dollars per round trip, sit on floors of both chambers but hold no voting rights.
President Roosevelt and Gen. J Franklin Bell tried Muldoons eight mile on foot test after a 15 mile army ride. The president finished but with no appetite for more tests while Bell stayed fit.
The pure food department funds an experiment by Dr. Wiley's team to compare bleached and unbleached flour. Bread is baked and tested via weighing microscopy acid tests and physical scrutiny. Results will be reported to the House committee on agriculture with warnings to the public about safe bread colors.
A disjointed dialogue features a tourist and a Ps President Hopecraft debating what to do with a scape snond turtle. The exchange touches on sending the creature to a bear and mentions the turtle laying 399 eggs, amid confusion and odd phrasing.
President's son Quentin Roosevelt rode a trained elephant Bolivar in a circus held by Y M C A boys to raise funds for a running track. The event featured clowns, a polar bear, and a sketchy dialogue about dates and candidates drawing applause from Mrs Roosevelt and the crowd.
A Germantown woman reports her maid Nora broke the thermometer and the mistress sighs that they will have to take the weather as it comes, a humorous exchange clipped from Hariyer's Weekly.
Western Canada attracts U S settlers as rail rate deals to the Canadian Northwest rival southwest incentives. Reports from Alberta observers cite mild winter conditions and strong yields in 1907 with large acreages under wheat oats hay potatoes and sugar beets, including high per acre values.
An ivy plant growing in a crevice of St. John the Baptist church tower in Yarnborough undermined the foundation and displaced stones, prompting repairs estimated at 3000 dollars.
From October to May colds are the leading headache cause. Laxative Bromo Quinine purportedly removes the headache cause. E W Grove notes box 2 includes nothing not M11 taken, per German reference.
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