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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1908
Page
4
A fragmented notice dated March 12 1908 references Leader-Record Joseph Siebe with a note about an entry or posting in the Barrow area. The readable text is limited to this sparse excerpt and lacks clear events or outcomes.
Platte County voters approved prohibition locally by 2 159 to 1 217 with seven of ten townships and twenty of twenty three precincts voting wet. Dry precincts were Parkville Dearborn and Edgerton. The area hosts two distilleries Shawhan Weston since 1849 and McCormick Waldron, plus the Royal brewery at Weston. Colleges sit in Parkville Camden Point and Platte City. The county, a leading farming area, records high mule prices and notes the wider regional impact of prohibition as seen in nearby Kansas counties.
Secretary Garfield announces a new interior department policy to open Indian reservations in the West to white settlement only in the fall. Previously openings occurred in spring or early summer, with homesteaders required to settle within six months. The change aims to avoid late fall or winter entry.
In a high turnout local option election, thirty eight saloons in St Francois county were closed with Farmington and county going dry by margins of 16 and 475 respectively. Bonne Terre wets won by 178 while Holt county reported 2 761 votes of 3 500 total crossing to a 309 dry majority. The voting ushers in September or October for opening of valuation and conservation actions.
A deputy sheriff told a young clerk he would buy No 52 overalls provoking a mock search for a burglar at the depot. The next tale recounts a farmer weighing a wagon to test coal honesty, with a humorous scales quip about ten bushels being close.
At the Monday meeting of the Board of Aldermen Dr W A Cater gained approval to detail a special policeman for duty at the New Cater theater during entertainments. The doctor will cover costs and hopes the presence of a cop will deter hoodlumism and backwoods manners. A few arrests may be needed to ensure audience comfort.
D B Hunter will be in his office over Lantz Drug Store from 8 AM to 5 PM. He is well equipped to perform all kinds of dental work.
A DC citizen struggles to read his newspaper after dinner as his wife objects to his reading. The piece recounts wives policing husbands, from pipe cleaning to shampooing, with sharp social satire of marital duties and gender roles in a 20th century urban setting.
The stockholders of the Hackney Horse Co are requested to meet at the Farmers Exchange Bank on Saturday March 21 1908 to discuss corporate matters and agenda items.
Property listing seeks buyers for a 47 acre farm with improvements near the school three miles from town. Apply at this office.
Choice black seed oats for sale. For sale Reed's pure bred yellow dent seed corn. See F. A. Fleming or L. S. Crookshanks.
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