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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1916
Page
7
The Missouri Supreme Court upheld the Kansas City Liberty Boulevard Road District law as constitutional. The ruling affirms road bond use and enables property owners to decide on road improvements by acreage, with funding shares based on distance from the road. Land within a half mile bears full cost, diminishing with distance.
Johnson County Bureau of Agriculture is closed by the county court after withholding maintenance funds. The farm agent receives pay from public subscription, while Barnertte’s salary is funded by the county. This year no maintenance money was raised and the court declined an appropriation. M E Gougler, current farm agent, will move to Wilson County Kansas as farm adviser.
An enthusiastic gathering organized Carroll County as a branch of the Missouri Central Highway Association. J. W. Higginbottom of Carrollton was elected president with C. C. Swinney of Hale serving as secretary treasurer.
Larry A. Ginter, 51, an insurance man, was found dead at his home of Mrs. M. A. Ginter in Sedalia by neighbors the other afternoon. Death resulted from asphyxiation and is believed to have occurred two days earlier.
Martin Abbott a pioneer farmer of Linn County was killed when a rope in his barn snapped releasing a falling hay prong. The incident occurred in the countryside and left Abbott fatally injured.
Attorneys for the St Joseph Gas Company report their application seeks a lower price than the 17 cent rate charged by other Missouri river cities. A notice appears amid a collection of local items including a new machine gun company organized at Columbia by H B Major and leadership changes at Missouri poultry institutions. A resignation at Mountain Grove shifts focus to the American School of Poultry Hisbaniry. The text ends with an unclear reference to a death by wound.
State Hospital No 2 in St Joseph fires Dr George P Thompson after a three vote board hearing that extended to midnight. A J Postlewait and Edward Villmoore resign from the board while Lucien Eastin L C Chappelle and Nicolas Huffaker vote to discharge Thompson. Dr W M L Whittington named acting superintendent. Villmoare and Postlewait send in a dissenting report.
Workers of the Springfield Tractions company called a peaceful strike after a vote to back a new union affiliated with the Amalgamated Association of Streets and Electric Railway Employes. Car men stayed in barns as lawyers filed mandamus to resume service. The strike followed a refusal by the general manager to sign recognition. Judge Walker and Judge Robert F. Walker were noted figures in related Missouri cases.
The article gives step by step instructions for making a simple paper pinwheel and a wooden hub windmill, plus a scrapbook with cardboard covers and Manila pages. It details paper sizes, folding, cutting along heavy lines, and assembling a bound scrapbook with a shoelace binding and index tabs.
The Buck Prairie special road district near Marionville votes 549 for and 41 against bonds to fund road construction totaling 40 000 dollars.
A resolution adopted at the Missouri Retail Hardware Dealers Association annual convention in St Louis recommends creating a chair of Merchandising and salesmanship at the University of Missouri. An unsigned communication claims Earl Hagerty, son of William Hagerty near Alexandria, is held for 3000 dollars ransom by Mexican bandits in Sonora.
Liberty approved a $20,000 bond issue to extend the sewer system three miles toward the Missouri river with only six votes against the proposition. Traimman Dids of Injuries. Robert Fritz, a veteran employee of Kansas & Texas Railway.
An advertisement claims Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound helps women with nervousness, hot flashes, and pains. It cites testimonials from residents of Philadelphia and Beverly praising its effects and offers free information from the company. It concludes with a caution about not treading on others.
An advertisement claims Resinol Soap will improve pimply skin after a week of use and may aid severe cases. It also suggests the soap softens rough hands and arms, keeps hair healthy, and removes dandruff with no free alkali. available from all druggists.
A garbled note mentions regulation and health terms including liver and bowels. It reads like a stray clue or mnemonic with unclear source context.
A French chemist claims to have invented a process that solidifies all liquors into tablet form. The technique allegedly converts beverages into compact edible tablets, enabling portable storage and dosing.
Leavenworth Kansas druggists Meir & Schott gave Mr Ed F Ariland a jar of Vicks Vap-O-Rub as a trial during last winter. The note describes Vap-O-Rub as a inhaled remedy replacing dosing and heat therapies for croup or cold. It explains applying to throat and chest with a loose neck covering to release vapors.
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