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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1915
Page
6
Reports describe spring campaigns along the Nieman to Dniester with clashes in Polish Galicia. Other items note French and British action at the Dardanelles, political shifts in the United States, and military leadership changes amid ongoing global conflict.
Foreign Affairs reports Provisional President Roque Gonzales Garcia pledges every precaution to protect public safety in Mexico City. Count Carl Bernadotte, son of Prince Bernadotte, marries Baron de Geer’s daughter amid European royal ties. The National Italian League calls for abolition of See Daprene while the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences appeals to France on looming wartime questions.
Sen Wallace Greene of Kansas City denounces rural senators claiming a state tax scheme shifts the burden to three large cities. He cites that St. Louis Kansas City and St. Joseph account for about 48 percent of assessed value and over 60 percent of total state taxes, while cities receive insufficient services.
Commissioner John T. Fitzpatrick issues a bulletin praising Missouri as healthful and sanitary with a fifth lowest death rate per 1,000 in 1914. White and black mortality averaged 12.2, dropping to about 11.5 if negroes are omitted, among 3.375 million residents. Missouri fares better than many northern states in racial mortality differences.
Senate rail committee amended and reported favorably the house public service commission bill. The amendment drops a required physical valuation of railroads before rate hikes from 2 cents to 2 1/2 cents per mile. If approved by both chambers the railroads may gain a half cent per mile increase immediately.
The house committee on education decided to report favorably the Buford bill to require the curators of the University of Missouri to install mechanical electrical and chemical engineering courses at Rolla School of Mines duplicating work already offered at Columbia.
Members of the board of curators of Missouri University will appear before the House Committee on Education to protest the Buford bill. The panel faces a split on prison legislation as the House penitentiary committee remains hopelessly divided.
The House engrossed the women police bill authorizing cities of 5000 or more to place women on the police force by a vote of 89 to 24. The dairy bill was killed and an amendment to the service commission act barred members from running for office for two years after service.
The house engrossed the general contingent appropriation bill with amendments amid strong opposition to the public service commission funds. Farris would cut to 120000, Barbee to 150000, Wiley to 200000 with the latter adopted, setting 271000 for the next biennium. A new 12500 grant to the blind commission was tied to donations and training trades. Spites delay civil appropriations as gag rule protests erupt. The Cole county grand jury investigates the legislative lobby with witnesses including Greene Roach Becker and C H Becker, Roach declining to admit testimony.
A resolution by ve Erman calls for $6,000 to send 26 Republicans and about as many Democrats plus one more to the Panama-Pacific exposition as Missouri Day representatives. Also debated were pensions for Confederate veterans and a $206,000 appropriation for soldiers on roll credits, with plans for new reformatory and courthouse buildings in Boonville under a revised territorial view.
London reports a likely major engagement along the Yser with Belgian and German forces poised as floods ease. Artillery prep and counterattacks loom, while French attempts near Champagne face repulse. fighting in Argonne and Vosges slows with wintry weather. British losses rise. Grenadier Guards and Cameronians suffer severe casualties.
The United States court of appeals upheld a lower court ruling sentencing Maury Diggs and F Drew Caminetti to prison on McNeil Island for white slavery related to their elopement with two Sacramento women. Diggs gets two years Caminetti eighteen months. both married, Caminetti with two children.
Mrs. Jack Wherton entered a local drug store and after others left demanded morphine. Clerk Clyde Cox complied and she fled with a full bottle. She was later arrested and taken to hospital for treatment.
John Vortak, a fisherman, was burned to death when the West Texas city jail caught fire and burned. He was imprisoned on an undisclosed charge.
March 19 report notes I. Mor gan and Mrs Mor an sailed for Europe aboard the Phil Morgan. Officials say the trip’s purpose is undisclosed though other sources suggest no special significance attached to it.
Reporting from Washington on March 9 indicates cargoes facing delays due to shipping limitations between the Philippines and other routes. The United Seacare seems strained as authorities seek to boost cargo movement and address bottlenecks.
The article promotes Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as a home and drugstore product that darkens gray hair naturally. It claims a large bottle costs about 50 cents and describes application with a sponge or brush to a strand at a time, claiming gray disappears after a couple of uses.
Tad Dorgan sits alone in a Fulton Street restaurant when a stranger bets he can tell Tad from a photo. Tad dares him to prove recognition and the man pays $10 to claim he knows the artist. The stranger turns out to be Tad himself.
A 16 foot 9 inch hemlock timber from a Congress street bridge pier was tested at RPI in Troy. After 40 years in water and subsequent drying, it withstood 384000 pounds in a 600000 pound capacity machine, yielding 2670 psi. Prof. Lawson says long immersion does not reduce column strength once timber dries.
Government records a $99.40 payment for a trespasser cut sugar pine in Stanislaus National Forest California. The felled tree yielded 18 933 board feet valued at 5.25 per thousand feet, enough lumber for a large house or a two mile wooden walk. Officers note no previous national forest tree worth as much has been felled.
Prof Aug F W Schmitz of Thomas Oklahoma reports twenty five year backache relief after using Dodd's Kidney Pills twice. He stopped treatment then resumed, using three boxes and has not suffered the severe pain again for three years.
A murky quotation shows a woman speaking with unclear dialect and missing context. The fragment mentions plans to go somewhere and a misremembered instruction about placing something beneath others.
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