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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1924
Page
6
World summaries note a British labor party split impacting elections, an Ulster boundary commission invitation, and a new long range bomber under tests near Paris. Reports from Washington cite Coolidge backing disarmament, immigration limits, and a German bank issue under the Dawes plan.
Union Carbide submits a bid to Secretary Weeks offering 2 million tons of fertilizer yearly at 5 percent profit with profits split to fund cheaper production and amortization for the government. The plan includes either leasing the property or operating under government ownership with price controls.
A head on collision of two Southwest Missouri Railroad interurban cars near Lowell Kansas results in one dead and about thirty injured. Eight or ten are severely hurt as the east bound car carries sixty eight passengers and the west bound twelve. The west bound car is ripped open and catches fire. Passengers are rescued by conductors and motormen. Charles Crump, the motorman, collapses after aiding others.
The 40 000 coal miners in Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Arkansas return to work after a three year contract restoring the 1923 basic wage scale. The agreement, announced by W L A Johnson of the Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators Association, adopts the 1923 wage base with current interstate and district 1923 agreements as amended.
William Baker, 45, of Caney Kansas, died in a gas explosion on the Ratcliff base four miles north of here at noon. He leaves a widow and five children.
More than five hundred students at Milliken University in Decatur Illinois walked out after the board of managers refused to renew two instructors contracts. The action reflects escalating tensions between students and university leadership.
The fragment shows an exasperated speaker venting about telling someone something and receiving no response. It mentions a penny in a lot and obtaining no gum, indicating frustration with communication and withheld value. No clear event or formal context is present.
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