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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1912
Page
7
A Princeton Theological Seminary professor extols temper as key to home happiness and Christian grace. He urges kindness, truth seeking, avoiding gossip, forgiving others, and testing reports while guarding reputation and character in daily life.
Chicago afternoon papers largely failed to print due to a dispute between the Chicago Newspaper Web Pressmen's Union No. 7 and the Chicago local of the American Newspapers Publishers association. The strike arose after Hearst contracts expired April 30 and the union demanded a separate agreement, which Hearst management refused, leading to the stoppage.
A special grand jury in Fort Smith Arkansas indicted eighteen people on twenty three counts for the March 23 lynching of Sanford Lewis. Six former police officers face charges and twelve indictments allege first degree murder. two suspects remain jailed and others bonded for nonfeasance. The report clears Lewis in the death of Constable Andy Carr and indicts John B Williams for involuntary manslaughter.
A devastating tornado and cloudburst sweep through southwestern Texas and northern Mexico killing twenty in San Antonio area and ten in Laredo. Reports list Grover Nye and an unidentified woman among the dead with multiple children and Mexican nationals. Over 100 houses destroyed, crops ruined, property damage in the thousands.
A distracted husband, shopping for his wife, asks for a sample of left-hand pockets. After a mistaken exchange with a polite clerk, he discovers only a ribbon sample in his left pocket as bystanders laugh at the comic misunderstanding.
Two former classmates, now with contrasting fortunes, encounter outside the Superior arcade. One, prosperous, is a banker. the other, thinner and seedy, proclaims being an actor. They recall a long past in theater and banking. The brief exchange underscores divergent paths since school.
In Junction City Kansas a record shipment of six silos arrived this week, believed to be the largest ever sent to a Kansas town. The silos, made of selected Oregon fir, are being erected by experienced crews. Two weeks earlier five silos were delivered and installed in the Gfel ler neighborhood near Upland.
The National Association lauds New Jersey’s new tuberculosis law enacted by the legislature and signed by Governor Wilson. It requires compulsory segregation of patients who refuse health regulations, with courts enforcing confinement in designated institutions. Counties must establish facilities within six months, with state subsidies of three dollars weekly per patient.
Mrs Noble Tubman of Dodson Montana reports her six month old baby suffered six weeks with widespread itchy burning sores hair loss and nails falling off before Cuticura Soap and Ointment brought rapid improvement and full cure in six weeks. Sample requests offered by Cuticura Dept L Boston.
Representative Rucker of Colorado vents about a tariff dispute, saying those men miss his point. A Washington reporter recounts a quip about elephants required for making piano keys and billiard balls, prompting a humorous exchange with an old lady.
An economist warns of a paternal drift while a suffragette corrects him to a maternal form. The Raxton Toilet Co of Boston offers a free trial box of Paxtine Antiseptic to women upon request, promising cleansing and germicidal benefits.
The text mixes stage dialogue about a college student and a judge with mock advertisements for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup and Garfield Tea. A comment on drama criticism appears from the gallery. Includes casual references to independence and domestic abuse in a dated, satirical tone.
A brief dialogue shows a beggar begging for help from an old lady as he cites hungry children and a wife left without entertainment for a week, highlighting a stark social moment.
In Berlin the Reichstag voiced strong outrage over the death of Lieutenant Springer at Rastatt after a duel with Surgeon Bruning. A bill to make dueling a penal offense was introduced and public sentiment is seen as likely to drive its passage.
Rome reports the first sustained offensive use of dirigibles in warfare near Azisiah in Tripoli. Two airships dropped thirty bombs, wiping out the enemy camp with heavy casualties described by the Italian commander. Turks struggled to hit the airships with field pieces, but failed.
A determined woman interrupts proceedings claiming the jury of women will bias the trial of John Henry Pilkerson. She demands he be removed from the chair and kept at home until a fair jury can be assembled.
Aunt Beulah scolds herself for overzealous cleaning causing lumbago and gouty grips. Her sister suggests a maid, but Beulah prefers pain to dust. The Smart Little Boy interjects, remarking that she already has the pain.
Suffering women are invited to write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass for confidential correspondence. A woman will read and answer, offering private illness discussion and guidance. The ad promotes an 80 page text book as part of the offer.
A comical vignette follows Lilie Wile an embryo electrician who fixates on a mother’s gray gown trimmed with black buttons. Willie admires the dress noting its push buttons and exclaims to his mother in a Judge sourced tone.
Henderson Kentucky report says the mine engineer in Clay pushed the cage up quickly believing he was hoisting coal and dropped miner Ben Bentley to the shaft bottom killing him. The tragedy highlights safety lapses at the clay mine.
Dialogue contrasts a patient husband with a man awaiting a fishing chance. The wife notes his irritability while he waits for hours for fish to nibble at his bait. The scene highlights quiet frustration and endurance in a simple fishing outing.
A passerby learns quick adaption to American style as a new citizen with a straw hat and trunk on Broadway. A dialogue about marriage hints at social customs and mistakes. The snippet mentions garbled advice, humorous misreading of events, and sidelong product notes about Garfield Tea and a dubious hot air treatment for finances.
Beatrice Nebraska ends a year of dryness as seven saloons open. City commissioners cap licenses at seven and set a fee of 1.80 dollars each.
Mrs Dooley voices a plan to take twelve children back to Ireland and get twelve tickets for the price of eleven. Mrs Murphy-Faith notes a large family is a strong saving for a person.
Mrs Newlywed asks if a wife watches her husband constantly. Mrs Oldwed replies she guards him only from night to morning. The judge remains silent on the joke while the room reacts with implied humor.
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