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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1913
Page
6
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President Wilson and Postmaster General Burleson aim to bring all second and third class postmasters into the classified service with fourth class offices nearly covered. The tariff bill advances with Schedule 6 the food products basket passing the house. no hearings set by the Senate Finance Committee. Gompers Mor rison and Mitchell penalties upheld with revised sentences.
State Game Warden Jesse A. Tolerton sends deputies to the scene as the Forsythe dam’s fish ladder fails. Thousands of migrating game fish halt above the dam while crowds fish them by the hundreds, with many bass hooked for farmers. Deputies will lift fish over the dam to reach spawning beds. Ozark sportsmen groups will aid.
Wallace Demory shot and killed Noah Stroup and Everett Skinner and then killed himself at Danforth after a land ownership dispute. Both Demory and Stroup held deeds. Skinner backed Stroup. The feud escalated after Demory dropped a disturbed-peace case, prompting Stroup to file charges before the fatal confrontation.
General John Will Hall, commander of the Missouri Confederate Veterans, appoints a women’s staff to attend the Tennessee Chattanooga reunion May 26 to 29. Chaperone Mrs John W Black from Kansas City matron Mrs Allen L Porter also of Kansas City sponsor Miss Mildred Martin Odessa maids of honor Miss Alverda Campbell and Miss Pauline Jenkins Kansas City Miss Hazel Price Glasgow Miss Anita Ledeller Sanders Webster Grove Miss Emory Todhunter Lexington.
Hannibal residents view the closing of the Palmyra Creek gap as history and incidentally the formation of the city’s largest sewer district. The site once known for Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer wading and damming the spring is now transformed into a major sewer project.
A ten day drive in St. Joseph raised 123250.60 toward a 150000 goal for a Young Women's Christian Association building. Organizers expect a deficit will be covered by donors not yet approached.
A neighborhood feud over the location and name of a country school house led to a fight in which Lee Duncan shot and killed his uncle 8. F. Duncan and was perhaps fatally wounded. The Duncans are farmers ten miles east of Carthage.
Cc E Crane former Windsor schools head was chosen to lead Boonville schools succeeding M A O rear who moves to the state normal at Springfield.
Boyd Clatterbuck a 36 year old well known stockman of Callaway County is dead at his Guthrie area home. Authorities reported no immediate cause and investigation is underway with relatives notified.
H. H. Claude, appointed farm adviser of Marion county, encouraged local boys to join state and county corn growing contests as a way to promote farming interest.
In a special election Monroe City voters approved a $78,000 bond for water works and sewerage projects. The tally was 320 in favor and 119 against.
Uncle Dan Potter of Missouri marks his 104th year at home near Dadeville with family reunions and old country dances. He gardened diligently, rose to a horse ride at 100, and credits long life to cheerfulness despite not pledging temperance. Born in Kentucky, he moved to the Ozarks at 22 and now lives with his second wife, 64 years his junior.
R A Long of Kansas City paid Paul Brown ten thousand dollars for the saddle stallion My Major Dare, bought from Presley Bayer of Bowling Green Kentucky for six thousand five hundred dollars. Gingerbread Man and all saddle brood mares and geldings accompanying the stallion join the Long stock farm near Kansas City. The total value of the sale reached sixteen thousand dollars.
The State League of Missouri Municipalities at Sedalia adopted a resolution urging state and municipal governments to insure property under a state insurance department. It also asked Congress to investigate the fire insurance trust and monopoly.
Maryville plans to spend 10000 to preserve a landmark water tower atop a town eminence. The city has used the tank charity for fifteen years, fearing collapse, as it replaces the Maryville water works with new pumps, extended mains, and a filtration system.
The University of Missouri plans an earlier commencement this year with many final exams after the ceremony. For the first time students will stay for the exercises, and alumni are invited back to watch the seniors graduate as department stunts are grouped into commencement week.
The Drury college graduating class honors are announced with Ruth Thomas of Springfield named valedictorian and Dorothy Huff of Farmington as salutatorian. George P. Ryan of Springfield is elected commencement orator. Exercises are scheduled for June 5.
Eight year old Ernest Hockensmith, son of Ray Hockensmith, died when he grabbed a rope attached to a hosecart returning from a fire and was struck in Gallatin by the cart hauled behind a dray.
John E Clark a Warrensburg druggist for twenty seven years and organizer of the Missouri Pharmaceutical Association died at his home. Born in Chamois Mo he had lived in Warrensburg since 1864. W A Durham of Sedalia announces resignation as assistant general manager of the Missouri Kansas Texas Railway effective May 1 for a six month rest after over twenty five years with Katy.
M E Kinney chairman of the legislative commission issues a call to members for a minimum wage investigation to start in St Louis on May 15.
The Underwood Tariff bill passed the House 281 to 139 as Democrats celebrate. Four Progressives supported it and fourteen opposed it, with one Independent Progressive in support. Key votes came from Mann and Murdock leadership, while sugar reductions drew Republican and Democratic opposition.
Governor Folk in Jefferson City says fire insurers suspended in Missouri will reopen within ten days. Chicago attorney Thomas Bates will urge companies to resume under Barker's terms allowing shared rates for similar risks without fixed rate agreements. If adopted two weeks ago, they would avoid Supreme Court anti trust charges.
Albany reports Governor Sulzer says Colonel Roosevelt will stump for a direct primary law during next month’s special session, aiding the effort to put through the legislation.
Former United States Senator Frank O Briggs is dead at his home in Trenton New Jersey. He served in the Senate and was a notable figure in early 20th century politics. The obituary notes his residence and demise in the city.
Leavenworth Kansas report links Henry Lee Moore, serving a life term in Missouri, to 25 ax murders across Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Iowa, and Illinois. Special Agent M W Mc Cloughry of the Department of Justice asserts the cases share strikingly similar evidence. He notes McClaughry is the son of the local warden and heads the bureau of criminal identifications at the penitentiary.
Mrs. Laura M. Reuter who faced trial for her husband Charles T. Reuters murder in Bartlesville was moved to a Tulsa hospital for an appendicitis operation.
A troop train carrying about 250 federal soldiers was blown up by dynamite near the Sonora Coahuila border, killing most aboard. The disaster occurred as the train neared Nogales, Arizona.
Chairman Underwood of the way and means committee spoke at a Washington luncheon about tax revision and heedful timing. A long anecdote followed contrasting old wet plate photography with a sitter who moved during a long exposure and missed the shot
Rev E Heslop of Wigton Pa suffered dropsy for a year with swollen limbs heart fluttering dizziness and fatigue. After using 5 boxes of Dodds Kidney Pills swelling disappeared and he felt well again. He remains faithful to the remedy and invites correspondence about Dodds Kidney Pills 50c per box from Dodds Medicine Co Buffalo NY and free household hints music and recipes ad accompanying offer.
A brief reflection notes that a satisfactory husband values heft or feigns appreciation, implying social expectations about perception and truth in domestic life. The line frames judgment of worth through material or outward signs rather than intrinsic qualities.
The remark credits a church loafer with timely aid, implying without his help the devil would be lame in both legs long ago. The line reflects a humorous, critical dig at religious figures and their influence.
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