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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1915
Page
2
World war brief notes battles near Paris and Gallipoli. reports of Russian retreats in Hungary. Allied bombardment of Turkish fortifications. Lusitania tragedy prompts calls for restraint. US and European leaders debate naval strategy and peace efforts while civilian fear grows.
Washington notes to Germany urge disavowal of acts at sea after the Lusitania sinking. It calls for reparations and steps to prevent recurrence, affirming U S citizens may seek legal business on merchant ships and that the government will safeguard their rights.
John D. Rockefeller obtained a federal injunction preventing Cuyahoga county from collecting taxes on 311000000 worth of intangible property and a 1500000 tax levy. Judge Clark granted the order after nineteen pages of reasoning, on a suit filed in Cleveland Ohio.
A brief item notes ships from Germany involved in wartime movements around New York on May 14 with limited readable details.
A highly unreadable OCR excerpt presents no clear names events or places. The text lacks coherent sentences or identifiable entities to summarize into a factual card.
Annual meeting set in Columbia during journalism week with potential more frequent gatherings proposed by executive committee. Appointments include Lee Shippey, Mrs Alice Mary Kimball, Godfrey, Robertus Love, and others. twenty four active and nine associate members enrolled. admission requires a book or three magazine publications.
Frank Ottory, attorney for James Campbell relatives, says no new trial or appeal will be sought after the verdict on Lois Campbell Burkham’s parentage. The jury ruled she is Campbell’s daughter, affecting estate division if the will is invalid. judge dismissed the suit to set aside the will as Ottory contemplated possible future suit for nonparticipants.
The Travelers' Protective Association held its twenty sixth annual convention in Moberly with Joplin named as next meeting site. E E B Pagerman of St Louis was elected president and state directors include James A Conlon Frank Hage Barney Ehmer John N Seharf J A Lewiston Otto Boellner H M Owsley EH Wright R B Comer George W Steffens W E Hepburn and EB W Sose of St Louis endorsed for national directors.
The Old Gobbier zinc mine twenty miles east of Carthage, once owned by Frank Rockefeller, is now successfully operated by Mrs. Sarah Mattlack after previous abandonment. Rockefeller reportedly bought the property for ore, spent about $6,000 developing it, and later gave up on the venture.
Col Daniel N. a Greene County born resident and the first white child born in Greene County Missouri died recently in Olvey Arkansas. He was 85 years old.
Elberta peach district of southern Missouri is expected to yield the largest crop in years this season. Peach expert Paul Ivana, director of the Missouri fruit experimental station at Mountain Grove, reports a careful survey of state orchards supports the prediction.
The obituary notes the death of Gedalia Contractor aged 72. He is survived by a widow and a daughter. No other family details are provided in the readable text.
Fragmentary text shows Brookfield and Antwerp connected to veterinary actions and a patient named Serdar. Limited readable names suggest medical or veterinary context with a focus on a local event or treatment.
Del and Dave Tangu of Gower Missouri, both 70, appeared at Kansas City Stock Yards buying two carloads of cattle of identical quality. The brothers, lifelong twins, staged identical movements and wore similar attire as they shopped and wrote separate personal checks.
A semi official Richmond notice states within two years Ray county will see construction of a new railroad by Chicago Burlington and Quincy from Mexico Missouri to St Joseph covering about 200 miles. Construction begins within eighteen months and the line will pass thirteen miles northeast of Richmond opening rich coal fields and new agricultural areas. The Burlington company has long pursued slow grade trunk lines from Billings Montana to Paducah Kentucky with a link from Wendover Junction Wyoming to Denver and a connection at Lincoln Nebraska to the main Chicago route.
Miners working in properties producing high grade ores have received a raise of 26 cents a day. The wage increase applies to men employed in the Joplin district and Carterville area, benefiting several thousand miners with higher pay.
A committee was named to select a new play for more than 1,000 children. The group was formed after a motor bus incident involving a vehicle carrying twenty one people near a church.
Seventy per cent of Migcourt corp land has been planted per the state agriculture report. The document notes 80 percent for certain regions and mentions Deconatica and Wellerville context. A separate line indicates Meretary? Pete Insenet- and related county figures appear.
An OCR damaged composite notes various ads and lines about Thad Mayr's Remedy, Allen's Foot-Ease, and a few stray phrases on reputation, federal forces, and India's cotton crop. Readable items include medical cure claims, foot care product promotion, and a jumbled historical context.
A fragment promotes a medicine with the prompt to try it after two long years of suffering. The text appears as an old advertisement style tagline without clear names or institutions.
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