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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1908
Page
3
In Kemah county court scenes the pursuit of Williston dominates days of trial, while Gordon fights to keep his case alive. Langford pressurizes justice as Mary and Louise navigate trust, danger, and loyalties in a tense frontier backdrop.
A St Louis resident, Mr Brendel, completed a home built electric lighting plant in his Union boulevard yard. A four horsepower engine and generator power the house and a tenant home with lighting and small appliance use. Mrs Brendel is chief engineer and Mrs Louis Daniels assists. The project cost about 400 dollars, with lighting about ten cents per night for ten lamps.
A sermonette argues that sin stains all, leprosy as metaphor for sin, and only God’s remedy through Jesus blood cleanses. It stresses that worldly self help cannot cure, and believers must guide others to salvation, citing Naaman and the Israelite king as examples of faith and obedience.
A hidden Hebrew maid in Naaman’s household recalls her home in Israel as the great general returns cured of leprosy. She longs to join him on his journey, while the household rejoices and Naaman’s wife anxiously seeks the nurse who spoke of his healing.
Dr. Marago of Parla Ix photographs the human voice with a magnifying glass to read talking records. Scientists believe voice photographs may replace writing and stenography, with microphones replacing letters and electric needles preventing forgery. Books would use vowels and consonants imitated in type, and phone talks would be binding like contracts.
Consul newman sorwon of Cnem alis reports that by the Slaby Arco wireless telegraphy system about 1,000 words were recently telegraphed from the trial station at Nauen near Berlin to the Austrian military station at Kornenberg near Vienna a distance of about 272 miles. He adds that this is the record result thus far in the use of the system for over one year.
The government stands as the nation’s largest single buyer of electric lamps. It orders 850000 units early in the cycle, underscoring its procurement heft and influence on the market.
Rudolph M. Anderson of Blows Military Academy leaves Macon for York to join the American Museum of Natural History. He will lead an expedition to locate and study a lost Eskimo tribe on a small Arctic island, with native northerners accompanying. The goal is to document language, customs, hunting, and worship while bringing back members and artifacts, a voyage two years in planning and fraught with danger.
Mainland explorers plan a northern journey by ship and river to Herschel Island and Copper Mine river mouth. They aim to meet a little known tribe, study their way of life, religion, and warfare for a global museum exhibit.
G K Holmes of the Department of Agriculture notes autos have displaced about 60 000 race horses in the nation to date. He adds farm horses are in peak demand, with 19 992 000 in use on January 1 1908, reflecting a strong shift over the past two to four years.
A new canine salon on a stylish London thoroughfare offers hair pressing, coat trimming, baths, and dental work for dogs. For three shillings a month owners can have pets groomed and treated, with nails trimmed for a refined appearance.
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