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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1911
Page
2
A family scene unfolds with Marie and her aunt debating blessings and a past romance as a judge questions the situation. Marie reveals her former sweetheart is the subject of their quarrel, and tensions rise over forgiveness and lingering feelings.
State Capitol Commission tours Missouri with Carthage stone inspectors visiting ten quarries and admiring local builds. J C A Hiller notes ample Carthage stone for a capitol in every state. The group visits Webb City and Joplin then Cassville and Phoenix in Greene County before Southeast Missouri. Local option appeal case heard in Springfield court of appeals pending December ruling.
Cecil Payne 20, son of S. R. Payne of Payne's Music Mouse in Sedalia, injured during a Willis Montgomery County fair flight when engine quit at 100 feet. Plane wrecked, he suffered a broken nose and other injuries. He has a $5,000 bonus offer to set up an aeroplane factory at Miami Oklahoma and plans to retire from flying.
The full reportorial and editorial staff of the Joplin Morning Tribune resigns en masse over policy conflicts. No wage dispute involved. 47 stockholders across Jasper County allegedly interfered in news operations, leaving a former cub as city editor and now the entire staff.
Mrs Cardona Smith accuses her spouse of deception in a complex sequence after a 1904 marriage. She learned her first husband had died, remarried him, then discovered he was alive. She divorced to remarry her second husband, seeking dissolution of their marriage in a Springfield court.
John Agee, an African American man, is jailed in Jefferson City for the death of 4 year old Wilbur Wilkerson. The jury found Agee forced the child to swallow carbolic acid. A bottle of crude acid was found near the body and the stomach contents confirmed acid involvement.
Four hundred delegates attended the Missouri State Sunday School Association convention in Sedalia. Exhibits showcased Sunday school equipment from across the state with displays from the Christian Board of Publicity and Presbyterian Board of Publicity. The event concluded with the election of officers.
A plan to form an eight mile road district with Warenton as center passed 130 to 36. an adjoining district with Wright City as center also approved 80 to 3. Both districts lie on the cross state highway.
Mrs Minnie Callahan a young divorcee from Trenton was arraigned in the circuit court at Kirksville on forging a $100 check on Charles C Sykes of Hurdland. She could not meet bond and was jailed after pleading not guilty. She was brought from Ogallala Nebraska by a deputy sheriff.
Asa Heitman, age 11, pleaded with Judge Thomas P. Ryan in St. Joseph juvenile court to order reform school confinement at Boonville after theft of a bicycle. court considered returning him home.
At midnight the jury in the William Schmulbach case returned a verdict of second degree murder for the Joplin police officer William Smithy killing on November 15, 1909, and sentenced him to 30 years in the penitentiary.
A year-old boy in a farming area near Liberty opened and chewed letters from farmers, hiding the mutilated mail in a post office inspector’s box as complaints mounted about missing mail. Postmaster Ward investigated after notices of damaged correspondence came to light.
A party of American and European bankers completed a nine days inspection tour of Frisco lines. They visited new shops and properties in Springfield before continuing by a six car private train to St Louis. B F Winchell Frisco president and W C Nixon general manager accompanied the group.
Miss Evan Adams, a 15 year old girl from near Rich Hill, identified a man accused of attacking her near her home. A suspect was captured eight miles northeast of Butler by a posse amid high neighborhood sentiment.
The Gates City National Bank of Kansas City won an $11,108 verdict in Springfield against Merchants and Miners' Bank of Aurora. The award targets former director L. Rupple. suit filed in Lawrence County circuit court and moved to Springfield on venue change.
A five acre miniature model farm illustrating farming in hilly Southern Missouri terrain will be shown as a unique exhibit by the immigration department of the Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain system at the Ozark land congress in December.
William Jenny, recently escaped from the State Insane Asylum in St. Joseph, Missouri, appeared at Kansas City and shot his wife, then killed himself. Jenny had been committed a year earlier after an attack on his wife.
Officials from the Volunteers of America visited Springfield from Chicago to select a site for a community farm as a large tract of land is planned to be purchased for a camp for retired officers.
George C Papineau alias Albert G Chester claims to have worked at every Cleveland newspaper and admits to being a Chicago murder suspect and fugitive, leading to his arrest at St Joseph.
C M Dooms a Frisco freight conductor was knocked from the side of his engine by a truck on the Willow Springs station platform and decapitated. The Rev James Franklin Jones 65 president of William Woods College died at his mother’s home near Winston Salem NC after a rest trip.
James Johnson fired four shotgun blasts through a window wounding his wife as she phoned for police aid in St Joseph. He was arrested and the wife is reported in serious condition.
Howler proudly praises his wife Mrs Howler who performs There is a Garden in My Face, only for neighbors to mishear and joke about the singer as a deaf audience member fails to catch the remark. The scene captures comic embarrassment and social miscommunication at a private gathering.
A dialogue contrasts views on women's equality and suffrage. One speaker asserts constitutionally fixed roles while another notes women's enduring hardships and the possibility of gradual change, even if modest. The exchange hints at society's slow pace toward equal treatment.
The speaker Broncho Bob argues the town cannot assemble 12 unbiased jurors without sparking a fatal argument over unrelated matters. He dismisses the idea of a jury trial in the settlement context.
The exchange hints that Gladys dyed her hair yellow, with innuendo about concealing a darker shade. The dialogue suggests social scrutiny and curiosity over her appearance among peers.
A civic discussion examines marriage as a contract and the rise of contract jumpers who abandon commitments. Analysts debate rights duties and social consequences, weighing legal and moral implications for families and communities.
Four main approaches to tuberculosis care exist in the United States. Some cities such as Albany Elmira and Binghamton New York fund separate pavilions or hospitals through unions. Other cities including Hartford New Britain and South Manchester Connecticut finance care through employer and union contributed funds. There are two national sanatoria run by unions, the International Typographical Union and the Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union. Massachusets Illinois and other states see large corporations voluntaryy caring for consumptives among their workers for a limited period.
A fragment from the London Sphere presents a humorous dialogue between an Absent-Minded Professor and a young lady. They debate proper phrasing about summer flies while noting two distinct fly species and the common house fly.
The remark notes that those who seize control of property without lawful right rarely rise to wealth. It suggests caution against unlawful gains and implies integrity in resource ownership matters.
Missouri Representative James T. Lloyd quips that the presidents call for a lighter tariff rewrite lacks solid backing. He compares it to a man seeking a loan with no real pledge, needing an indorser who has money earned at poker.
An exchange between Silent Innuendo and Miss Cayenne reveals a sharp point about indirect criticism. The conversation notes that while kindness is spoken, it often carries implied reservations.
A Bronze Age man jokes about being steel and dissolving if tested. He rejoices at not living too late, savoring a lighter mood in ancient times.
Geraldine says one phone call will suffice and ends the discussion with a curt thanks.
The Journal of Commerce reports a coffee trade stir as many workers and professionals cut coffee in favor of Postum. It notes a vast drop in consumption, cites caffeine as harmful, and cites Brazilians and Americans choosing a healthful, home made drink with molasses and wheat as a substitute.
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