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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1913
Page
2
A condensed roundup presents varied items from around the world for readers. It highlights notable happenings, curiosities, and brief news bits in a quick, readable format suitable for busy schedules.
Reports show conferences with Mexican constitutionalist chiefs ending abruptly after General Carranza refused to answer questions and demand for Hale to present credentials. The piece notes Wilson's currency bill progress, a Navy and weather bureau dispute, a Navajo encampment defying arrest, and various violent incidents across the country including murders, mining explosions, and train robberies.
L. A. Halbert of Kansas City was elected president of the Missouri State Conference of Charities and Corrections at St Joseph. Oscar Leonard of St Louis reelected secretary treasurer. Rabbi Louis Bernstein of St Joseph named executive committee chairman. Nan Sperry urged minimum wage for women, noting Kansas City figures of 6 dollars weekly and cost of living. A Sidney Johnston pressed statewide factory inspections. W B Wood urged stronger child labor laws and widows pensions. Dinner ended with Acting Governor W R Painter as speaker.
North Central Missouri counties plan to spend up to 200000 for corn this fall with Callaway County alone forecast to spend about 100000. Feeders operate with hybrids on fattening pens and about 1500 feeding mules on hand. Cattle shipments from St Louis Kansas City and South Missouri have arrived for feeding. Vandalia feeders have spent over 20000 on corn as 25 carloads averaging 1000 bushels each arrive at 80 cents per bushel.
Word from the Carnegie Corporation confirms Bolivar citizens will receive an $8,000 library building. The city must provide a suitable site and agree to maintain the library.
Ray, chief clerk in the insurance department at Jefferson City, travels to Springfield arranging the first of a series of fire prevention meetings to be held statewide in the coming months. Governor Major and several state officials are slated to attend and speak.
Pres ton T. Aker, 48, former cashier of Farmers' bank of Smithville, pleaded guilty before Judge Frank Devilbiss at Liberty to three counts of forgery and embezzlement. Six years in prison looms as the other counts were dismissed.
More than 2,000 corn displays highlight the fifth annual Jasper county boys show at Carthage. The exhibit quality is high and the wide range of entries is seen as remarkable given growing season conditions.
Michael Doyle aged 80, who brought Hannibal its first electric street cars, died in Hannibal from a paralytic stroke. Born in Carlow Ireland, he settled in Hannibal before the Civil War.
Patrick McEnroe a native of Ireland and long time Sedalia resident died there recently at age 95 He never married and once served as general roadmaster for the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railways in his career.
Benjamin Nichol is acquitted at a preliminary hearing in Mount Vernon on the murder charge linked to A. T. Bezoni. Bezoni’s body was found in a com shock near Mount Vernon four weeks earlier.
Oil dealers in Missouri react to Standard Oil Company of Indiana reentry with price cuts on kerosene and gasoline. The Standard lowers kerosene nine to seven cents and gasoline seventeen and a half to fourteen and a half cents per gallon. Crude oil prices rise to 1.03 a barrel, about five cents a gallon, prompting fears small independents cannot survive.
Governor Major announced at the City Club in St. Louis a plan to display 100 moving picture reels of Missouri at the Panama-Pacific exposition. He pledged no cost to cities or the state and said all shows would be free. He credited August good roads days with bringing extensive free publicity, noting 830 editorials from papers worldwide.
The third international egg laying contest will be held by the Missouri state poultry experiment station at Mountain Grove starting in December. Pens from twenty five states, Canada, England, Australia, Germany, New Zealand and South Africa are expected to enter.
About twenty six members of a University of Missouri law class struck class in protest when Professor Charles Burdick insisted on a quiz. After questions were distributed the students left, and Burdick gave each a failure grade and reported the incident to the university discipline committee.
Miss Josie Barkley 25 of St. Joseph, famed for sleeping seven days years ago, again dropped asleep at a candy factory. Doctors could not guess when she would awaken, noting the unusual pattern and uncertain prognosis.
At the annual meeting in St. Joseph Dr. J H George of Kansas City, superintendent of the Jackson county home, argued that feeding inmates once a day suffices and that excess meat is harmful.
A thief snatched items from Mrs. Marian Wharton’s handbag during a club meeting in a church study room. The unseen culprit took trinkets jewelry and between 15 and 20 dollars.
Robert W. Cooper a Howard County farmer was near an old tobacco press when timbers collapsed striking him on the head and crushing his skull. A hired cow accompanied him at the scene.
John Graves of Glover township Johnson county hunted on Blackwater and shot a gigantic gray eagle seven feet from wingtip to wingtip. The incident notes the remarkable wingspan and the hunter's achievement.
A fire at Mrs. D. J. Frame’s millinery shop in Bevier destroyed the building and stock, plus an adjoining dwelling, causing an estimated property loss of 5000 dollars. No injuries reported.
A federal grand jury in Kansas City has returned indictments against eight men charged with land fraud schemes. The men are accused of schemes to misrepresent land ownership titles and seize properties through fraudulent acts and false documents. Prosecutors say the defendants used forged deeds and deceptive transfers to gain control of properties. Authorities declined further comment while pursuing court proceedings.
A federal grand jury returned eighty indictments against Richard Betles and seven others for misuse of the mails and conspiracy tied to the Florida Fruit Lands Company. Indictments detail large sums taken, waterlogged land sold as crops, and exhaustive testimony from witnesses nationwide.
President Huerta opened the new Mexican congress with a terse message explaining why the old assembly was dissolved. He cited sedition charges against many former members now imprisoned and suggested guidance for current congressmen through his admonition.
Oral testimony in the IC C receivership inquiry closed with the St Louis Union Trust Company filing the names of 99 syndicate members. They profited about 3 million dollars in the St Louis Brownsville and Mexico Railroad promotion and sale to the Frisco, plus 375000 dollars on New Orleans Texas and Mexico sale, totaling 7 403 000 dollars in syndicate profits.
The Masonic grand lodge of Arkansas adopts a resolution making it a Masonic offense for any member to sign a petition for a saloon license or to circulate such a petition in Little Rock Arkansas.
About 200 Converse College students in Spartanburg resumed lunch after a hunger strike at dinner protesting meal quality and food service.
Strong yields across wheat oats barley and flax mark a standout Western Canada harvest. Traders note per acre wheat averages around forty bushels with 65 pound bushels, oats heavy from fifty to one hundred fifteen, and flax improving despite winds. Stories from Battleford and Saskatchewan show farmers gaining financial freedom through mixed farming and large scale operations, with thousands of settlers arriving to farm this year.
Snippet recalls a marriage described as love between a young heiress and a foreign nobleman. The exchange hints the nobleman sought wealth, suggesting motive behind the union.
The Rev. Edmund Heslop of Wigton Pennsylvania suffered dropsy for a year with swollen limbs, heart flutter, dizziness, and fatigue. After using six boxes of Dodds Kidney Pills the swelling subsided and he felt renewed. He confirms ongoing benefit and invites correspondence with Heslop about the remedy. The ad notes 60 cents per box and lists Buffalo New York as the supplier.
A fragment notes Dean’s Mentholated to heal an inflamed condition and advises proper piano placement to avoid dampness and drafts in rooms. The terse items suggest medicinal marketing and household guidance from an older period.
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