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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1923
Page
2
Mary Dudderidge and St Nicholas Magazine describe the hermit crab as a strange sea creature. Lacking armor, he steals shells from others, fights to defend a home, and may exchange shells or move repeatedly until satisfied.
After years of rising immigrant flows from Europe, last year saw more women than men admitted for the first time. Many women join factories or remain without occupation while households seek workers, and limited skilled training persists for both genders amid a shrinking laborer influx.
Feldspar deposits in the United States see rising exploitation due to wide use in pottery enamelware enamel brick and electric ware. It binds emery wheels aids opalescent glass and artificial teeth and features in soaps and window washes. Pottery grade feldspar must be nearly iron free.
A female pirate has appeared on the river at Hong Kong alarming shipowners and crews. She speaks English, wears a serge costume and Wellington boots, and carries a heavy revolver forcing captains to surrender. She commands about twenty Chinese aiding her in plundering vessels.
Sherman Illinois reports progress on the Illinois Waterway project under Governor Small. Bids for a Lockport lock and for steel gates were received as part of a five lock plan from Lockport to Utica. The Marseilles lock is near completion with gates and machinery. Starved Rock bids were below estimates. The plan aims to connect the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers to Chicago Sanitary District channel, creating a navigable waterway from New Orleans to Chicago with substantial tonnage capacity and power potential.
A Vandalia Greenville road fort story recounts Hill's fort attacked by Indians. Lindley, outside the stockade, rode a fleeing steer to escape arrows as the herd bolted toward the woods. He hid, then slipped away under the steer and sheltered in the woods until night.
The frontier yarn credits Davy Crockett with a famed coon hunt encounter but origins point to Captain Martin Scott of Bennin Vermont. Scott's rifle prowess with Old Betsy outshines Crockett in early legend, including a dramatic shot sequence at Lake Bonaparte and later service in the Mexican War.
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