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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1911
Page
7
A sermon emphasizes Jesus caring for the marginalized and calling his followers to win others through personal abiding in Christ. It stresses using wisdom and tact, consistency, and unseen actions over words, citing scriptural guidance on living a holy life as a powerful witness.
A quotation from Rev. George E. Davies of the Presbyterian Church in St. Paul urges youths to read the flag in red for blood shed, white for purity of principles, and blue for fidelity to the nation and service to mankind both at home and abroad.
Refugees say rebels control most towns from Hankow to Shanghai with provincial troops retreating to a few cities. Wu Chang, Hankow, and Han Yang report mass killings of Manchus in the fall of these cities, regardless of age or sex.
Abilene, Junction City, Manhattan and Salina propose marking a Golden Belt road from Manhattan to Salina with aims to extend to Kansas City. They plan to mark it this fall and seek joint efforts to grade and improve it in spring. The four counties would be asked to designate it as a county road.
Officials announce the sale of reduced rate book tickets will resume and police are ordered to arrest anyone selling or detaching tickets. Tickets void if not detached in the presence of conductors. Robbers Coin Found Near Springfield Sparking Wild Digging for $3 500 Substantial Reward Mentioned.
Gov W R Stubbs faced jeers from delegates to the Woman's Home Missionary society meeting in Wichita Kansas after urging women to wield influence to purge the city of its wickedness. The gathering in session heard his remarks as he appealed for moral reform.
A Missouri Pacific freight train collided with a street car in Salina. The crew and passengers escaped injury except Mrs. John McCullough who suffered a crushed right foot and a sprained left knee. the car was wrecked.
The new Masonic temple in Abilene Kansas was dedicated with formal ceremonies led by Alexander Sharp grand master of Masons in Kansas and his staff.
From Hankow comes a report the revolutionary government in China orders Hankow and Wu Chang residents to cut their queues by October 22. Short hair marks Chinese revolutionists and those who resist face beheading, according to a Chinese paper editor.
Gov. Lee Cruce granted a reprieve to Frank Edwards, sentenced to hang in Wewoka for the murder of W. B. Gray, until January 12. The delay allows a gubernatorial sanity committee to extend its examination.
Sioux City Iowa report says motor driver Billy Pearce was killed instantly when his car crashed into the fence during a speed trial at Woodland track. Authorities investigate the fatal accident and identify Pearce as the driver.
Joplin Missouri. H K Schars a Webb City man and Joplin representative of C E Matthews Lumber company has disappeared and his prolonged absence is viewed as indicating he has met with some misadventure or foul play in the region surrounding Joplin and Webb City.
Eugene Ely, noted aviator, was killed when his craft fell during a flight at the Macon fair grounds. He had just lifted off and was making a celebratory turn over the crowd.
Mrs Carrie Jayne McFarland of Port Lavaca seeks news of her brother William Love Brown who vanished as a twelve year old when Comanche Indians carried him from the Austin area in 1842. She has appealed to Indian agents and Kiowa and Comanche missionaries for information, with no results to date. The story recalls the 1842 raid that left Amos injured and the father and Hoskins killed, and notes the family’s decades of searching.
Mrs. Inez Lewis of Baring recounts severe eczema starting at four months and spreading to the face and body. After using Hood's Sarsaparilla the infant improved in months and is now healthy. The ad promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy for blood diseases and general buildup available in liquid or chocolate tablet form.
Farmers store vegetables in September to sell later by building clamps on high ground. Potatoes beet root carrots and turnips are heaped into elongated cones with straw base and sides then covered with straw and earth or tufts. Straw insulates against frost and damp, making a frost proof clamp.
An advertisement urges readers to test for weak kidneys via back pain or kidney secretions and promotes Doan's Kidney Pills as a remedy. A testimonial from Mrs. J. L. Warrick of Lebanon Ohio details relief after six weeks, praising the product and noting its price as 50 cents per box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A humorous note from Lippincott's recalls a child’s takeaway from Sunday school. Lottie said God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh, reflecting a misheard lesson in playful terms.
Superintendent Chimner of the city water and light plant in Forrest City Arkansas devised a patent starter to wake a Missouri mule used for hauling. A small electric battery wired from the head stall to the bit and tail allows the wagon to start with a flip of a switch. He has applied for patents, and colleagues debate whether he is a genius or a menace to the town.
In New Orleans a molasses spill from a burst storage tank released about 600000 gallons into the streets and sewers. The viscous flood drifted into Lake Pontchartrain killing millions of fish and shrimp as a 2 percent sugar solution stretched across the surface.
A handmade cigar wrapped in oil to stay fresh till smoked. The Lewis Single Binder uses higher quality tobacco and costs dealers more than typical six cent cigars, with emphasis on avoiding imitations and insisting on the Lewis brand.
A candlewick worn around the leg near the garter is claimed to prevent calf and foot cramps, with personal experience cited. The method is suggested to help swimmers' cramp, and cotton batting wrapped around the body from the armpits downward is said to have saved a painter from agony.
A lighthearted exchange prompts a local council to weigh a motto suggestion for drivers. The quip Wrecks to the reckless appears to humorously frame road safety and accountability.
Pills and cures advertised claim to regulate stomach liver and bowels with Dr Pierce pellets described as tasty candy like. Mrs Winston's Soothing Syrup for Children touted to ease teething inflammation reduce pain and relieve wind colic priced at utility.
A man placed a nesting grubs in a kitchen oven to kill them for bait. He found the oven only warmed and a swarm of wasps erupted as he opened the door, failing to kill the grubs but warming them enough to batch.
The article notes that butterfly colors are influenced by the air temperature they inhabit. It also presents a reflective line about a man not needing much knowledge to know how little he knows.
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