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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1909
Page
2
Condensed items from multiple regions highlight notable events and developments for readers in brief items. The column gathers diverse topics, presenting a snapshot of world happenings with concise notes.
The Brussels observatory received a Lerwick dated telegram from Dr. Frederick Cook claiming April 21 1908 North Pole reach. U S officials doubtless believe dispatch authentic. the flag at the pole by an American possibly confirmed.
Reports indicate peroxide groups are gathering a fund of 50000 dollars to be used in defense of millers prosecuted by the government. The item appears among various national notes including crop estimates and accidents.
Reports say Wilbur Glenn Voliva, successor to John Dowie at Zion City, has been jailed for failure to pay a judgment. The item also notes various other regional concerns from Seattle to Kansas and international aviation honors in France.
Former shah of Persia blames Russia and England for his downfall in a dialogue with a St. Petersburg correspondent. Japan’s commercial commissioners arrive in Alaska for the exposition and are hosted at dinner by Hajime Ota. Denver food and dairy leaders push for tougher pure food laws nationwide. Henry Farman wins Rheims air endurance with 111.78 miles in four hours 14 minutes. H L Wilson to succeed D E Thompson as ambassador to Mexico. Monterey Mexico fears famine as floods disrupt rail, leaving 15 000 homeless, 1 200 dead, $12 million in damage. Bolivia asks Peru’s Polo to pause boundary talks. Abdul Hamid remains critically ill in Salonica. The Letter Carriers Association holds its seventeenth annual convention in St Paul. A minor tremor rattles Panama Canal areas.
Missouri notes rural school decline as J Kelley Wright Boone county superintendent warns of decline in country churches and one room schools. Roads aid farmers but draw students to town schools shrinking rural education. Two years ago 2 Boone county teachers, last year 42. Also report on dynamite cap accident in South Joplin injuring three children, with serious injuries to Johnny Kirk Scott Hackelman and Roby Hackelman.
A Rock Island passenger train returning visitors from the state fair struck a packed Fort Des Moines street car at First and Rock Island crossing. Two were killed and 11 seriously injured as the car was crushed and dragged 50 feet onto the engine cowcatcher. Ambulances rushed victims to city hospitals amid fears another collision with a second train.
The Missouri Federation of Labor meets in an annual convention in Joplin beginning September 2024. Union men plan a rousing time with an arrangements committee at work and great plans for entertaining delegates. Prominent labor leaders from many states have been invited to attend the gathering promises to be notable.
The Rev James D Evans of Sturgeon aged 60 received Boone county first hunting license under the new law. It allows hunting in Boone and adjoining counties for $1 and $5 for state wide hunts. Hunters must keep a strict count of game and report to the state game and fish warden in Jefferson City yearly.
N. E. Crawford a 74 year old man dies suddenly at Polo. Three hours earlier his granddaughter Crystal Shackelford aged 15 died at his home. They had been inseparable companions. Crystal died at 6 o clock and three hours later Mr. Crawford died in the yard. The two were buried in the same grave.
A five member board selected Springfield as the site for the Missouri State Pythian home. Springfield offered a 52 acre tract valued at $15,000 with street car extension and free water and lighting for three years. The home will cost $160,000 to build.
Post office authorities report letters removed and destroyed from rural boxes near Rushville. The missing mail carried return requests for W. B. Pistole a St. Joseph attorney hired to oppose saloon licensing in Rushville and Winthrop. Some recipients found fragments near their mail boxes.
John A. Gentry, a Hughesville farmer in Pettis county, raised 15 acres of oats this season yielding 90 bushels per acre. The figure is described as the largest oats yield ever known in Missouri, marking a notable agricultural record.
The Lexingtonian appears in Lexington edited by Glover Branch. The paper proclaims Republican politics but aims to be a genuine newspaper. Branch is noted as author of the Nine-foot sheet hotel regulation bill and piloted it through the last legislature.
A majority of Columbia boarding house keepers met and formed an iron bound association to boost prices for University of Missouri students next fall. Mrs J S Branham of 707 Hilt street, who runs an exclusive boarding house for university women, was elected president of the association.
The injunction case by Kansas Attorney General Fred S. Jackson against 150 firms at the Kansas City Stock Yards opens before Judge I C True in Wyandotte County. The firms are accused of forming the Traders' Live Stock Exchange to restrain trade. Arguments likely finish Friday as the hearing continues for several days.
A Springfield stationary engineer has worked every weekday and Sunday for 16 years with only a six week illness, surpassing the late Russell Sage in continuous labor without a vacation.
Walter S. Eddington a barber was discharged in the Springfield criminal court of felonious assault with intent to kill after pleading the unwritten law. He shot and dangerously wounded R M Sellers who he found talking to Mrs Eddington in a department store rest room.
The crop reporting board reports the average condition of the cotton crop on August 25 at 64.7 percent of a normal. Comparisons show declines from a month ago and year ago with regional readings from Texas 59 and Oklahoma 56 to Louisiana 48 and Alabama 66, Mississippi 61, and Eastern states 73 to 75.
Hickman J. Wigginton buys out partner W P Conger to become sole editor and proprietor of the Linneus Bulletin. Conger relocates to operate a newspaper in Nez Perce Idaho.
D C Buell and G W Seivers, appointed earlier by Edward H Harriman, have opened a technical school to instruct Union Pacific railway employees. The program aims to provide formal training and practical skills for railroad service.
James Monroe, held on a statutory charge in Carrollton county jail, escaped by digging through brick walls using a case knife and a small iron piece as a hammer.
The two year old daughter of Charles Hunt died at a St Joseph hospital from roasting coffee grains swallowed. One grain lodged in her throat.
Ebin Reynolds, regular jury panel member in Macon circuit court, refuses to qualify as a juror in a murder trial over opposition to taking a life though the law and evidence justify the case. Reynolds served as a soldier under Gen. Price.
King Robertson, long time resident of Joplin, died there recently after living on the site for 72 years. His parents moved to the area when he was six months old, and he grew up as the country remained a frontier.
The grand lodge gathering of the United Brothers of Friends drew over 500 leaders from the state and officers from other states. State delegates’ report to the recent national convention in St Paul was endorsed by the group.
El Paso Texas reports plans to invite every U S and Mexican governor to be guests at the presidents meeting on October 16 in El Paso. The event aims to foster cross border cooperation and regional policy dialogue.
The Cunard liner Lusitania completed the Queenstown to New York crossing in four days 11 hours 42 minutes beating her own best time by 3 hours 18 minutes. She averaged 25.85 knots, and docked at the Cunard pier just before 8 PM becoming the first liner to arrive on the fourth day from Queenstown.
The Presbyterian minister Rev Cyrus Armstrong died at St Joseph age 58 He served as a minister at Stanberry Missouri for many years and was for a time pastor of a church in Kansas City.
Joplin plans a six story office building costing about 200000 dollars. The project draws interest from local officials and investors seeking new commercial space in the city.
E W Stephens was elected moderator of the Little Bonne Femme Baptist association. The group comprises churches in Boone Callaway and Montgomery counties.
The auctioneer has been chosen as superintendent of a Methodist Episcopal Sunday school in Chillicothe. There is consideration of him also leading the singing for the group.
Omar D. Gray of the Sturgeon Leader has returned home from an 8000 mile journey through the west to Alaska. He expresses pride in Missouri comparable to William Allen White’s pride in Kansas.
The Springfield council authorized a move to remove the electric light tower at the square center. The tower’s base stood as the scene for three African Americans to be...
Kirksville residents raised 21000 in two days to secure a bonus for an interurban electric line to Hanni bal.
Nodaway county reports an unusually large apple yield this year with farmers bringing in early varieties by wagon and selling them for 1 to 1.25 dollars per bushel. Commission houses are shipping most fruit to Iowa and Minnesota.
The Rev. Frank Wagoner of Odessa, a Methodist minister who also tends truck gardens, reportedly raised 1 200 bushels of onions on a single acre, according to the Democrat.
Secretary Ballinger arrived in Washington and plans to visit Beverly to brief the president on the controversy between the interior department and the forestry bureau over the Cunningham coal claims in Alaska.
Princess Liliuokalani aged 71 hosts a birthday reception for the visiting congressional delegation in Honolulu. The event follows her customary practice of receiving native Hawaiians on her birthday and marks a notable social gathering in the capital.
Lieutenant Benjamin D. Foulois of the Signal Corps will represent the War Department at the international aeronautical conference in Nancy France. He departs Washington D C for the French gathering and will participate in discussions on aviation developments and military air service.
A playful exchange between a balmy headed Johnny and a poised Dolly ends with Dolly expecting a supper date. Johnny boasts of mimicry while Dolly retorts inviting another suitor for the evening.
Miss Ann Pearsons of Northfield Vermont recounts a chronic eczema case starting at the ear, spreading to the face and neck, with severe itching and oozing. After trying three doctors with no relief, she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment and was healed within three months. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Boston props.
Major insurers push prevention over dividends as Metropolitan Life seeks a sanatorium for policy holders and employees but is blocked by state officials. It distributes 3,500,000 pamphlets while Provident Savings Life runs a health bureau offering free medical advice. Fraternal orders including Modern Woodmen Knights of Pythias Royal League Royal Arcanum and Workmen's Circle consider sanatoria for tuberculous members.
A past Atchison Kansas Globe note recalls a young woman praised for charity and patience who married a decent man and began to abuse him within three months. The piece suggests marriage reveals hidden meanness in both spouses.
An aphoristic note extols early hours and steady work as keys to wealth. It argues rogues thrive at night while honest workers excel by day, claiming good habits in America build fortune and citing John Jacob Astor.
A reader’s testimonial describes twelve years as a telegraph clerk with coffee use harming nerves and stomach. After quitting coffee and starting Postum, health improves and the body tolerates all foods, with the formula prepared by boiling 20 minutes and served with cream. A copy of The Road to Wellville is advertised and a generic reassurance about genuine letters is offered.
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