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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1910
Page
2
A condensed roundup notes postal savings banks planned nationwide by November and a governor’s withdrawal from a Tennessee bid. Missouri platforms back Falk and Taft while endorsing conservation. Western rail freight rate plans discussed in Topeka. Panama canal may earn 5 percent on a $500 million estimate. prohibition drives Missouri efforts and a national reform agenda.
Incomplete New Jersey primary returns suggest Congressman Fowler has been endorsed for U S senator. Washington results nominate Miles Poindexter over Burke with Ballinger and the national administration backing. Indictments target ten Chicago packing leaders for restraint of trade under the Sherman act.
Wu Ting-Fang, former Chinese minister to the United States, submitted a memorial to the throne advocating the removal of queues. A shipment of cartridges for Spanish revolutionists was captured in New York harbor.
Ernest W. Gerbracht receives two years and $5000 fine in Atlanta federal prison. Kellogg may replace Bowers as solicitor general. Kansas governors call November 8 special election for state senate seat in Butler county. Buckley announces chicken theft at Kansas City police station. Myers brands Boston sermon as sinful. President to visit Ohio before cabinet meeting moved to Sept 26. Lawrence commits suicide in Lawton. Bowers death saddens Taft era. Roosevelt attends Cincinnati river expo for improvements. First Ohio River navigator Roosevelt kin. Ballinger committee adjourns with no action. Bank president Hallam dies amid Flack fallout. Earth weight claim challenges physics. Haskell to resubmit Woman Suffrage on Nov 8. Curtiss to retire after Harvard Meet. works with Burgess on plane manufacture.
Commissioner John Curren of the immigration bureau praises Missouri congresses for widening awareness of undeveloped land. Farmers are urged to fund roads and schools as attitudes toward newcomers and new ideas shift across counties. The August rainfall varied by region, with mixed harvest prospects and temperatures from 48 to 102 degrees.
Mayor J B Ellis of Ellsberry Lincoln county reports a new street oiling experiment works well with five blocks of Main street and ten blocks in the residential area oiled. The 15 blocks cost 185 dollars using crude oil mixed with asphaltum. The process followed grading and spraying creating a hard springy dustless surface that resists water and wear.
George Brandon a respected resident near Milan ordered a coffin maker here to take measure for a walnut casket he plans to be buried in. At 68 and in good health he came to Milan to try the coffin, which costs $20. The contractor will hold the coffin until Brandon’s death.
Work has started on surveying the Springfield and Western railroad an electric line planned from Springfield to Pierce City to join a line to Joplin The route will be called the Jersey Route reflecting the region dairy industry along its path
The Democratic central committee of Stone County agrees to place Oliver H. Traves of Springfield on the ticket as prosecutor for Stone County. This is the only county office in the state open to a non resident candidate. Travers may move to Galena and canvass the county after accepting the nomination.
At a council meeting in Macon the mayor's veto on a 20 year local and long distance franchise for Bell and Macon telephone companies was overruled. Both ordinances passed ending a year long effort to keep Bell from the local service field.
Mexico Fair Association held its annual officer elections naming George Lee as president and E H Carter as secretary. The vote confirms leadership for the upcoming year and sets the administrative team for fair operations and events.
The Johnson county corn carnival runs in Warrensburg October 27 28 and 29 with $100 in cash given to the boy raising the best ten ears of corn. The Commercial club offers an equal value in other prizes.
William K. Amick of St. Joseph, a lawyer and politician, was nominated by the Fourth district Republican committee for representative in Congress.
Gov Hadley in Moberly cites Missouri achievement stats. He notes only about half the soil has been plowed and only a preliminary development of mineral and industrial wealth. Missouri covers 44 million acres with 23 percent improved, 17 million acres of forests, and half the cultivated land underused for productivity.
Beverly Massachusetts September 16 The president directs Secretary Norton to thank a Republican Iowa leader for support and notes federal patronage was withheld from some Republicans who opposed administration goals. The letter says the president will now treat all Republican congressmen and senators alike without distinction.
A survey begins for an electric line joining the Dodson line at Dodson to Belton and Harrisonville. West Missouri Electric Railway Co promoted by H. D. Patee will build with help from local property owners who have subscribed 130000 dollars and donated a 100 foot wide right of way. The plan parks the right of way on either side. the railway would maintain the road.
The Missouri conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South adopted a resolution aiming for closer cooperation and warmer sympathy toward uniting the two major Methodism divisions in extending the Master's kingdom.
Clyde W. Gow was found guilty of immoral conduct related to the death of Miss Elizabeth Gleason, a Lincoln County schoolteacher. He was unfrocked and dismissed from the Methodist church after a second conference trial.
The annual Missouri association of postmasters of the third and fourth classes met at Moberly. Officers elected were S. R. Garrett of Florissant as president, J. H. George of Calhoun as vice president, and H. H. Koppieman of Bourbon as secretary.
The structural steel workers strike in Kansas City ends after E. E. Barton announces contractor agreement. Workers will be paid 5 dollars for an eight hour day, up from 4.50.
The Warrensburg city council awarded a contract for one mile of brick street paving to United Construction Company of Vinita Oklahoma. The project funds and exact street alignment were not disclosed in the notice.
A federal case in Wichita and Hutchinson details a counterfeiting gang whose members pled guilty. Rudolph Warner of Hutchinson drew five years in prison and a $5000 fine. William Wilson and Joseph Ackenroad of Wichita received six months and $5000 fines. Kammerer of Wichita got nine months and $5000. fines may be remitted after serving terms.
Dr. Joseph A. Murphy United States medical inspector of Indian schools reports at a Denver gathering that despite higher death rates Indians still show a higher birth rate and a slight overall increase, countering common belief.
Caleb Powers eclipsed incumbent Don Edwards by more than 5000 votes in the Eleventh district Republican primary in Lexington Kentucky. The bitter race referenced Powers 1900 governor Goebel murder connections and a violent incident at Grapevine where Squire Colwell killed John Holmes over the election.
Kansas City jury of 12 rapid verdicts Darwin Norton to one year in county jail for marrying three women without divorce court involvement. Norton faced charges of bigamy after multiple marriages were discovered.
Mrs. John Weis of a nearby farm has canned 500 quart jars of peaches this year, claiming the local record for canning at her Weis farm.
The Kansas State Live Stock association issues a call for a meeting at Emporia September 20 to discuss proposed advance on livestock rates from all Kansas ports.
An advertisement quotes Mrs. Clara Fraxugs praising Pinkham’s Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a trusted remedy for displacements inflammation periodic pains backache bearing down feelings and nervous exhaustion. It claims thirty years of use and offers free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
A general enjoys easy days after the war ends while a sharp shift follows as the public seeks autographs and social banquets. The shift signals changing roles for military leaders in peacetime society.
A brief Washington Star quip notes Mr Penniwise married his typist and ponders if she receives an allowance or if he simply saves a salary. The remark hints at household financial dynamics and social expectations of the era.
A Purist quips that the Chanticleer cocktail is the new est drink and jokes that the phrase is redundant. The playful line riffs on word fusion and punny refinement.
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