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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1911
Page
3
A public school teacher famed for guiding reluctant pupils faced a mood shift as exams neared. She urged "Of course we can pass" but the class grew sulky until a pliant pupil revealed they blamed Miss Blank for not passing.
Since Red Cross Ball Blue entered the market there has been a rapid drop in liquid bluing sales. Consumers are urged to buy solid bluing and dissolve as needed. It makes clothes whiter, lasts longer, and is cheaper. Two sizes 5 and 10 cents, ask your grocer.
In a Tennessee town Jim, worn and hungry after a failed bid for world conquest, declares he has come home to die. Uncle John responds bluntly that he will return to eat, not perish, reflecting a dark humor tone from the source.
Home Notes lists six categories that withhold kindness: the narrow minded who think only of themselves, the indifferent lazy, the busy with no time to help, the rich who ignore pleas, the poor lacking spirit and ability, and the good natured fool who cannot serve you.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer humor column recounts a week of attempted fly slayings. The narrator battles one agile fly and misadventures with a lamp a fly screen and a mistaken wasp. The tale ends with the narrator noting a swollen nose.
A Minnesota family adapts Postum after a failed first attempt. The mother’s second trial, with longer boiling, yields a pleasing result for all and transforms the father from coffee dislike to a healthier, enjoyed beverage.
A preacher urges young members to engage in direct, personal outreach to win souls. He stresses living by example, bearing Christlike love, and inviting others to accept Christ, recounting a revival where a small youth band grew through nightly prayers and personal invitations.
The passage reflects on life’s dissatisfactions and unmet ideals as a divine promise. It argues grand human nature seeks completion beyond earth life, citing the Beatitude that those who hunger for righteousness will be filled.
In remarks attributed to Rev W H Geistweit of San Diego a claim is made that married men require no club house to spend spare hours just as married women have no need for a public leasing place, and the presence of children in the home amplifies the damage.
The Citizens State Bank of Chautauqua eight miles south was robbed at about 8 a.m. The burglars tunneled into the rear vault, placed nitroglycerin, and blew the safe door through to the street. About 150 dollars in silver was taken. damage to the bank and furnishings could reach 1000 dollars. no one was aroused and the robbers fled after the explosion.
Montreal reports a sweeping Conservative victory as the Laurier government is defeated. The Liberal majority of 43 disappears, and a large Conservative majority rises, driven by patriotism and fears of annexation through reciprocity with the United States. The result shocks the government and upends its key policy on reciprocity.
In Glasgow Missouri a push button sign near the Missouri river marks a ferry crossing. Four cars can be ferried at once and trips run in three to five minutes. The gong on the sign posts alarms the ferry tender to operate day or night. Curtis Hill described Glasgow’s added route convenience to Columbia highway workers.
Cattlemen J. H. Stine and H. B. Johnson file suit in Grady County challenging the constitutionality of the state cattle quarantine law and obtain an injunction against the state board of agriculture and the sheriff to halt dipping their cattle for fever ticks.
The first fur row on the grade for the Kansas City Clay County and Excel Springs Interurban railway was plowed on Jas Garrand’s farm just south of Dearborn Missouri. About 100 people attended the ceremony marking the start of actual construction.
Chicago jurist Grosscup, presiding judge of the United States circuit court of appeals for the Northern district of Illinois, says he will not resign to President Taft until charges and criticisms of his judicial career are published and he has acted to clear his name. He plans a broad investigation of his conduct and to push for a committee to probe all potential accusations.
C P Rodgers the latest starter in coast to coast flight arrived at Hancock New York after flying 95 miles from Middletown New York in 78 minutes.
The Missouri State Federation of Labor convention condemned Boy Scouts as a capitalist tool aimed at intimidating workers and directing youth toward military aims, arguing the movement serves employers rather than the laboring class.
Report from Manila says famine danger grows due to rice crop failure. Governor General Forbes plans government purchase of an entire shipload in Rangoon to ease shortages.
An old advertisement promotes Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap as universal cures for skin conditions from pimples to eczema and barber's itch. It claims instant effect, availability in opal screw-top containers priced at fifty cents to one dollar, and notes physician approval. Sample offered free on request. produced by Resinol Chemical Co. Baltimore, Maryland.
Mrs. Freeman Craver of Syracuse recalls her infant daughter's eczema starting at eight months and spreading to the face neck and back. She followed a physician's teething theory, used Cuticura Soap and Ointment after reading the Cuticura book, and the child remained free of eczema after age one.
An up to date ad notes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children soothes teething gums reduces inflammation and eases pain. It claims benefits for wind colic and is priced at 25 cents per bottle.
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