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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1902
Page
8
A Wichita Kansas resident urges readers to consult their physician about Ayers Sarsaparilla claiming the formula offers superior blood purification digestion and nerve strengthening. The letter states the author has used the remedy every spring since 1548 and praises its efficacy.
A W Chatham of Lamonte spent the day in the city on business.
Masonic notice announces Saint Omer Commandery No. 11 will meet in regular Conclave on Tuesday evening April 1 1902 at 7 30 oclock. Visit J H Mara Recorder.
Classified wants copy must be in by 10 a m to appear the same day. Forty words total for three listings within a quarter. FOR SALE Shade trees by F Taylor. FOR SALE Cheap cash heavy Spring wagon 1011 East Third Street. 3 30 3tp.
For sale a large size family cook stove in near new condition. Inquire at 135 West Jefferson. 3 30 3rdc.
Vendor offers one milch cow and one male hog for immediate sale. Sale location is at Twentieth and Quincy. Advertisement dated 3 36 31p indicates imminent disposal and prompt engagement by buyers.
A five room cottage on a corner lot with a store building is offered for sale or trade. The seller will exchange for a small well improved farm. Address C No 401 West Tenth Sedalia No 218 dlmc.
Five acre place at 619 West Twenty third street features a large house, furnished or unfurnished, barn, outbuildings and fruit trees. Model suburban home with owners available to board renters if agreeable. Apply George E. Dugan.
Help wanted for a carpet layer position. J. E. Hillis seeks a skilled worker at 116 West Second. Apply by March 30.
Advertisement from Enterprise Manufacturing Co. offering coal oil lamp burners for sale. Claims no chimney or wick needed, smokeless and cheap illumination. Promises 200 percent profit for agents and calls for immediate orders from Cincinnati box 483.
Unfurnished rooms available at 615 West Seventh Street. Suitable for light housekeeping. Inquiries welcome at the above address.
FOR RENT Six room cottage with two big lots 135x270 feet No 616 North Grand avenue Rent reasonable LOST LADY'S gold watch presumably dropped while passing from Geo Smith College to Taylor Chapel SM EF church Bears initials es 7 Finder please return to H L Billups and receive reward FOR RENT The first floor of my dwelling four rooms also use of bath room Enquire between 10 am and 5 pm of L Lovinger 601 West Sixth street LOST Lady's pocketbook containing about $9.00 cash and school warrant for $70 Presumably lost in business portion of city Saturday March 2 Finder please return to this office and receive reward
The Kansas City Journal recalls Paul Gee a Lamar resident who died at 105. Once a slave, he married four times, fathered 34 children and grandfathered over 100. Known for his mellow memory and driving a team of small ponies, he would greet locals with birthday tall tales.
All parties paying their bills at Office of the Company at 119 East Second Street on or before the 10th of this month will be entitled to a discount. Illluminating gas five percent and fuel gas twenty five percent. Unpaid bills after the 10th inst will not be discounted. Sedalia Gas & Fuel Company.
Joseph Mehl opens Stall No 5 in the market house as a new meat market. The Kehl team vows strict cash sales, best meats, and low prices with prompt service. Old phone number 68. Call to judge by results.
An old advertisement offers Red Cross Bat Blue 207 laundry powder to restore faded clothes. The large package is priced at 5 cents, promoting whiteness and cleaning power.
Tickets mention fare plus $2 round trip to Oklahoma Texas and surrounding points with monthly sales by Katy's agent. Destinations include San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego El Paso and Montana Utah Washington with April May June meeting rates. Dallas return $10.45 for United Confederate Veterans reunion sales April 19 20 21. Extension allowed to May 15. Fee 50 cents for execut ing return tickets. Liberal stopovers.
Still doing business at the old stand, Grover's advertises top quality goods and low prices at 109 East Main Street. Phone 274.
McLaughlin Bros at 915 Chic Street advertise the greatest line of go carts in Sedalia as exclusive agents for Heywood go carts. They tout 50 rubber tire designs with exclusive running gear, rubber bumpers, and prices from 5 to 24 dollars. Also feature three carloads of modern furniture arriving, urging spring prep by buying now.
Dr. D. G. Dungan, a pioneer Christian church educator, visits Sedalia with Rev. F. O. Fannon to discuss establishing a Christian college. Dungan’s background includes Drake University, Cotner University, Canton Christian College, and Mt. Cabanne church leadership. A conference with Sedalia businessmen is planned to advance the project with a potential opening next autumn.
Mayor Tom L. Johnson returns from New York and plans to participate in the upcoming municipal campaign. He weighs running for Governor next fall and is reportedly aiming for the Democratic presidential nomination, contingent on Cleveland’s election outcome. Fifteen thousand women have registered for the school elections.
Sedalia Missouri on March 29 presents a list of low price bargains including New Orleans Sugar dried peaches and canned vegetables. The fragment shows 20 pounds sugar 3 pounds peaches two cans beans and beets priced around 25 to 50 cents per unit.
A heavy wind and snow storm raged in Columbus, Ohio since 6 o'clock with winds up to thirty miles per hour. Telegraph, telephone, trolley and electric wires are down across the city. Plate glass windows shattered in the north and south parts while trains faced only slight delays. Across the Ohio Valley, unusually low temperatures and high winds caused fires from lightning and light damage in several counties.
The Nebraska Colorado Express departs Kansas City at 9:35 p m arrives Denver 3:15 p m next day, cutting travel time by three hours. Departure fits post noon arrivals for business or visits in Denver, with five hours to enjoy the city before continuing west in chair cars sleepers and dining cars. The morning Denver Express leaves KC at 10:40 p m, and through California excursions operate via Scenic Colorado with through tourist sleepers each Wednesday and Thursday.
An old railroad advertisement invites readers to describe a proposed Northwest trip to receive a lowest cost quote and free send-printed matter. It lists R H Crozier TPA 823 Main Street Kansas City and L W Wakely GPA St Louis as contacts along with Howard Elliott GM St Louis and mentions a Spring frame Laclede bicycle from 114 West Second Street.
Baseball supplies catalog notes better selection and quality for the season from F. Taylor Cain.
The home of stone cutter Sam Duermyer at 524 East Saline burned last night around 12 15 saving his two small sons and some furniture. No fire plugs exist in the area and firefighters focused on protecting nearby buildings. Insurance covered 550 on the house and 200 on furniture, with total loss about 800.
Pat Shine and Pat Donahue were fined five dollars for disturbing the peace and resisting an officer. Shine could not pay and was jailed. Charles Clarke of Texas faced petit larceny charges for stealing two pipe wrenches from Sedalia Steam Laundry, fined ten dollars with a stay to depart the town.
All the boys are purchasing bicycles at F. Taylor Cain's this season as part of a local shopping surge.
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