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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1902
Page
2
Travel ad lists numerous round trip and one way fares for winter 1902 routes. Includes California Colorado and Montana destinations with dates, low and high rates, and through car arrangements. Tickets valid through October 1902 with specific travel windows in March, April, and June through September.
The Burlington Route advertises March and April 1902 one way colonists rates to Portland Tacoma Seattle Puget Sound $25.60 Spokane area $22.50 Butte Helena district $20.00 with through coaches chair cars and sleepers to Butte Helena Spokane Puget Sound and Portland Fast Denver service via Billings and connections to the Northwest St Paul Minneapolis via Omaha and Sioux City Also routes to Kansas City and eastbound Missouri Pacific timetable details and travel promotions by R H Crozier L W Wakeley Howard Ellison general manager and agents in Kansas City and St Louis.
A Missouri reader touts Ayer s Sarsaparilla as a cure for debility weak nerves and indigestion after two bottles. The ad copy urges consulting a doctor and notes purchase from druggists. It also contains travel ads for Denver Colorado excursions and various railway schedules and connections through Kansas City and Sedalia.
Tickets advertise rail options across Kansas Indian Territory Oklahoma and Texas with one fare plus two dollars round trip. March and April 1902 show a twenty six dollar eighty five cent price to several western cities including Reding San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego El Paso and more with cheap rates to Montana Utah and Washington. Dallas round trip ten forty five and April sales for United Confederate Veterans reunion on April 19 20 21 with fifty cent fee for execut ing return tickets and extensions possible to May 15 with April 30 limit.
Doctors urge patients with pulmonary ailments to seek open air in West Texas plateau and moderate elevations of Arizona and New Mexico for year round relief. The text notes the climate offers safety from exposure and potential health benefits.
The dry ozone rich air west of San Antonio from Marfa to Tucson provides year round outdoor living benefits. The text claims thousands saved from death in the East by moving to the region and urges readers to request Matter of Health and El Paso and the Health Belt by sending two cents to a Southern Pacific agent or J. H. Lothrop in St. Louis.
A Sedalia notice from the Royal Tribe Building promotes Fyricide a dry powder fire extinguisher claiming instant extinguishing power for three dollars and seeks town and county agents. It also touts a four minute churn dasher and butter maker priced at 75 cents to one dollar and invites agents nationwide.
A. J. Fults & Co announces the best Windsor coal suitable for cooking and heating at 3.00 per ton delivered. They offer dry and green wood by the cord or stove length with low prices. Call at yards or by phone Queen City 21 or Bell 84.
Our Fiber Kindling is a great success and the best and cheapest fire kindler on the market. Neat compact and clean. Heard as essential by customers who tried it. Also see us for stove wood and high grade cooking coal. Both phones 26. STANLEY COAL CO.
A Sedalia junk company offers to take all kinds of scrap for a free gold watch as a lure. They advertise wagons for rag, bone, metal, bottle collection and state contact numbers at Main and Vermont locations.
The Smithton school holds its seventh annual commencement at the M. E. church this evening with a program including school marches invocations by Rev. C N White, readings by Roy Lujin Etta Boucher and Homer Knox piano solos and duets by Edith Glens the Ringen sisters and others plus a diploma delivery by Prof DD Wilson.
Advertisement promises a cure with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets sold by druggists. Money refund offered if no cure, with E W Groves' signature on each box. Box price listed as 265c.
Lodge and Staley promote a new line of lace curtains and exclusive patterns. They announce arrivals in various floor coverings and urge early carpet selections to be made up. They claim prices are the lowest consistent with dependable goods and warn not to buy a go cart until seeing the National.
Advertising copy touts Red Cross Ball Blue as a laundry aid to make clothes white. A 2092 package is offered for five cents with the claim it turns garments bright white.
Want column seeks eight ads under classified heads. 20 words per ad or less. Payment 25 cents in cash. No ad accepted for less than 25 cents.
Post states that payment can be sent to the office directly or left at select business houses including Otis W. Smith at Fifth and Engineer streets, Arlington Pharmacy on 508 Ohio Street, and Dow Drug Co. at 200 Ohio Street.
For sale Shade trees offered by F Taylor Cain. Local listing advertises available varieties and pricing. Contact details not provided.
For sale or trade a five room cottage on a corner lot plus a store building. Will exchange for a small well improved farm. Address C No 4101 West Tenth Sedalia No 213 dime.
For rent or sale a five acre place with a large house, furnished or unfurnished, barn, outbuildings and fruit trees at 619 West Twenty third street. A model suburban home with owners able to board with renters if agreeable. Apply George E. Dugan.
Notice offers a safe reliable family horse and buggy for sale. Price fifty dollars for both. Inquire at 1411 South Osage. Contact E. J. Dillon.
The Nebraska-Colorado Express now departs Kansas City at 9 35 p m and arrives Denver at 3 15 p m next day, three hours quicker. The earlier departure is designed for travelers arriving Kansas City on afternoon trains, providing a few hours for business.
An eight acre rentable farm with good improvements seven miles southwest of Sedalia. Apply to Frank Hughes Public Administrator.
Unfurnished rooms available at 615 West Seventh Street. Suitable for light housekeeping. Inquiries requested at the above address.
An advertisement touts a ten dollar daily gaslight burner that fits any coal oil lamp without a chimney or wick trimming. It claims smoke free, dirt free operation and broad appeal to homes, churches, banks and businesses seeking bright economical lighting.
Advertisement promotes Red Cross Ball Blue for bright white clothes. Describes a large 2 oz package priced at 5 cents.
A small advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue laundry powder to whiten fabrics. It promotes a large 207 ounce package priced at five cents and presents the product as a quick solution for faded clothes.
Sample free money maker offer promises 200 percent profit for agents. Advertises immediate work and rapid earnings from Enterprise Manufacturing Co. box 482 Cincinnati Ohio.
A small black collier strayed from the Huckins hotel on Tuesday. Noted by a black strap and brass ring around the neck. Return to 614 West Broadway for a reward.
Classified notice announces the first floor of a dwelling for rent with four rooms and use of a bath. Inquiries directed to L. Lovinger at 601 West Sixth Street between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Local contact details provided.
Furnished rooms available above the Sentinel office. Inquiries to Charles Pudry at Plaza Barber Shop, 195 West Third.
Short recruitment notice seeks a girl to learn dress making with instruction at this office. Respond by sending name and address to the address labeled F.
We offer a good proposition for a lady solicitor in Sedalia and vicinity calling upon the representative people and selling a bona fide article. Good commission for the right party. Ad dress or call upon G. Sentinel office. 4-2rde.
Arlington Pharmacy announces expansion of reliable drugs and methods with physician and patient endorsement. The announcement emphasizes prompt delivery and ongoing growth in service offerings.
Want ads in the Evening Sentinel column promise results. Twenty words run three times for 25 cents cash.
A buyer directs a druggist to supply the genuine Rocky Mountain Tea from Madison Co and rejects any substitute. The note insists on the authentic product and warns against similar offerings.
An Arlington item references calling 14 for any drug store needs using both phones. It notes clear white clothes as a sign the housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue, sold in a large 2 oz package for 5 cents.
April price notes offer 3 pound tomatoes and canned goods from Van Camp or Maryland Chief. Call for current pricing and by the dozen rates.
Sedalia Gas and Fuel Company advertises private loan options with attorney C. C. Li at Katie Building, contact telephone 467.
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