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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1902
Page
7
P Brandt Grocer Co promotes Golden Roast Coffee priced at 25 cents per pound. They claim it delivers more cups and better flavor than cheaper brands, due to a unique blend that stays strong without rankness. They warn against imitators.
In Kansas City Missouri April 12 testimony resumed in a suit where George McCullagh rich mine owner sues Hugh E Thompson for 5000 over a poker debt from a Baltimore hotel game. Thompson says he lost ten thousand but was cheated and refuses to pay the balance after being beaten by a queen pair.
Eugene F Ware of Topeka is named new commissioner of pensions and is noted for a verse volume that has seen multiple editions in England and the U S. A May 3 1898 poem about Dewey at Manila Bay captures his fame with a playful couplet. Also Washington reports Lieutenant Commander Potts gets a soft naval assignment as Berlin attaché with duties to Germany Austria and Italy.
A Sedalia store advertises a month long fire sale with 20 to 50 percent reductions across dress goods and housewares. It highlights Persian and India linens, silks, moire velour, laces, towels, table damask, and underwear, urging rapid purchase as stock shrinks from $30,000 to about $158,000 value.
President Jesse announced the University Branch Summer School for South Missouri will be held this year at Mountain Grove. Instructors include Prof. John D. Wilson of Sedalia teaching English and Latin, Norman C. Riggs in mathematics, Dr. Rolla R. Ramsey in physics, Prof. Ernest Van Court Vaughan in English, and Prof. John T. Stinson in nature study.
A birthday party was held Saturday afternoon at 520 North Grand Avenue from 2 to 5 o'clock in honor of Little Willie Lankenau. Children played games and enjoyed ice cream and cake. guests included Ethel Jacobs, Minta Jacobs, Louise Starkey, Jennie Swischer, Flora Kirchoffer, Mabel Geisler, Pearl Lankenau, Edward Fischer, Willie and Harry Sheets, Roy Kirchoffer, Ferdinand Simon, Wilbur and Otis Fischer, Willie Lankenau, and Will Schupps.
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