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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1902
Page
7
Want Ads of 20 words or less run under classified heads in this column 3 times for 25c cash. None accepted for less than 25c. Send copy with cash direct to this office or leave at Otis W. Smith Fifth and Engineer Streets Arlington Pharmacy 508 Ohio Street Dow Drug Co 200 Ohio Street.
For sale by F. Taylor Cain a bargain sale offering one set 45 by 120 at Twelfth and Stewart a Surrey a new Phaeton a new harness saddle and bridle inquire at 1105 South Ohio.
An advertisement for Brilliant Gaslight Burners touts no chimney or wick needed and smoke free light. It targets agents with 200 percent profit and immediate work, inviting readers to write to Enterprise Manufacturing Co. Box 483 Cincinnati Ohio for samples.
WANTED tenant for an eight room house with cellar kitchen and laundry room stable and buggy shed fine shade best paved street in city water in house and yard will be put in first class condition location in good neighborhood apply to G. E. Dugan 116 East Fifth
Job seekers advertise for a skilled bookkeeper position with strong references. Respondents are asked to send applications to 16 South Massachusetts.
Property listing offering a good blue grass pasture with ample water, close to town. Inquiries directed to Drs. Dunkin the Osteopaths at Sixteenth and Arlington Heights or their Hoffman building office, Nos. 309-10. d8tc.
Classified notice invites trades for a good saddle in exchange for a shotgun. Mentions Drs. Dunkin Osteopaths located at Arlington Heights and the Hoffman building address 309 10. Date appears as 4 20 with unclear year.
Wanted manager for new branch of our business in Sedalia. Send application with references to Alfred Morris wholesaler Cincinnati Ohio. 3-20 d2tp.
Desirable six room cottage at 616 North Grand avenue with fruit water and a good neighborhood. See J. K. Kidd at LeGrande hotel. dated 4 20 d3p.
The notice advertises Katy rail tickets with one fare plus $2 round trip to Kansas Indian Territory Oklahoma Texas points and more. Dates March April 1902 list $26.85 for certain routes. Also cheap rates to Montana Utah Washington and West Coast cities. Dallas round trip $10.45. Annual United Confederate Veterans reunion sales April 19 20 21. Tickets valid to April 30 may extend to May 15.
Doctors advocate outdoor treatment for consumption and pulmonary ailments as beneficial. They urge patients to seek sun and fresh air outdoors, believing exposure aids recovery and improves symptoms.
The West Texas plateau and moderate elevations of Arizona and New Mexico are described as ideal climates for living outdoors year round. The dry atmosphere and ozone west of San Antonio notably benefit health seekers, with Marfa Fort Davis El Paso and Tucson cited. Readers are urged to request Matter of Health and El Paso and the Health Belt by sending two cents in stamps to Southern Pacific agents.
Rail advertising touts The Burlington Northern Pacific Express as a time saver with through coaches chair cars and sleepers to Butte Helena Spokane Puget Sound and Portland. It details Kansas City Denver through trains with daily service to St Paul Minneapolis and many western points offering low round trip fares and periodic colonist rates with specific city and date mentions.
Northwest Settlers receive very low one way colonists rates during March and April 1902 from Kansas City to Portland Tacoma Seattle Puget Sound at 25 dollars. Rates to Spokane and surrounding territory 22.50 dollars and to Butte Helena district 20 dollars. For exact intermediate and branch territory consult nearest ticket agent.
Market notes urge buying gasoline stoves refriger ators garden tools and chicken wire from P Hoffman with low prices. An item mentions Frank Kramer north of town first to plant this spring and his wife asking if he got it all amid a cold snap.
Charles J. Toppin, ex Western Union worker, held on 1300 bail for grand larceny after Augustus Rogers, a newspaper ad suitor, claimed Toppin and associates promised large profits from race betting. The scheme allegedly involved delaying race reports to enable bets, with Rogers losing heavily and a barn theft noted in Kansas City.
The Nebraska Colorado Express departs Kansas City at 9 35 P M arrives Denver 3 15 P M next day three hours quicker. Departure time allows afternoon business or visiting in Denver with five hours there before continuing west through Colorado in chairs sleepers and dining cars. The Burlington also runs a morning Denver Express at 10 40 A M and offers personally conducted California excursions from Kansas City each Wednesday and Thursday via Scenic Colorado.
Teo the Northwest promotes the Burlington Northern Pacific Express as a fast daily trio. It invites readers to describe their proposed trip to receive the lowest quoted costs and free printed matter. Contacts listed include R. H. Crozier TPA Kansas City and L. W. Wakely and Howard Elliott in St. Louis.
The following pensions have been granted to five recipients: Thomas Holland of Lincoln received $17, Henry D. Graves of California $8, Sarah J. Thompson of Lexington $8, Elias P. Stone of Pleasant Green $6, and Andrew Meier of Jefferson City $10.
William Winfrey 38 of Blue Jack et J. T. and Sarah E Erla 34 of Owsley Mo were granted a marriage license at Parsons Kansas last Saturday. Also note home made candies by Rembaugh 616 Ohio advertised as wholesome and pure.
In this county a Black man received two dollars to help construct a local church and later that evening lost it at a craps game.
Florimella cream is marketed to transform rough skin to smooth. The ad mentions toning effects and a lightweight formula promising noticeable results.
A barn at 1203 South Massachusetts, home of contractor Jerry Moyer, was burned Sunday around 5 AM. Officials cannot determine the fire’s origin but suspect sparks from a passing engine. A Katy train crew first spotted the blaze and raised alarms.
J M Vaughan and F M McMaster, Aurora citizens and mining men, were arrested near Joplin Missouri on a charge of grand larceny. They allegedly sold output from the Louisa mine and departed with about 3000 dollars. Police pursued them to Galena then jailed them in Galena.
Columbia April 21. R H Jesse president of the University of Missouri received a letter from Congressman Shackleford asking him to recommend six young men to enter the United States Naval Academy. Applicants must be ages 14 to 20 and pass a rigid examination.
The advertisement lists piano lessons led by Professor Tedford. Instruction is offered at Studio 526 East Fifth.
In Mexico Mo on April 21 the Central Missouri water and crop outlook worsens as grass wheat and oats thirst for moisture. Waterworks issued notices to stop sprinkling streets and lawns due to water scarcity after over a year with no heavy rain.
Official Honduras lottery reports confirm M. John Kelly holds a ticket that draws a $2000 prize. The item notes the prize outcome and identifies Kelly as the winner per the Moberly Monitor report.
Laxative Bromo Quinine claims to remove the grip in two days with E W Grove signature on every box and a price of 25 cents.
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