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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1902
Page
7
An advertisement promotes Omega Oil claiming to cure rheumatism by topical use on the pain site and with drinking water to flush kidneys. It touts the blood disease theory and urges two weeks of use to see results, advising hydration morning and night.
A period advertisement lists April prices for produce and canned fruits including three pound tomatoes per dozen at 1.10, van Camp or Maryland Chief items, Q brand tomatoes corn pears grapes plums peaches apricots and heavy syrups. The note promotes Q stamps value and recalls a humorous May Lippincott anecdote about social entry at a dancing assembly.
Dr T T Major and Son advertise limited time dental work with full set priced at 8 dollars gold fillings from 1 dollar, gold and platina fillings, amalgam fillings, Logan crowns up to 4 dollars, and bridge work. Painless extraction promised with all work warranted. Office at 410 Ohio Street opposite courthouse.
Junk buyers at Sedalia Junk Co invite residents to convert rags bones stoves bottles and scrap metal into cash or a gold watch free with the deal. Wagons collect all sorts of junk from Main and Vermont area. Call Telephones 1000 and 263 for particulars.
Advertisement fragment notes CASTORICA Barretts The Kind You Have Always Bought with a signature line. Mentions a Collection Agency Bulletin and Spaulding's baseball goods advertised as cheaper locally, urging mail order from S. M. Howe Co.
An old advertisement urges readers to use Red Cross Ball Blue to brighten whites, stating 207 package priced at five cents and a contact phone 169 for Clopton's light transfer services.
A vintage advertisement promotes Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product. A large 2 oz package is offered for five cents promising to restore whiteness to faded fabrics.
A long time Sedalia resident, living since 1865, promotes a trusted stove repair service at 213 West Main street. The ad urges local support for continued service and also hawks Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product, 2 oz for five cents.
Local ad offers a picnic wagon that seats 20 with contact phone 263 and number 1000. Message signed Kohen Koal Ko dated 4 27 dtf.
Ladies' and gentlemen's restaurant boasts unsurpassed service and top quality goods. A 25 cent dinner caps the climax with a bill of fare rivaling large cities. Meal tickets offered at reduced rates. Eat at first class rates any hour from a varied bill of fare.
A Pullman trip from Cincinnati to Chicago ends with a clash over smoking and a loud snore. The English passenger, Rev. Joseph Cook, is mistaken for a typical John Bull and later revealed by the narrator as the renowned Boston preacher. The writer’s attempt at humor backfires as a lesson in Anglophobia and misidentification unfolds aboard the night car.
In Random Recollections R Ganthony recounts a Kaffir auction scene in Africa where a company member teases a chief by offering her, leading to the chief’s earnest bid and her eventual escape amid a Zulu oath as friends rejoice at her return.
A Madrid paper ridicules President McKinley and cites a naturalized Chinese claim. In Carson City miners discovered blood red fish at 2200 feet in a boiling subterranean lake flooded Hale and Norcross and Savage mines. The fish survived in 128 degree water but died when moved to cold buckets. The creature had no eyes and peeled skin when boiled.
Lists round trip and special rate periods for cities including Dallas Asheville Springfield San Francisco Portland Denver Minneapolis Tacoma and more. Mentions limits call at ticket office, sale windows June to October 1902, with higher fares for Colorado routes and Glenwood Springs Salt Lake Ogden.
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