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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1905
Page
6
Free notices list church socials with refreshments music and invitations. Tonight Smith and Cotton lawn. Thursday evening social by First Congregational church members at Mrs F J Ludemann's residence West Fourth Street. Everyone welcome.
A string of local personal items notes H. C. Doolittle returning from Kansas City lace night, Miss Louie Phipps visiting Warrensburg, Capt. E. W. Stevens at the Higginsville fair, and many others traveling to Minnesota Missouri California and Michigan for visits business and relocation considerations.
Local ad touts discounts on granulated sugar salt bacon coffee and lard with bold claims of lower prices than rivals. It promises fresh fish butter and eggs twice weekly and invites shoppers to try Cuban coffee at 20 cents a pound.
The ladies of the First Congregational church host a farewell reception at 620 West Fourth for Rev B F Martin and his wife prior to their move to Galva Illinois. An orchestral and vocal program features solos by Mrs C H Bard and Mr J T Carman. Refreshments will include Nabisco wafers and ice cream.
Railroads report mixed effects on August 3 as telegraphers strike enters day two. Missouri Pacific suit settlement ties to injury case. rolling stock delays occur from broken rails and tampered signals. Managers credit improving overall traffic with most divisions returning to near schedule.
A new motive power assignment board was installed in H. B. Lautz's office, four by two feet, with holes and color pegs to show how many locomotives serve each division between Chicago and Albuquerque. The board also tracks engines in shops, in transit, or laid out, aiding operations during the wheat rush.
Negotiations by general chairmen of the railway orders with M K and T officials advance toward annual passes for certain road employees. Details on service years and regulations remain to be set, but both sides expect smooth rules and broad employee support for a plan similar to Southern Pacific’s system.
By October the Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad will receive thirty Baldwin locomotives including some with inside rod connections capable of eighty miles per hour. Foreman Thomas J Bennie at Fort Scott sustained a compound leg fracture in a work accident as a cylinder head exploded on an engine. E P Whelan of St Louis succeeds Frank Pearson as Missouri Pacific round house foreman at Nevada, with Pearson moving to Kansas City. Various Missouri Pacific staff changes and incidents follow, including injuries to William McFadden at the coal chutes and a derailment era accident involving J W Hathaway en route to Lima.
Receipts this week total 30,400 cattle, 14,500 hogs, and 14,400 sheep with mixed price moves. Beef steers and cows show gains or steady bids, while feeders and grassers show varied strength. hog and lamb quotes drift higher, with specific price bands for cornfed and stock cattle and for local hogs and sheep.
National Board of Trade in Kansas City shows wheat quotes with open high and close values. Sedalia’s Logan Com. Co. participates with 2148 Lamine Street listing. market data includes opening and closing figures for the day.
Prairie hay baled per ton eight dollars. wheat per bushel ninety five and one tenth cents. chops per cwt one dollar twenty five cents. hard wheat flour per cwt two dollars sixty five cents. soft wheat flour per cwt two dollars thirty cents. Graham flour per ew t two dollars seventy cents. corn per bushel fifty five to sixty cents. potatoes per bushel unreadable.
Fragmentary OCR notes list prices for poultry and fowl including hens per Ib Sorghum per gallon spring chickens per Ib geese per Ib ducks per Ib. The text is incomplete and contains garbled characters.
Wilson and Hausar announce youth week bargains after buying Laupheimer and Spillers stock. Items include sweet pickles 55c per 18 oz bottle queen olives 20c salt mackerel six for 50c and Blanke’s Boule in a $1.06 per cwt offer.
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