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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1905
Page
2
The snippet identifies George H. Scruton as President and Editor of the Sentinel Newspaper Co. in Sedalia Missouri with a Queen City 260 telephone line and post office entry details. It reads like a masthead fragment from a Sedalia publication.
The southwest including Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Indian Territory Arkansas and Texas is described as rapidly developing with new railways factories and land sales. Kansas is praised for paying off mortgages and banks buying paper in the east while consumers lead growth and future production may move homeward. A second piece notes fraud orders reducing mail fraud and saving the public from lotteries and gambling schemes.
The piece frames China’s warning that any peace settlement affecting Manchuria must be consultative with Beijing. It argues Russia and Japan should recognize China’s rights to its territory, noting past concessions and urging common‑sense consultation rather than unilateral action by the great powers.
The article notes Postmaster General Cortelyou's vigorous pursuit of promoters of fraudulent enterprises that rely on the mails for success. It highlights growing public familiarity with the term and the crackdown's visibility in the press.
An advertisement extols Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal medicine that acts on blood and mucous surfaces. It claims a physician’s endorsement, lists ingredients as tonics and blood purifiers, and offers testimonials. The notice includes price and a secondary product pitch for Hall's Family Pills and parasols at Flower's.
Police pursue a man calling himself Lord Atenford P. Scott who has multiple wives and victimized women in Michigan Indiana Texas California and South Dakota. He wed Belle Warner of Niles aged 19 last October then deserted her in St Louis. Letters from other wives and a false mine claim are noted in the case. Scott, about 35, has no fixed job and claimed Mexican mine wealth.
A social welfare style testimonial extols Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a cure for irregularities, debility, and female weakness. It cites Mrs. J Hack of Buffalo as historical proof of relief from falling womb, discharges, headaches, and nervousness after using the medicine. It also promotes Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets for constipation as a mild laxative.
An unknown killer titled Jack the Ripper struck in Atlanta Ca on Decatur street killing Anderson from Birmingham and wounding six others. Victims included three stabbed in the back and two in the shoulder and Clara Jackson stabbed in the face as police have no clue to the criminal.
John McMinn a traveling salesman for Rothschild Bros. hatters died Monday in a St. Louis hospital from complications after gall bladder surgery. He was about 55 years old and well known locally. Survived by his wife and two children.
An advertisement extols DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as pleasant effective pills. They are claimed to prevent headaches biliousness torpid liver and constipation related ailments and to tonify the liver. Sold by W. E. Bard Drug Co.
The Banner Crowd reports the largest crowd of the season attending a Sedalia Athletic Club benefit at Crystal Ark last evening. Members showcased skills on parallell bars and tumbling while Ash McNeil and Eldred Harrison staged a top wrestling bout. The same show travels back to Sedalia for another performance tonight.
An advertisement asserts health depends on nourishment and a healthy stomach. It claims Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat and strengthens the digestive system, curing appetite loss, nervousness, headaches, constipation, bad breath, indigestion, and other stomach troubles. Sold by W. E. Bard.
Advices from Vladikavkaz report that a Circassian woman of 18 leads an armed gang terrorizing the city. Policemen are killed and shops robbed as Morosoff, who once helped capture gang members, is robbed again and his child taken to the mountains. A year earlier four brigands robbed Morosoff of 2000 roubles. Morosoff and a local group captured three attackers who proved to be young Circassian women. The gang's leader vowed revenge within twelve months, and the time has now elapsed.
C Unger of Waple Street Campa Ill writes about a year of hacking cough mistaken for consumption. After trying many remedies under physicians care and using Foley's Honey and Tar one bottle cured him. Arlington pharmacy sold the product.
An advertisement promotes Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar as a nonopiate cough syrup for coughs colds and croup with red clover blossom honey bee imagery. It claims broad use for children and adults and names W. E. Bard Drug Co as seller and notes parasols priced at 1.98 dollars.
New York officials predict the upcoming special session of the supreme council will be unproductive. They expect reaffirmation of the new rates despite nationwide protests. Plans from malcontents will be considered but not favored by the council. Change requires two-thirds vote.
An Arlington pharmacy advertises Foley's Kidney Cure claiming to cure Pright's disease diabetes kidney and bladder stones and other kidney and bladder diseases with a broad sales pitch aimed at potential customers.
Dr. H. B. Cole of East Sedalia is erecting a neat cottage on East Seventh Street between Center and Porter avenues, signaling local residential growth.
Delegates from across Pennsylvania fill the armory for the Catholic Total Abstinence Union convention opening in Wilkes Barre. Pontifical mass at St Marys Church with Bishop Hoban of Scranton. President Roosevelt and Cardinal Gibbons expected to speak from riverfront stands tomorrow as the event proceeds through the week. Mothers urged to protect children. Hollister’s Rocky Mountaineer baby medicine advertised at 36 cents by W E Bard Drug Co.
Tomorrow 13 wasn day at the Monarch Laundry. Send the family washing to Monarch Laundry, call phone 183 and the wagon will call. Located at 606 South Ohio Street.
Milwaukee August convention opens as the Master Shoe Metal Workers' Association begins its annual gathering with sessions and industry speeches.
A listing for a dermatologist chiropodist and hair scalp and complexion specialist located at 132 West Third Street. The item presents a professional service inclusion and a street address for contact or appointment.
An old advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to cure corns bunions and sore feet. It claims relief from swelling and heat and lists drug stores and shoe shops as outlets selling the 25 cent product.
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