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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1903
Page
6
The text notes exhausting heat and long shifts for salespeople from 7:30 a.m. to 5:50 p.m. Aisle workers face tougher hours, while shoppers can often buy after or before at numerous small stores that stay open most of the time.
A Sedalia resident Eli Jenkins of 1217 E Third says backache headaches and kidney problems stopped after using Doan's Kidney Pills from W E Bard Drug Co. He recommends them and notes the product costs 50 cents with FosterMilburn Co sole US agents. Remember the name Dean's.
Classified style short notices list a first class barber needed for fair week at 105 West Third Street Charles Pudry seeks applicants. Additional items include rental rooms on East Third and South Kentucky, a small barn near Fourth Street, and J M Cain pants factory laborers. A Haynes piano for sale or trade by H A Cohen Q C, and rooming accommodations for eight at 408 East Fourth Street. A girl for general housework near town, and a boy with a horse for a paper route are also listed.
Daily excursion tickets sold to Colorado and Utah resorts at about half price with return limits in effect all summer.
A mother recalls her 18 month old son suffering cramps and daily fits until Dr Miles Restorative Nervine was used. After initial doctors failed, one-half bottle stopped the fits and straightened his limbs, another bottle cured him. Now healthy and in school, she urges others to try Dr Miles remedies. Free book offered by Dr Miles Medical Co. Elkhart Indiana.
A breakfast item list includes cereal with cream tomato omelet English muffins with strawberry sirup and coffee.
Cream of lettuce and roast chicken with fried parsnips potatoes and string bean salad followed by apple charlotte.
A recipe for a raspberry bread dessert precedes a newspaper anecdote about late shopping in a department store. An aisle manager recounts a woman forcing past him at closing and threatening to report him, illustrating the friction of 8 to 5 hours and shoppers who linger past the bell, delaying staff and customers.
Business for sale offering a fresh stock of groceries and a good location. Will consider taking a good team in part payment. Reason given is ownership of another business. Address listed as J. D., care Sentinel.
Daily round trip tickets to Minnesota resorts at just over half rates. The state with 10,000 lakes offers a wealth of summer attractions. Write for a list of Minnesota boarding houses and hotels.
Wanted a man cook for general cooking. Steady job with good wages. Apply Kemper Military School Boonville Missouri.
Albany resident W. S. Philpot reports rapid relief from bilious attack after taking a single De Witt’s Little Early Risers pill. He claims the small pill outperformed calomel and blue mass and found the effect pleasant. Sold by Bard Drug Company.
The first and third Tuesdays of each month offer half-price tours to view the west and northwest crops and to assist buyers in securing homes in the rapidly developing region.
Describes the Burlington lines as the main traveled roads through the west and northwest. Mentions C B Ogle and L W Wakely as traveler agents with their St Louis address at 604 Pine Street.
Dr George A Major successor to Dr T T Major & Son offers reduced dental care for a limited period. Full set of teeth eight dollars. gold fillings one dollar and up. gold and platina fillings seventy five cents. amalgam fillings fifty cents. cement fillings five and a half. gold crowns six dollars. Logan crowns forty dollars. bridge work. painless extractions. office at 410 Ohio Street opposite courthouse.
Consumers are urged that indigestion sufferers can eat freely by taking Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. The remedy allegedly prepares the stomach for reception and digestion of wholesome food, aiding digestion and blood health. Sold by W. E. Bard Drug company.
President Roosevelt praises Yellowstone as a pristine preserve where wilderness scenery and wildlife remain protected. Travel promotions highlight access via Union Pacific and Monida routes with low summer rates and a Monida stage ride option. For more details contact H G Kaill in Kansas City Missouri.
The text advertises The New Royal Muskoka Hotel in Muskoka Lakes as a premier summer resort. It notes operation for guests starting June 165th and invites inquiries through the Grand Trunk Railway Advertising Department in Chicago and George W. Vaux.
Boies Bros. & Co advertises Sedalia real estate and Missouri properties for sale or trade. Listings include 153 acres in Johnson County Mo at 30 cents per acre, 1120 acres with livestock in Kansas to swap for Missouri farms, and Pawnee Valley land with 600 cultivated acres. Also offers prairie land near Garden City and Ed wards County acreage with grain yields.
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