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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1905
Page
8
Rail magnate Russell Sage predicts Missouri Pacific stock will reach around the 200 mark as investors await the next market moves. Sage cites steady demand and improving freight volumes across the Missouri Pacific system, signaling cautious optimism for shareholders.
New York Aug 17 Russell Sage 89 asserts to a friend he may live to 100 and see Missouri Pacific stock hit 200. The item sits amid railroad notes from Missouri Pacific Northern Pacific Katy Rock Island and others plus staff changes and delays at various depots and shops across Kansas Missouri and nearby states.
The notice lists C. Cowell a clerk in the freight office Denison Texas J H Prescott a bridgeman land Texas H H Cole a fireman Denison Texas Wade A Brady a bridgeman Ambrose Texas A A crusher laborer Sweeney M
Conductor K A Easley and Engineer Hunnicuit take charge this week at El Dorado Tun replacing ill Conductor Twyman and vacationing Engineer Jennings. Charley Weselch, newly hired at the Katy shops, becomes car repairer for Missouri Hugh Curran, a switchman.
A dated price list shows F P Licklider offering 18th best granulated sugar at $1.00 per unit, 8th best roasted coffee by gallon, fancy table syrups, full cream cheese, soda crackers, vanilla wafers, good flour per cwt, and coal oil priced at $1.00 and 15¢, reflecting a historical shop catalog.
A column of personals lists Miss Clara Lowry returning from Windsor, plus travels and visits by A. L. Cook in Concordia, Miss Davie Stroll from Lincoln Neb, Miss Mary Palmer to Denver, Mrs. Georgia Jones to visit her mother in Boonville, and other locals visiting relatives or friends in nearby towns.
A marriage permit was issued today to Alfred Romig and Emma M Oliver, both residents of the city.
Cattle receipts for the week reach 42,200 with prices showing steady to strong for cornfed steers and firm fed cows, while grassers and stockers trend lower. Veal calves and hogs quoted, with lambs and sheep markets active: top cattle prices around $5.55 for extra prime steers and lambs at $6.56 to $7.00.
An advertisement touts Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a thorough digestant and guaranteed remedy for indigestion dyspepsia gas on the stomach sour risings and other stomach troubles after a heavy meal. Sold by W E Bard Drug Co.
A case suspected to be yellow fever has developed among Mexican workers on the Santa Fe line five miles south of Iola Kansas. The men were brought from Sauta last week and the county physician is conducting an investigation.
Sedalia Steam Laundry adds a collar end cuff machine to its plant to improve collar and cuff finishing. The note invites customers to try the enhanced service and be convinced of higher perfection.
In Iola Kansas on August 17, the county attorney ordered all joints closed, a closure that briefly held after his visit, but reopened and sparked trouble leading to dynamiting. Militants began packing their glassware as a first-time precaution.
Captain E F Taggart may be court martialed over conduct as an officer tied to a vocal divorce case in Wooster Ohio. War department disclosed charges filed last April though details were not made public. Taggart had earlier filed charges against Colonel Miner which were dismissed as trivial.
Local ad offers lemons, salt, roasted coffee, corn starch, coconut, baking powder, navy beans, gasoline, sea dried Japan tea, and a 50 lb sack of Belle of Holden flour. Advertises Cuban coffee at 20 cents per pound, gal gasoline weekly price, and prompt delivery with two phone lines.
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