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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1899
Page
2
A young boy Tim died after a tram accident at a junction in Limporta last night. Schmidt, a man heading to Dodge City, was injured when he tried to board a moving freight train and was thrown under. He was 11 years old and single.
The War Department plans to keep regiments at maximum strength by using permanent recruiting posts in the United States and reserve depots in San Francisco and Omaha. Cuba-trained troops will be shifted to reinforce Philippine forces as regiments suffer losses, with four or more armies envisioned as U S forces grow to about 60 000. Maps prepared for Secretary Root show troop locations north and south of Manila and key transport corridors on Luzon.
A Liberty Rhode Island mother describes using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to treat her daughter with severe dysentery. She credits the medicine with saving her childs life and urges other mothers to use it. Local druggists Servant Harker Drug Co 508 Ohio St J L Kautzman 104 West Main St Otis W Smith corner Fifth and Engineer Sts stock the remedy. Reverend J M Yingling Cumberland Maryland endorses the product and its reliability.
Mrs Jennie Weston and her four year old son Bertie drowned themselves in a cistern at the Pierre South Dakota home. A 17 year old daughter slept through the event as family problems were cited. The mother had threatened suicide previously.
Me Schmidt of Grand Rapids Michigan was struck and killed after being run over by a train in Emporia Kansas on August 21. Local authorities investigated the incident and identified Schmidt as the sole victim. further details were not available.
Mrs W H Ames of Boonville visited her mother Mrs Beardsley Sunday and left accompanied home by her mother.
During the civil war and the war with Spain diarrhea was a major army problem and could become chronic. David Taylor of Wind Ridge Greene County Pennsylvania is among those helped by Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, which he says gives quick relief. It is for sale by Servant Harker Drug Co 503 Ghia street J L Kautzman 104 West Main Street and Otis W Smith corner Fifth and Engineer streets.
Architect W S Epperson drafts plans for a $3,500 residence to be built by Dr E A Wood on West Fifth.
Miss Hattie Gaskill arrived home Friday night after a four month visit with friends and relatives in Minneapolis Minnesota.
Advertisement urging early treatment for kidney disease with Foley's Kidney Cure. Claims kidney trouble is the leading adult killer and promotes a guaranteed product priced 50 cents to 1 dollar from A. S. Mc Gowan.
Mrs E Shultz and her daughter left Saturday afternoon for a visit in Kansas City, continuing a family trip to the city.
An advertisement touts Kodol Dyspepsia Cures as a universal remedy for digestive disorders. James M Thomas MD endorses it in the American Journal of Health, New York, through Servant Harker Drug Co.
The Misses Schlick of Chicago arrived Saturday night and will be guests of Miss Cora Huckins for a month or more.
An 19th century advertisement extols a speedy cough remedy used for summer colds. It quotes a believer, W W Merton of Mayhew Wisconsin, calling it wonderful, quick and safe.
California grapes are advertised as the season’s first at the Candy Palace store, with contact available by telephone at 218 for shoppers seeking the fruit and related details.
Harper's Bazaar notes two English living standards based on income. It cites prices in London for beef 25 cents a pound, butter 30 cents, coffee 40 cents, milk 8 cents a quart, strawberries 8-10 cents a basket, oysters 1 to 1.50 a dozen, bread similar to home, and mutton 20 cents a pound plus 7 cents more for English mutton, illustrating higher costs for most necessities for the English poor and middle classes.
The piece cites Mr. Alt haus in the Lancet claiming aging can be reversed within six years through galvanic treatment. It argues electricity will restore youth, reduce wrinkles and gray hair, and shave five to ten years off appearance with four to six weeks of daily electrical therapy.
In a humorous exchange from the New York Evening World Mrs. Goodhart offers to economize by sewing and cutting new trousers for her husband Henry. He pretends to faint at the idea, then reassures her it was only a joke as he recovers.
The article notes Christian missionaries in Sechuan province often treat both body and soul. One governor’s wife paid with food gifts such as a chicken, duck, eggs, cakes, and mutton, and later sent chrysanthemums. The piece suggests the doctor could profit from medical care, though unlikely to become rich.
Beginning June 4 the Burlington Route adds a new fast daily night train from Kansas City and St. Joseph to Nebraska and Colorado. Kansas City departs 9 45 p m and St Joseph at midnight arriving Denver 6 20 p m. The service is in addition to existing trains to the west northwest north and east with California weekly excursions and twice weekly tourist sleepers. For details contact J C Bramhall in Kansas City L W Wakeley in St Louis and Howard Elliott in St Joseph.
Through Northwestern Lines offering reduced rate summer tours to fishing and resort regions in Northern Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan peninsula and east via the Great Lakes. Tickets on sale daily with return good until Oct 31 authorized by A L Fisher Tray Pass Agent 823 Main Street Kansas City.
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