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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1899
Page
4
An ad claims Rocky Mountain Tea can transform a person’s appearance to win affection, suggesting it can help lovers and advising to ask a druggist for details.
Officials from the city and county discuss fine touches to ready the diamond for a Saturday game. Many workers claim the event is serious and will showcase real effort, with both sides training hard to outperform the other. Dan Cooper is cited as the rival target in a playful line about making the opposition “eat soup.” The ad text ends with a drug warning and product mention for eWitt’s Hazel Salve.
Candy Palace announces the first of the season California grapes are now available by phone order at 218. The note highlights fresh fruit arrivals and a contact option for customers seeking early-season produce.
Local proprietor planning to leave the city puts the Sate-Restaurant on the market at a fair price. Address Y Z, care SENTINEL.
A note requests mail be sent to the Sentinel office for Saee i Geek Ok. The message references a typewriter and directs delivery to the newspaper.
For rent furnished or unfurnished rooms with good board in a prime location. Address Rooms care of SENTINEL.
Rental notice for four fine rooms with bath available immediately. Unfurnished or partially furnished options and good board next door at 203 East Seventh Street.
Money loaned on goods stored. L. F. Mackey at 113 West Main Street advertises the store.
Inside history traces Othello the elephant from Tiny the six year old in England to John L. Sullivan trained by a famed negro handler. The majestic twenty two year old Forepaugh Sells giant joins the current consolidation in Sedalia after a storied lineage among Barnum and Bailey rivalries.
Special passenger trains on the Sedalia Warsaw Southwestern railway Aug 23 and 24 will carry passengers to and from all stations. Schedule details include departures from Sedalia and Warsaw with specific times and a round trip ticket option from Warsaw. Ticket prices vary by destination and the pass includes circus admission.
Quick, simple cure claim for constipation and renewed vigor by De Witt’s Little Early Risers from Harker Drug Co. with trustful servant-trade phrasing. The ad touts fast relief without griping or nausea.
Hygieno water claim touts safety against typhoid and malaria with purer, predigested composition. Obituary notes the death of Myrtle Wright at eighteen after a February illness, detailing faith, funeral at First M. E. Church South, and a hopeful verse tribute for the young girl.
The coolest corner on warm days offers pure ice cream sodas and hundreds of cooling healthful drinks by the Arlington fountain at Harker Drug Co.
Cure claim for a cold using Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets marketed with EW Grove’s signature on each box. Drugstores refund money if it fails to cure. Price listed as 25 cents.
The Flower Carnival entries list numerous participants with bicycles, carriages, and wagons decorated in carnations roses poppies and chrysanthemums. Names include Walker Van Riper Miss Florence Tyree Lee Fowler Mrs W A McCoy Master Victor Small J F Waddell Miss Gusta Cotton Arthur Norris Nelson Goslin Maurine Harris and others. Decorations range from red pink and cream hues to undecided schemes.
All persons having sleeping rooms to let during the coming Street Fair will please leave their addresses at the office on Osage St. E. W. Stevens, Pres. Cosy Brocn, Sec.
A. S. McGowan promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as an honest remedy for consumptives. The ad states it provides relief in very worst cases and claims it can effect a cure in early stages, presenting hopeful language without false promises.
The article chronicles a motif of high standard quality versus low prices dating to the Battle of Standard on Aug 22 1138 and links it to modern shopping with Joe Paradis the meat man offering a demonstration by phone at 120 to prove the claim.
A Curtiss Wisconsin resident credits Foley's Kidney Cure with helping his father. Gro C. Hickock reports satisfaction, while A. S. McGowan endorses the product as effective based on personal use.
Granite Lodge No. 272 A F and A M will meet in special communication this Tuesday evening at 8 oclock for work in the third degree. All masons invited to attend. W S Epperson W M C H Zoux Secretary.
An advertisement touts Rocky Mountain Tea as a fountain of youth, claiming its gentle facial effects leave youth lingering on the cheeks of older age.
Local ad notes children twelve years old and younger can get a haircut at the Alamo barber shop for 15 cents each. The offer highlights affordable grooming targeted at families.
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