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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1905
Page
2
The Sedalia Sentinel lists subscription rates by mail and carrier, noting daily and monthly options and the paper being the official city paper. A lengthy discussion on billboard advertising criticizes its profitability and calls for regulatory scrutiny of insurance company spending and publicity practices.
Reports from New York suggest major life insurers face overhaul beyond the Equitable. A squabble among Equitable officers revealed broader issues. Era Magazine notes another prominent New York company spent about 17 million dollars on management expenses last year as criticism grows.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a internal remedy that purifies blood and mucous surfaces. It claims endorsement by a top physician, promises testimonials, and lists price and supplier details. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation and a Missouri Pharmacy slogan.
Postmaster Glenn will close the post office at noon tomorrow. Two mail deliveries will run in the business district and one in the residence area before closing at 12 o'clock for the day.
An advertisement for Dr. Pierce offering free confidential advice to women with health disorders. It claims examinations are unnecessary, promotes the “Favorite Prescription,” and markets the Common Sense Medical Adviser book. It includes testimonials and prices for book bindings and mail requests.
A 1896 account describes the Dom Viazemsky slum near Anitiskoff Palace with five two story buildings housing over 14,000, including thieves, prostitutes and labourers. It portrays disease, crime, subletting beds for kopecks a night and a volatile mix of society’s dregs awaiting revolution for profit.
Notice to Sidrewalk Contractors from Sedalia Missouri seeks bids to construct brick sidewalks on the west side of Ohio Avenue. Bids due September 4, 1905. council may reject all bids. publication of notice required in local papers for two insertions.
Aug 25 1905 council resolves it necessary to grade and pave the east west alley between Fourth and Fifth streets in Block 15 of Smith and Martin's First Addition Sedalia Missouri. The work aims to bring the alley to full width and grade with Osage Avenue to Kentucky Avenue with vitrified brick paving to be laid.
An old time health ad warns men over age about kidney and bladder disorders linked to enlarged prostate. It touts Foley's Kidney Cure as a remedy, citing Mr. Rodney Burmell of Reck Port Missouri who claims improvement after two bottles.
EF F P Licklider's Cash Grocery lists low prices on sugar coffee oats syrup crackers and baking powder with 4 items per carton. The ad promises fresh country butter eggs and vegetables plus delivery anywhere in the city to convince customers a trial order will save money.
Tomorrow is wash day. Send family washing to Monarch Laundry at 606 South Ohio Street. Call phone 183 and our wagon will call.
Emma Jackson colored was fined $50 by Magistrate Truxel on a vagrancy charge this morning and granted a stay of execution to depart the city. The item notes local health claims and promotes Foley's Kidney Cure sold by W. E Bard Drug Co.
Fragmentary item notes a product or brand named Scastonia with a bearer claim. No clear event or context is identifiable from the readable text.
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