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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1902
Page
5
Mrs William Dellaven of Rocheport Missouri died after a fall from a chair on Saturday. At 98 she was the sole survivor of Heard's Fort, an early Howard County military post from frontier days.
An old advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm as a sure internal cure for eczema itching skin humors pimples and sores. It claims to heal by enriching the blood and offers a free sample from the Atlanta company and a Sedalia drugstore.
John Marks, a stockman of Richland in Pulaski county Missouri, asks the St Louis Live Stock Reporter to find a wife for him. Women desiring to marry Mr Marks should write to the Reporter.
We offer the best Windsor coal for cooking and heating at 3.00 per ton with full weight guaranteed. Also available dry and green wood, cord or stove lengths. Call at yards or by phone. A. J. Fults & Co., 2 East Twelfth Street, The Queen City. Phone 21. Bell 84.
Constipation bowel irregularity headache dyspepsia torpid liver bad kidneys rheumatism and disorders incident to sedentary life claim to be positively cured by Rocky Mountain Tea from W. E. Bard Drug Co.
During a reception for the Chinese prince in Brussels, a tomtom melody was played as the Chinese national anthem. The prince and crowd learned it from the interpreter that the tune had been invented by a European years earlier. The composer sold rights to perform it at Chinese dignitary entertainments and profited.
On his sixtieth birthday Grand Secretary Yungli of Peking refused presents lacking intrinsic value. Some offered him solid gold storks and deer, jade vases, diamond belts, and a gold God of Longevity in a jade temple, all gratefully accepted, while scrolls and tablets not of ancient origin were rejected without thanks.
The Washington Star notes a seven masted schooner launched in Massachusetts. It introduces new rigging terms spanker, driver, and pusher as the mast title unique to this vessel, replacing the traditional fore main and mizzen with novel labels and hints at further nomenclature to come.
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