This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 10 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1903
Page
3
Low rates via the Rock Island from June 1 to September 30 invite inquiries from ticket agents. The Colorado Flyer departs Kansas City each evening and arrives in Colorado the next morning.
A June notice from the M K and T railroad teased fortune telling about Texas potential. A Dana Illinois correspondent thanked them for literary enlightenment while warning of a misdirected fortune reading and sent a personal photograph claiming a 38 year old mother’s luck, illustrating the era’s strange exchanges.
The M K and T Railway announces August 1 changes to schedules moving trains from San Antonio via Waco S A and A P to Flatonio and Southern Pacific to a direct route from St Louis to San Antonio on their own rails. The Katy Flyer becomes a solid vestibuled train with through sleepers to Galveston San Antonio and Mexico City and reclining chair cars to St Louis San Antonio and Galveston. The revision improves service to Temple Belton Taylor Smithville Lockhart San Marcos and New Braunfels and shortens travel between St Louis and Houston and Galveston. Trains Nos 3 and 4 will run faster between Kansas City and Texas. Sleeping car service starts between Shreveport and San Antonio via Dallas.
A Missouri Kansas & Texas Bay official's son, Master Jonnie, quips that only good boys go to heaven, then decides he will be bad to join the rest of his family, amid a light domestic anecdote.
A young railroad traveler called Dick Grey returns to Brownsville after twenty years to find his boyhood friend Jack Strong running a store. Grey plans a land deal with Henderson over a coal vein, offering Strong a cut but is rebuffed when Strong refuses to betray his principles, choosing self respect over easy wealth.
With unexcelled facilities for handling all classes of laundry work the Monarch Laundry offers the public a service that is modern and perfect in every detail. CHAS. VAN ANTWERP, Prop. Phones 183.
Through tickets to New York or Philadelphia via the Lehigh Valley Railroad allow a stop over at Niagara Falls without extra charge. The offer applies to through passengers and enables sightseeing before continuing to destination.
Advertises a fortified cod liver oil emulsion claim as gentle on the stomach in hot weather. Appeals to invalids with weak lungs and pale constitutions and offers a free trial bottle via mail from Ozomullion Food Co. New York requesting 10 cents for postage.
Movements listed show M K and T trains arriving and departing overnight. No 6 Katy Flyer stops only at important points with departures around 12 50 a m and 8 50 p m. No 64 way freight operates with a 6 15 a m schedule.
Train timetable snippets show southbound and northbound departures with times from Sedalia Warsaw and crossing lines. No. 53 local departs 6:40 am on Sundays. No. 49 and No. 117 routes appear with morning and afternoon runs. Directions reference Sedalia Warsaw and Southwestern lines with various departure windows.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.