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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1902
Page
3
The Sentinel erred Sunday with awards. Charles Pfeiffer won the house plant prize for a hand somest display of flowers seen in Sedalia.
An advertisement proclaims a single package yields two quarts of baby medicine with directions and endorses Rocky Mountain Tea as ideal for babies and children from W E Bard Drug Company.
Mr and Mrs J A Biddle and their children visited with Charles Brown and family and returned to Rich Hill this morning Mrs Brown and children accompanied them for a short visit.
Ladies can wear smaller shoes after using Allen's Foot-Ease powder. It shakes into shoes to relieve corns bunions and swollen feet while preventing blisters callous and sore spots. A trial package is offered by mail from Allen S. Olmeted Le Roy NY.
An advertisement from W E Bard Drug Co promotes Rocky Mountain Tea claiming it makes children eat sleep and grow and fosters a healthy family for 35 cents.
Miss Anne Donnelly of West Fifth Street begins teaching at the Cottage school, formerly the Shy school, located about fifteen miles southwest of Sedalia.
Hard coal sales pitch urging quick orders before price advance. Includes contact phone number 263 and a promotional prompt to place orders now.
A note from W. E. Bard Ding Company suggests giving children Rocky Mountain Tea weekly to keep them well. Arthur Scott from Charles Fo West plans a week’s vacation near Lamonte starting this afternoon.
Advertisement claims Botanic Blood Balm cures eczema itching skin humors scabs scales blisters pimples boils carbuncles and body ailments by purifying blood. It offers free samples from the Blood Balm Co. and lists Sedalia dealer W. E. Bard Drug Co with optional free medical advice.
Mr and Mrs P F Huff of Rockville Mo who spent fair week with Mrs F M Hughes returned home Sunday.
An old advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue laundry blueing in a large 2 oz package priced at five cents. The copy urges buyers who use Ball Blue to switch to Red Cross for better results.
Mrs F D Lohse of Boonville returned home Sunday night after spending a fair week with her brothers Frank and Walter Gibbons.
C. Mellor of Western Electric Supply, St. Louis, is the guest of relatives and friends here. He is hosted by local families and will stay for a visit.
A London Lancet report rejects mushrooms as a meat substitute noting high water content but low proteids. It calls mushrooms easily digestible with some dietetic value, though inferior to meat eggs and milk, and highlights potassium salts and culinary appeal. Contained letters also recount a humorous mother child exchange about language learning and mispronounced questions.
Two children left in St. Pauls churchyard wander among graves and place laurel wreaths on a single tomb. The girl explains she is sharing fair as the mother questions the act. The anecdote is cited from the New York Times.
A Milwaukee Sentinel note extols children six years old for rapid language acquisition and bilingual ease, showing youngsters mastering English while many parents struggle. A vivid anecdote describes a child correcting a mother on forms of the verb to be, illustrating early linguistic zeal.
A Somerset village tombstone recalls Doctress Anne Pounsberry who died December 11 1813 aged 73. She was a seventh daughter of a seventh daughter believed to have healing powers using herbs and charms and a notorious recipe for king's evil involving toad legs.
In Brussels during a royal reception the Chinese prince Chen is met by a marching tune called the Chinese national anthem. The alarmed interpretor explains no such anthem exists in China. A European composer once sold rights to perform the tune at Chinese dignitary events, earning him a tidy sum.
Advertisement lists rail or travel sale to Western Ohio and Indiana cities including Louisville Kentucky with four September travel dates the 3rd 9th 16th and 23rd offering one fare plus two dollars good for 30 days to various regional destinations.
Hon. William G. Ewing ex judge of the superior court of Chicago will lecture on Christian science at the Y M C A hall in Sedalia next Tuesday evening September 2. No admission fee or ticket required. Judge Ewing serves on the International Board of Lectureship of the Mother church of Christian Science Boston Mass.
Sedalia residents hear a resident painter and carpenter from 1515 East Fifth street recount back pain relief after using Doan's Kidney Pills from W. E. Bard Drug Company. He praises the product and urges readers to remember the Doan's name with sole U.S. agency Forster-Milburn Co. of Buffalo.
A burglary on West Fifth street disrupted the Bard home while they stayed Monday with Mrs. Bard’s parents on East Broad Way. The intruders left silverware untouched and secured reportedly nothing of value.
Washington Star notes a Massachusetts launch of a seven masted schooner, the largest sailing vessel afloat. It introduces the coined terms for the extra masts spanker figger driver and pusher, suggesting a playful parallel with golf clubs and inviting imagination for further names.
On his sixtieth birthday Grand Secretary Yungli of Peking declined gifts lacking intrinsic value. He accepted gold storks and deer, gold Buddhas, jade vases, diamond belts and a gold God of Longevity in a jade temple, but reverently rejected scrolls and tablets unless ancient.
Boonville Missouri August 26 David Friess died here Monday He was one of Boonville s pioneer citizens and was 64 years old
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