Worrell's Exterminator and Local Society Notes
Local society items list visits and travel of Holden Sedalia and Jefferson City residents, noting trips to Warrensburg Hughesville Kansas City and Chicago. Also advertises Worrell's Exterminator for mosquitos and a Wood's opera house appearance featuring Eddie Girard in Natural Gas with a large cast and a Maltese terrier cornering anecdote from New York World.
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Worrell
Plaza
S. Ohio Street
Chas. Pudry
Hallie Hickesley
Warrensburg
Clarence Hackett
Warsaw
I. T. Bronson
East Fifth
West Sixth
Edith Preshaw
Nelle Ayres
Hughesville
Miss Grace Reed Sowers Maltese Terrier Corner
A young woman, Grace Reed, operates a Maltese terrier business from 122 West Twenty-seventh Street offering puppies at a premium. She keeps the dogs on a Hempstead farm and claims a growing scarcity threatens extinction, framing this as a new financial corner in the dog world. The tale links to rings and brides in a long digression on engagement customs.
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Grover
Finance
J. Pierpont Morgan
Rockefellers
Joe Leiter
Napoleons of Finance
West Twenty-seventh Street
Ives
Grace Reed
Empire Builders
Miss Reed
Iss Reed
Hempstead
R. I
Egypt
Spain
Names For Summer Drinks
A New Orleans Times-Democrat anecdote reports a soda fountain clerk noting confusing new summer drink names. A traveler with a red bandana survey shows a wary consumer considering value and a sign reading fresh vaccine received daily, prompting a simple purchase.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Sleepwalking prevention device using metal sheet
A technique to stop sleep walking by placing a sheet of metal by the bed. The resting sleeper steps onto the cold surface, draws the leg back, and after a few tries yields to lie down again. This belt of metal aims to disrupt the wandering episode and encourage returning to bed.
Astrology and palm readers thrive in common life
Blackwood's Magazine notes how astrology chiromancy and related arts persist in modern times with palm readers claiming to reveal lines of life and health and predict evils for a fee. The piece slyly compares practitioners to fictional spinners of fate and cites social habits from handwriting to crystal balls.
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Blackwood
Cadwallader
Peregrine Pickle
Heyraddin Maugrabin
Galeotti
Jupiter
Mercury
Venus
Saturn
Mars
Ninety Five Years of Active Life in Philadelphia
The Quaker City papers praise Frederick Fraley who recently celebrated his ninety fifth birthday as proof that a quiet life can sustain vigor. Fraley served as treasurer of the Centennial exposition and is now president of the Philadelphia Board of Trade.
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Frederick Fraley
Philadelphia
Fraley
Wood's New Opera House Opens with Natural Gas Spectacle
Sedalia’s remodeled Wood’s Opera House hosts Donnelly & Girard with 27 artists in Natural Gas. The venue gains 400 extra seats, marble lobby, art glass, improved ventilation, and two second street entrances. Three record-breaking crowds expected for Friday and Saturday performances.
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Sedalia
Wood
Donnelly Girard
New York
Chicago
Col. Sherwood
Herald
Tootle’s
Joseph
Nice
Coate
Opera House
Kansas City
Second Street
Wood’s
Fashion notes on fabrics and a playful essay on rejuvenation
The passage surveys gauzes and transparent fabrics in fashion, notes popular tints, and shifts to a satirical critique of Chinese cooking and aging. It cites Mr. Alt haus in Lancet predicting dramatic youth restoration via galvanic treatment, claiming four to six weeks can erase aging and restore vitality.
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Hare
Althaus
Lancet
Bagdad
New York Counts Arrive at Byard and Guenther's
The notes titled New York Counts arrived at Byard and Guenther's, with the store listing the latest counts for the market. The item reflects stock movement and availability in the New York area.
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N. Y
Byard & Guenther’s
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J. G. Perdue
Cora
Holden
Julia Hughes
Bettie Hearn
Colorado
Ben Klein
Cornelia
Oscar Klein
Rosell Sutton
J. M. Brown
Stewart and Cooper
Harriet van Antwerp
Katherine Huffman
Mary Flaven
Conductor Temple
Miss Flaven
Miss Mary Temple
Michigan
Carrie Clarke
St. Paul
Minnesota
Mayme Younger
Sedalia Millinery Company
Joe Wilder
Alma Gass
Miss Gass
Fannie Smith
Jefferson City Tribune
Jessie Heath
John N. Taylor Music Company
St. Louis
Miss Heath
W. Sharp
Eddie Girard
Edward Garvie
James McDuff
Chinatown
Jessie Gardner
Jack and Beanstalk
Mullally Sisters
Bobby Gaylor
Julia Sutherland
Lew Sutherland
Mara Mollyneaux
Kitty Malone
Elsie Mackay
Jeffries—Lewis Co
a_ bevy
Bluff’s Natural Gas Exchange
Donnelly & Girard
Wood's New Opera House
Donelly & Girard
Russia
South Ohio Street
Charles Lamb
Servant- Harker Drug Co
Ance
North Ohio Street
DR. T. Felix GO
Raud’s
L. A.ayre
Wanamaker’s
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