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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1903
Page
3
In June the M K and T Railway advertised that they cannot tell fortunes but offer publications on Texas and its possibilities. A Dana Illinois correspondent replied with a plea for fortune insight and a personal photo of herself and child, noting her poverty and age. The exchange ends with the woman receiving a character reading.
The M K and T Ry announces radical schedule changes effective August 1. Trains will run from St Louis to San Antonio over their own rails. The Katy Flyer becomes a solid vestibuled through service to Galveston San Antonio and Mexico City with reclining cars. New sleeping car service will link Shreveport and San Antonio via Dallas. This boosts access to Temple Belton Taylor Smithville Lockhart San Marcos and New Braunfels and shortens time to Houston and Galveston.
A Missouri Kansas & Texas official boasts of his bright son Johnnie. When his wife says only good boys go to heaven, Johnnie replies that he’d be bad and go with the rest of the family, a humorously blunt remark from the child.
Lois Helmway nearly falls into a granite quarry when a blast shakes the chasm. Stanford saves her with a held derrick rope and shields her as the mass crashes below. After the peril, he admits his love and proposes marriage.
The article recounts how Florence Maybrick first sang The Holy City in 1888 aboard a Mersey vessel where Michael Maybrick later revealed the manuscript. Publishers rejected the somber tone despite the song’s later phenomenal success amid Maybrick family ties and Mrs Maybrick’s murder conviction in England.
An advertisement claims 91 of 100 childhood diseases stem from indigestion and that Kodol Dyspepsia Care works as well for children as adults. A Nashville mother reports her three year old recovered after one bottle, endorsing the product sold by W. E Bard Drug Co.
M., K. & T. trains depart and arrive at specified times. The Katy Flyer No. 6 stops only at important points with departures around 12:50 a.m. and evening times noted. Way freight No. 64 runs with a 6:15 a.m. schedule.
Albany Georgia resident W S Philpot reports relief from a bilious attack after taking a single De Witt s Little Early Risers pill. He praises its small size and pleasant effect, claiming it outperformed calomel and blue mass. Sold by W E Bard Drug Co.
Fragmentary timetable notes departures and arrivals for multiple trains. Mentions Sedalia Warsaw Southwestern service, No 1 and No 49 K C D, with local and Sunday exceptions and various times listed. Readers are left to infer full schedule details from the snippets.
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