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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1901
Page
3
Missouri farm observers report buying trips to Iowa this fall for farm needs and seed, while politics in the state show few candidates for supreme court benches. The ongoing ads promote pure well water and Angora goats amid the Belgian hare boom, reflecting shifting agricultural interests.
Higbee Missouri adopts an ordinance barring children under two from public streets after 8 p m except for special reasons. The writer questions extending limits to all men and suggests wives and firesides as well.
A cat specialist warns that silk mufflers weaken the throat and make wearers vulnerable. He notes a man without a muffler in cold weather is at risk, implying his suitability to treat or advise such patients.
A historic critique outlines informal rules presidents must follow abroad and at home. It notes restrictions on travel spaces aboard foreign ships, visits to foreign embassies, and ceremonial seating, emphasizing custom over law. The piece frames these conventions as safeguards for ceremonial respect and national dignity.
An outlay exceeding 1 000 600 dollars to make this Cyclopaedia the standard authority with 40 eminent American scholars as editors and 3 000 contributors. It includes a complete atlas and gazetteer with more than 70 000 subjects and 30 000 signed by specialists.
The Appletons Cyclopaedia now includes updated United States and British census figures, with population data by counties for states and cities revised or rewritten. Articles on foreign nations, South Africa, China, Cuba, and the Philippines updated. new plates and colored maps added. notable bios like McKinley and Roosevelt updated. edited under Rossiter Johnson.
Max O'Rell's latest work Her Royal Highness Woman is praised for its terse playful style and refined handling of love and matrimony. Balzac's two volume English edition from Laird & Lee is celebrated as a brilliant dramatic collection with vivid character portrayals.
A. Maynard Barbour’s That Mainwaring Affair has reached a seventh edition. Robert J. Linden, former Philadelphia police chief, praises it as an absorbing detective novel with convincing, non impossible plot twists. It remains fascinating, well printed, and bound, selling for $1.50.
Publisher J. B. Lippincott announces a new Voynich novel titled Jack Raymond. The Gadfly author claims it will be the most successful book yet and predicts wide appeal and strong holiday sales based on prior record.
W L Jones advertises a general transfer business offering coal and wood hauling garbage hauling and moving services. Telephone Queen City 444.
Our social sale moves stock rapidly and pleases customers again this week. We bought the best stock this year in our years of merchandising and offer prices to insure big business. Every department is complete with bargains in each one. Follow the crowds to Carl A Guenther's 310 Ohio Street.
J. H. Bothwell, attorney and counselor at the Sedalia National Bank Building, advertises loans from $1,000 and up with lowest rates and best terms on Pettis county realty. Farm loans listed at 5 percent interest with partial payment privileges.
P Hoffman offers a free White House Cook Book with 590 pages to any purchaser of Buck's Range or Cook Store within thirty days. This limited incentive aims to boost sales and attract shoppers to their store during the promotional period.
Dr T T Major and Son advertise limited time dental work with low prices due to crop failures. The notice lists gold, amalgam, and cement fillings, gold crowns, and bridge work with promises of painless extraction, at 410 Ohio Street opposite the courthouse.
A small advertisement notes Red Cross Ball Blue as the best in the world with large two ounce packages priced at 5 cents each.
City council meets at 7 45 pm with seven aldermen present. A concrete sidewalk contract for Dai Whi Mo Court is approved. requests to reduce the Elite bowling hall license are referred to the ordinance committee. A petition from 117 citizens to close gambling dens is noted and filed. Adjournment set for Wednesday at 7 30 pm to review tax matters.
Taylor Cain advertises a high priced stove at $1.00 after reducing $1.00 daily from $45.00 starting November 20. The price will drop to $1.00 if unsold after 44 days as the season ends. The seller aims to move the item regardless of cost.
The Morris and Bertman Coal Co offers coal at 2.50 and 3.00 dollars per 2000 pounds and wood at 3.25 and 3.50 dollars per cord with correct measure.
Annie L. Homan and James O. Anthony wed at the courthouse in Versailles. Louis and Abe Wenger plan a Monday trip to Chicago for the Polled Durham Breeder's Association meeting. Mrs. T R Townley dies at her home after a illness.
A funeral was conducted Tuesday afternoon at the M. E. church by Rev Bus for a woman about 60 years old. Basil Moore of near St Martin was thrown from a horse last Sunday injuring his shoulder and breaking his arm below the elbow.
The funeral for Larry Shy took place this morning at the Baptist Bethlehem church six miles south of town. Pallbearers were High School class of 1894 members Glenn Wood Harvey D Dow Damon Porter Oliver Stanley James Quinn and Prof Irwin Rautenstrauch.
Dr J M Mitchell, longtime Knob Noster resident and former physician, died at his home at 7 o clock this morning after a long illness. He leaves his wife two sons Robert and Will and daughter Mrs Maggie Irvin. The family was present at his death and the remains will be buried in the city cemetery.
An unknown man broke the plate glass window in front of the Liest la loon on Ohio Street last night. He was fired at by an officer and released after paying damages. The incident appears to have resulted from a friendly scuffle.
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