Prairie View Highland News and Social Notes
Prairie View Highland December items report a new baby boy for Charles Feckman and a nicely recovering mother. Local engagements include Miss Lamm’s diploma and job in Nevada, Miss Helen Norton visiting Sedalia, and Misses Jennie Lois McCord with Willard. Thanksgiving hall gathering featured songs and speeches, with prayers of gratitude and a reminder to be thankful for blessings. Foley's Honey and Tar advertised as throat and lung remedy.
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Gladden
Mother
Babe
Jennie Norton
Santa Claus
Miss Lamm
Theisaster
Ormond & Klueber Jewelry and Gift Stock
A Sedalia shop at 317 Ohio Street promotes picking out holiday keepsakes and near ready engraving services. They tout a complete stock of beautiful useful and ornamental items and a refined line of opera glasses offered at affordable prices.
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Ormond & Klueber
Sedalia
Despised Bluebottle Fly and Fake Whisky Aging Process
A historic account describes how counterfeit whisky is aged using cobwebs and spiders to simulate years of maturation. It explains label printing, aging techniques, tobacco water, sawdust dusting, and the creation of synthetic aged appearance. It notes most whisky in bars was synthetic, made from water, spirits, coloring, and flavoring to mimic age.
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Prof
Wiley
United States Agricultural Department
McGinley Sells Malthy MCCO Coffee Fresh Roast
McGinley announces daily roasting of Malthy MCCO Coffee sold locally. The vendor highlights fresh beans and regular roasting to attract customers.
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McGinley
Malthy
MCCO
Wine Aged by a Spider
A People’s Friend writer reframes the bluebottle fly as a natural cleaner. It is described as a nuisance yet a benefactor, attracted to tainted meat and decay. Eggs hatch into maggots, then a pupa, leading to adult flies that spread eggs and remove garbage en route to reproduction.
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People
Pennsylvania Monument Dedicated in Vicksburg Park
Governor Pennypacker and a Pennsylvanian party arrived in Vicksburg to participate in the dedication ceremony for the recently erected Pennsylvanian monument in the National Military Park. The monument on Pennsylvania Place will be formally transferred this afternoon with Governor Varceman of Mississippi and his staff in attendance. An elaborate program is planned.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Pennypacker
National Military Park
United States
Pennsylvania Place
Varceman
Mississippi
Monarch Laundry Promises Courteous Service and Wide Delivery
Notice to shop men announces first class machinery and long experience. Courteous treatment to all. Wagons go everywhere. Monarch Laundry operated by Chas Van Antwerp Prov.
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Monarch
Chas. van Antwerp
Pettis County Stockmen Marketing Stock in St Louis Markets
Pettis county stockmen who marketed stock on the St Louis markets this week include Monsees & Hare of Smithton and S D Porter of Dunksburg. A kidney or bladder trouble can always be cured by using Foley's Kidney Cure in time. Sold by Arlington pharmacy.
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Pettis County
St. Louis
Monsees & Hare
Smithton
S. D. Porter
Dunksburg
Foley
Arlington Pharmacy
Sciatica and its mystifying left leg predominance
A historical columnist explains sciatica as rheumatic nerve pain from the sciatic nerve, noting continuous pain aggravated by pressure and often affecting the left leg. The piece discusses causes, symptoms, and a speculative link to habitual left-side sitting and cold pressure.
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Chalmers
Chicago Board Faces Janitor Revolt And Union Fear
The Chicago Board of Education struggles with widespread complaints against school janitors due to negligence and impertinence. They hesitate to discipline to avoid union trouble, though some seek decisive action. A rail of health ads follow, including medical tips and a 35 cent reference to Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea from W. E. Bard Drug Co.
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Chicago
Board of Education
Hollister
Rocky Mountain Tea
W. E. Bard Drug Co
Pierce Remedies Endorsed By Medical Authorities In 19th Century Ad
Leading medical writers praise Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription as non alcoholic safe tonics. Glycerine extracts from Black Cherrybark Bloodroot Queen's root and Golden Seal are cited for digestion liver and lung conditions. The ad urges reading a free booklet from Dr Pierce at Buffalo NY and promotes Pleasant Pellets for liver and bowel relief.
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Dr. Pierce
Pierce
Doctor Pierce
Black Cherry Park
Queen’s Root
Bartholow
King
Scudder
Hare
Wood
Johnson
Coe
Ellingwood
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Thes
Paine, Hale
Common Sense
Masonic Lodge Meets for Second Degree Work
Sedalia lodge No. 236 A F and A M calls a special meeting Friday December 8 at 7 30 PM for Second degree work. All Fellowcrafts invited. W G Stanley, W M. E E Codding, Secretary. Resolved, use Maltby MCCO Coffee.
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Sedalia Iodze No
A. F. and
New Paper Mill Planned at Sunset Falls Washington
In Tacoma Washington December 8 capitalists linked with a major pulp and paper firm seek to build a 1 million dollar mill at Sunset Falls Snohomish county employing 400 men The site near Index offers 20000 horsepower from the falls using spruce and poplar The venture secures Great Northern railway concessions and will ship pulp to the Orient aboard Mr Hill’s steamers.
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Tacoma
Wash
United States
J. J. Hill
Sunset Falls
Snohomish County
Index
Great Northern Railway
Seaboard
Orient
Hill
Longan’s Sedalia Steam Laundry Ad Promises Backed-Up Quality
The notice promotes Longan’s Sedalia Steam Laundry at 216 and 218 Lamine Street with phone contact 154. It asserts confidence in its laundry service and invites customers to try it, echoing a bold, colloquial boast characteristic of Josh Billings style.
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Shoe Store
Ohio Street
Prairie View Highland
Charles Feckman
Mrs. Ebersole
John Yeager
Maplewood
Helen Norton
Libby
George Lamm
Llis Business College
Nevada
Jennie
Lois McCord
Willard
Lois
Robert Baldwin
Sedana
Arlington
Pharmacy
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Missouri , Kansas Telephone Co
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J. C. Lovrien
Bluebottle
Foleyshoney
Pennsylvania
Buck
Advice
Chicago Chronicle
W. GO. Stanley
W. M. E. E. Codding
McCo Coffee
Buster Brown
Washington
Josh Billings
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Frisco
Chicago & Eastern Illinois
R. R
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