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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1901
Page
7
City of Sedalia invites bids or proposals for replacing 60 condemned wooden and defective sidewalks on the east side of Grand avenue from Main street south to Second street with brick sidewalks. Bids due by 5 p.m. December 16, 1901. City reserves right to reject any bids. C E Baker City Clerk.
Notice to sidewalk contractors under an ordinance condemned wooden and defective sidewalks on the east side of Lafayette Avenue Sedalia Missouri from Third Street to Broadway Street. It calls for brick sidewalk construction where needed and bids due by December 16 1961 with the city reserving right to reject all bids. City Clerk E Baker affixes seal December 2 1961.
A local advertisement announces $1,000 and up loan offers at the lowest rates on Pettis county realty with farm loans at 5 percent interest and partial payment privileges. J. H. Bothwell, attorney and counselor, Sedalia National Bank Building.
Kansas City announces winter travel deals with round trip fares to winter resorts. Tickets sold for December 25 to 27 with return limit December 31, and another sale runs daily with tickets valid for return until June 1, 1902. Rates are described as very low.
The Southern railway announces for the winter of 1901 and 1902 the most superb service ever offered. It operates its own lines over the entire South and forms a key link in the travel highway between the north and south, Florida, Cuba, Mexico, the Pacific Coast and Central America.
The passenger department releases a pictorial booklet describing winter resorts in the South. A copy costs two cents and can be obtained by sending the stamp to George B. Allen A G P A St Louis Mo.
A description of best localities for game and fish in the South includes state game laws and guides with hotel rates. The advertisement states the book can be secured by sending a two cent postage stamp to G. B. Allen, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Southern Railway, St. Louis, Missouri.
Effective October 15 1901 excursion rates are placed on sale by the South Western railway to all principal winter resorts of the South and Southwest Ask any agent of the Southern railway for full information.
Mrs J C Chatman of Chicago is visiting relatives here, staying at a local home as she spends time with family in the area.
Satisfied people herald Foley's Honey and Tar as a splendid remedy for coughs colds or sore lungs with endorsement from all who use it. Sold by all druggists.
Mrs. Tom Tewmey of West Third Street has recovered from a serious illness and is able to be about again.
A medicinal prompt touts FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR as effective against colds coughs and lagrippe. Warns against substitutes and references available drug lists.
Miss Ina Dunlap daughter of Dr and Mrs Dunlap of Moniteau street will return from Emporia Kansas to spend the Christmas holidays She is a student at Kansas State Normal at Emporia
Ex president Grover Cleveland appears in a Copenhagen interview cited by Sore News criticising imperialism and colonial acquisitions. He says he supports home rule and believes each nation should improve its own affairs, while questioning the value of U S possession of the Danish West Indies.
A sentry from an Indian regiment at Tien Tsin killed two comrades before being restrained. German troops then engaged Punjabs, resulting in three German privates killed and a German officer wounded. Germans confined to barracks awaiting orders.
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