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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1899
Page
5
A Washington Star interview quotes a department official on typewriters highlighting that steady, reliable writers outperform showy speed. He argues medium pace yields best output, warns against excessive erasing, and notes older writers often produce more accurate work than younger fast writers. He adds that reliability surpasses speed.
A Boston Traveler account compares Gen Otis to a desk editor as a correspondent relays dispatches on the Philippine war. Early cables claim insurgents killed and captured, with Otis offering bounties and soldiers deserting Aguinaldo. Subsequent reports claim the opposite.
A historical ad-style notice announces free consultations and eye ear nose throat services at 209 East Sixth Street in Sedalia Missouri. It promises free treatment for catarrh and lists cures for syphilis gonorrhea and other sexual and chronic conditions with mail order remedies and money back guarantees.
A traveling salesman recalls anecdotes from a six month western trip. In Julian Nebraska a hotelkeeper is described as a deft teller of tall tales with odd guests including a bronzed sea captain and an Eskimo with a fondness for absinthe frappe. The drummer notes the hotelier’s knack for twisting reality.
Wars have no effect on holiday trading at Ramsey's Racket. The store reports large complete stock and selling more Christmas goods than ever. Shoppers urged to come early as best items go fast. Children's toys and books advertised at low prices.
Dr J C Dysart of 209 East Sixth Street Sedalia Missouri is a medical graduate of the Medical University of Louisville Kentucky a post graduate of the Polyclinic New York and served at the Women and Babies Hospital of New York before being appointed Regimental Surgeon in the late war.
For La Grippe and colds, no head impact like quinine. Price 25 cents. Best headache remedy from Fleischmann's Pharmacy at corner Fourth and Ohio, Sedalia, Missouri. For Sale five room one story house on Vermont Street near car line. Public school and grocery stores nearby. High ground lot with seven shade trees, walks, outbuildings, new fence, fruits and shrubs, cistern water. Terms: part cash down plus eight dollars per month. Price 8600 no interest. Call 1509 Vermont Street Sedalia Missouri. Cheapest bargain in town.
A New York Telegraph recounts a chaotic night at Ramsey's Racket in Sedalia Missouri where a trained bear disrupted a dining room, drank 27 bottles of beer, and caused chaos with a loose snake and malfunctioning tubes. Electric bells replaced speaking tubes afterward.
No Time Like the Present urges coal orders as prices rise. Stanley Coal Co promises prompt delivery of hard and soft coal. George W. Albcorn opens Thursday December 7 in a store room at Ohio and Sixth streets featuring spare ribs and other pork products in a bone yard.
An advertisement notes limited time tablet sale with prices reduced from eighteen dollars to twelve dollars. It lists C. H. Heynen on N. Ohio Street and promotes travel service on the Frisco line from St. Louis to San Antonio with a new daily Observation Sleepers feature starting November 12.
Frank Williams of 108 Osage street advertises good tea at market prices and furnished rooms with or without board. Electric fans keep diners cool as the business invites trade and promises customer satisfaction.
A Pittsburg News note discusses the sale of Dickens early petty cash book kept in Edward Blackmore's Lincoln's Inn Field office. The faded ledger, with Dickens earliest known signature, fetched 95 pounds, illustrating the value of autograph presentation copies and manuscripts for future fame.
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