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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1902
Page
2
A call to aid the needy at Christmas contrasts with Springfield Missouri’s success in raising 150000 dollars in twelve days to lure Missouri Pacific. The piece urges Sedalia to match the effort, arguing its location and agricultural wealth give it advantages over Springfield for industrial growth.
George Rhodes, a farmer near Sedalia, found a mud hole on the Sedalia and Cole Camp road with a board in the center bearing the notice No fishing or skating on this pond. He dismounted and waded to read it, then left amused by the sign.
Advertisement urges readers to buy town lots in Ber ta Texas offering cheap home building and a chance to share in profits. It invites inquiries for full particulars to James Barker, M K T railway agent, at 518 Wainwright Building St Louis Missouri.
From the Sedalia Bazoo files December 17 1877 note trains on time wood $5 a cord dead hogs spreading good moonlight epizootic scare fading Christmas a week away Tom Darwin in the city Major O B Gunn back from the front Bazoo song on the streets teams loading merchandise for interior ladies out for the fresh air General Smith Boonville bridge engineer in city J Pry Osage division M K T at the lves illness of Albert Parker visible on street Mr Wim M Gentry rheumatism convalescence shoemaker proclaims a sign poem about mending shoes
A local advertisement touts a fine assortment of cigars described as “the kind that please” available at McGowan's. The notice emphasizes a presentable gift option and invites shoppers to visit the store for a selection.
Pehl's Wholesale House at 115 West Second Street offers comb and brush sets and a selection of liquors and wines for the holidays. They are a distributor of Anheuser-Busch beers and premium whiskies and wines from California and Europe with guaranteed low prices.
The notice names C. C. Lawson attorney at law in the Katie building and references Bell Telephone at 467. The fragment indicates a private loan matter connected to Lawson and the Bell system location.
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