18 Dec 1903
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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1903
Page
1
On January 1 1904 the city public will be invited to inspect the new $43 000 Broadway school building which replaces the old structure. The January 1 anniversary marks the thirty fifth year since the old building’s dedication and no formal ceremony was held. The board of directors and teachers plan a reception with teachers forming the committee to oversee the event.
Fort Leavenworth reports a thousand rounds of fixed ammunition for the twenty eights mounted battery arrived by express and the unit is ready for service at a moment's call. If ordered to the Isthmus it will proceed via San Francisco to the Pacific side under Captain Straub. Bernice Welsh suffocated in a St. Louis basement fire on North Twenty third street. six others injured.
Jefferson De Angelis, a well known comic opera singer, leaped from a second story window at the Hamilton hotel in Wichita Kansas. He was badly injured after striking the storm door roof and pavement. He reentered, met his wife beside a chorus girl’s room, and a severe domestic quarrel followed.
Patrick O Connell the veteran Missouri Pacific engineer residing at 728 East Broadway was severely burned at the Union station Kansas City when a Pintsch gas plug was kicked open igniting a torch. The accident occurred at 5 30 pm as he prepared to start to Sedalia injuring face hands and likely depth of burns to be determined in ten days. He began service in February 1870 and is a Sedalia pioneer with many friends saddened by the incident.
Albert Barton, a Lafayette county native, was arrested in Sedalia Thursday on two counts of forgery. He posted bond of 500 dollars per count and was released with his father J. W. Barton and cousin James A. Whitsell signing the papers. The Barton family is prominent in Lafayette county. Barton had recently worked at Waldman store and held a scholarship at Central Business College before being discharged. A gold watch and other items were found as police searched his rooms. His father plans to bring him home after arranging a settlement with attorney Hon. W. D. Steele.
Chicago dispatch reports about one thousand hack drivers striking for a weekly raise from $12 to $14. Owners with their own rigs continue working. Funeral services will face delays as mourners must use street or rail transport to cemeteries.
Roy Mason and Harry Rankin, two high school students, engaged in a lively fight after noon at Fifth and Massachusetts streets. Constable James Connor intervened and brought them to justice of the peace M. A Ayres, with the case continuing until Saturday morning. Snowball assaults on Connor followed. further details depend on identifying the assailants.
The forecast calls for rain tonight and again Saturday. Temperatures will rise tonight but fall on Saturday, with the colder weather concentrated in the western portion.
Milo White was arraigned in Justice N H Rogers court Thursday evening and sentenced to ten days in the county jail on the charge of petit larceny.
Rev D M Claggett will deliver a Christmas sermon to children at Broadway Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning December 20. His Sunday evening topic will be I Am the Door.
A basement fire at the Candbey building in Dayton Ohio causes a panic among dressmakers on the fifth floor. Five women Minnie Teroxell and two Levinson sisters Mrs Frank Hughes and Elizabeth Saunders are mortally hurt or fatally injured, and elevator man Elias Reeder dies after his car is dropped five stories.
Statistics show holiday business rises from Friday before Christmas onward. Today will be a more comfortable shopping day, with increasing ease tomorrow and Monday. The store opens nights until 9 o'clock starting Saturday evening and offers peak morning service.
The list presents handcraft ideas including embroidered pillow tops, table covers, raffia woven purses and baskets, beadwork in Indian fashion, linen book covers, embroidered laundry bags, ribbons, slippers, Shetland shawls, silk mufflers, linen handkerchiefs, and fancy garters. Also offered are ready made art novelties from the department with prices for doilies, tray cloths, dresser scarfs, pincushions, needle books, opera bags, centerpieces, silk sofa pillows, and more. Prices range from 20 cents to several dollars depending on item.
Catalog of inexpensive silver and gold plated novelties offered as Christmas gifts. Pins and brooches with mock gems priced 39c to 98c, hat pins 8c to 25c, gold baby pins 50c, neck chains with locket 39c, pearl bead necklaces 48c, cuff links 20c to 75c, belt buckles 75c to 2.25, assorted toilet articles, curling irons 50c, shoe horns 50c and 75c, erasers 0c, and other small items priced similarly.
Flannelette night gowns striped with feather stitched braid priced 50e to 69e. Short flannelette skirts in white and colors with silk stitching 0e to 1.50. White pink and blue flannelette yokes 1 to 2.25. Pretty kimonas striped flannelette with blue or pink binding 50c. Dressing sacks of eider down 75c to 2.50. Knit skirts plain colors and stripes 50c to 2.00.
The millinery store now operates under experienced personnel with strong merchandising expertise. The focus remains on quality craftsmanship and a refined selection in headwear, highlighted by a commitment to style and customer service.
Milliners discard unsold trims and hats at season end then restyle for next year. Prices on hats are so low there will be nothing left to warm over for next winter.
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