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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1903
Page
4
Local retailer promotes value priced menswear with suits at 10 and 12.50 dollars and boys suits and overcoats starting at 2 dollars. Claiming better values than competitors, the ad invites customers to inspect the range of overcoats and suits.
A catalog style plea offers Fancy Suspenders Neckwear Vests Smoking Jackets Silk Handkerchiefs Mufflers and more. The ad promises quality with a $3.00 Thoroughbred Hats guarantee and asserts no special sales, just value and price. A friendly invitation to browse and buy or not.
The First Baptist Church choir will present a special Christmas musical program at the church on the corner of Sixth and Lamine streets. A large number of the citys sweetest singers will participate Sunday morning December 28.
Card of thanks from Mrs Charles White and Mr William White to the Elks friends and neighbors who aided them during illness and death of their husband and son.
Mor cig Real Estate of Lamonte completed a sale of a good residence to O P Kilgore of Mills County Iowa for an undisclosed price. The transaction was finalized this week through the local real estate office.
Pupils under Miss Hattie Gold presented a Friday evening entertainment at the First Congregational church attended by school patrons and friends. A highlight was the Tom Thumb wedding featuring Master Joel Townsley Rogers and little Miss Helen Courtney among acts by various school classes and soloists.
Roy Mason pled guilty to a noon dispute at Fifth and Washington streets and paid one dollar plus costs. Harry Rankin had his case continued to Monday to allow him to see his father. Additional cases against Charles Phillips Jas Boldman Alice Williams and May Rattler were moved to Wednesday. Elder's High Class Millinery at Half Price.
Co. A. Ware, noted horseman, ships a car load of top harness horses from Jefferson City led by Joe Gratton. The shipment to New York is described as the finest batch ever sent from Central Missouri.
Clara Wood two years old daughter of Mr and Mrs H W Wood of Sixteenth and Ohio streets died Friday at 6 AM from heart trouble. Funeral was Saturday at 10 AM at Providence church eight miles northeast and burial followed in Providence cemetery.
The will of the late Jacob Habluetzel was admitted to probate Saturday. The deceased left all his property to his four children Minnie Bertha Frank and Fannie.
Eva Heath Stevens died at 22 at home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Heath 1120 East Tenth Street. She was wife of Henry B. Stevens, organist of Sedalia College of Music and a lifelong church member. Survived by parents husband a son and siblings. Funeral tribute notes loss to church Tore and society and hopeful reunion in the eternal land.
Magistrate Truxel fined three drunks five dollars each after arraignment in police court Saturday morning. A stray medical ad fragment notes Peruna benefits with a testimonial from Barbara Alberty of Appleton Wisconsin describing relief from backache and severe side pains after using the product.
A promotional notice features testimonials from Mrs Eva Barthoa and Mrs Kate Mann praising Peruna for relief from chronic catarrh and pelvic discharge symptoms. They claim renewed energy, pain relief, and improved health allowing daily work and activity. The quotes emphasize lasting improvement after two weeks to one year of use.
The Sedalia Sunday Sentinel prints children’s Christmas wishes, listing dozens of specific requests and addresses. Young writers ask for toys, dolls, trains, bicycles, tools, dress, and other gifts, signing as Ern est McConnell, Margaret Doolittle, Bryan Poindexter, Frances Hutchison, Lillie Kah n, Cecil Summers, Vesta McClain, and others from Sedalia Missouri.
A collection of kids and families making Santa requests for Christmas gifts. LOU EVA LONGAN asks for toys and presents for family and friends at 504 West Broadway, while MORTON TUTTLE lists sleds skates and a three wheel bicycle. A second child details dolls, a canary, and household items for all in the home.
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