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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1899
Page
6
The advertisement touts fresh stock and deep reductions on coats, capes, jackets, gloves, linens, damasks, towels, and napkins. Reorganization slashes prices from $6 to $35 for suits and $1 to $2 items, urging shoppers to buy now before last minute crowds.
Christmas program notes from East Sedalia Baptist, Broadway Presbyterian, and Trinity Lutheran churches. Lists of recitations songs and special music with clergymen and choirs, Santa Claus, Christmas tree, and distribution of gifts. Includes names of participants and church officials.
Jack Frost brings blustery moods as blankets go on sale. White blankets range from 3.50 to 8.50 with plaid options, cotton and white wool varieties from 2.48 to 4.00. Special robe blankets in stripes and Jacquard styles priced 4.00 to 6.00, ideal gifts for Christmas.
A list of quick gift ideas includes pin cushions, Battenburg pieces, silver novelties, writing sets, book marks, enameled buckles, ribbon belts, beads, garters, jeweled combs, hot pins, chatelaines, and laundry bags for holiday giving.
A local advertisement offers wool shirts in blacks and blues at reduced prices from $2.25 to $3.98 and a consignment of women’s neckwear including plaited silks, ruffs, bows, and lace scarves with prices from 25c to $5. The copy promotes fit, gifts, and showings of beauty ready to wear.
Silk Petticoats in plain taffeta with wide Spanish flounce and four inch corded bottom ruffle are priced at 4.75. Styles with three corded ruffles on the wide flounce sell for 6.50. Other styles range 10, 12.50, 15, and 17.50.
Captain Thos Mason deputy constable received a wolf skin cap by mail from his son Hayden S Mason of the 6th U S Cavalry stationed at Fort Logan. The gift honors his many long winter rides through the country and is greatly appreciated.
Broadway Presbyterian prepares a Christmas program to be rendered soon with choir, soloists, and instrumental numbers. Local residents anticipate carols, readings, and a brief message amid holiday festivities at the church.
A mother grows pale and thin while worrying over a baby that does not thrive despite ample food. The passage notes nourishment and bone forming elements provided by medicine and supplements. druggists offer a product priced at 7 and $1.00 from Scott & Bowne, chemists in New York.
The article extols a beautifully illustrated volume described as an invaluable reference work, unequaled for the money, highlighting its craftsmanship and overall quality.
The Rev. J. S. Moody will lead morning services at the church with a sermon The Earth Prepared for Its King. Steam heat has been added and repairs completed. A quartet choir will perform a formal musical program. The Sunday school hosts a Christmas tree Saturday evening and Christmas Eve events with student performers.
The Fifth Street M E Church South schedules a Christmas program for Saturday night featuring an organ voluntary Joy to the World by the congregation prayer by Rev. F R Hill recitations by George Ware The Christ Child by six children and a chorus on the church program.
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