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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1900
Page
3
An advertisement promotes the Volcano Stove as a cost effective solution for winter heating. It claims three tons of coal cost about $25 and will keep a home comfortably heated all season, while bottom draft stoves require six to eight tons and deliver poor heat and smoke.
Two weeks feature a select stock of silver plated goods carving sets Marion Harland tea and coffee pots at unfailingly low figures for Seda lia. Lisk guarantee anti rust. Tin and copperware guns ammunition skates and more offered at low prices.
EWART and MARSHALL advertise a new wood yard at 118 W Second Street Se daldia on East Third Street near the Missouri Pacific freight house. They offer good split body green wood for 3.75 a cord, mixed green and dry 3.85, dry or half seasoned 4.00 a cord, with cash due on order or delivery and phone contact 347.
In a Delverton Hall mini drama Evangeline Garth hopes Royden will wed Lilac Marvel the nurse from California while Lady Garth fears a me sappily rich match. A secret telegram and a concealed letter threaten to reveal loyalties and risk an undesired union between title and wealth.
Maryville Missouri December 31 Mrs Henry Willis wife of a local stockman and politician shot and wounded Lawrence Growney a wealthy farmer after a dispute over a rumor spread by a suitor of Mrs Willis daughter Willis confronted Growney in Clyde and fired twice on the street then followed him into a store and fired six more shots five hit him despite his alleged innocence the incident reflects Irish Catholic tensions in Clyde and Conception and the calm behavior of Mrs Willis after arrest while the narrative also includes a fiction aside about Aunt Gwen Evangeline and Roy.
An ad states Chamberlains Pain Balm, applied with damp flannel, provides prompt relief for lame back, pains in the side or chest, and rheumatism. It promises relief after one application and lists Mertz & Hale, J. L. Kautzman, and Otis W. Smith as sellers.
The 1900 death list includes Charles Dudley Warner John Clark Ridpath and other editors and magnates such as Collis Huntington Marcus Daly Henry Villard and John Sherman. The piece notes political figures like Cushman K. Davis and a reference to DeWitt's Little Early Risers as liver cleansing pills.
Six year old Roy Gillette unintentionally fired a .22 caliber rifle at his four year old sister in Nevada Missouri. The pellet entered above her right temple fracturing the skull and doctors given no clear prognosis.
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