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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1900
Page
5
A long established Sedalia business offering a complete job printing office with presses type and chases. The proprietor sells at a bargain to retire. Reason for selling given as owner’s retirement. Local opportunity for steady income in a proven enterprise.
A. F. Rogers advertises a shoe shop on the south side of the Sedalia courthouse with lower prices on Gent's half soles 50c Gent's sewed soles and heels 1.00 Ladies half soles 45c patches 5c and up and children's sales 30c and up. He claims 15 years in Sedalia shoe business and guarantees every job or money back.
Advertises Dr. D L La Verne Grip Tab for La Grippe and colds. Promises fast relief without quinine head effects. Priced at 25 cents. Sold by Fleischmann's Pharmacy.
The Rock Island Playing Cards are offered at 15 cents per pack by mail. Send a money order or draft for 50 cents to secure four packs, prepaid by express. Address John Sebastian G P A CR and P Chicago for orders.
A bay gelding about 14 hands tall and eight years old with a white face mark and white scar on the right knee is missing. Front feet shod recently and a liberal reward is offered for information leading to recovery.
The piece argues for systematic road upgrades as horseless vehicles spread. It credits wheelmen for progress, notes U S cities lag cobble paving, and highlights Ex-Governor Heard's dairy and farming road savings case.
A young auditing official on a railroad staff disputed a money matter with a rival department. He later joined the other road, and his first on file letter was his own refuting his prior stance. He ended by calling the author of that letter an unmitigated donkey. Also included is a whimsical poem about a Brownie who swims each morning and forces the sun to rise.
A Washington correspondent recalls Admiral Dewey sparing a powder-boy aboard the Raleigh before Manila. The boy swam after his coat to recover his mother's picture, was jailed for disobedience, and Dewey wept then freed him saying boys who love their mothers must not be kept in irons.
A children’s poem from St. Nicholas about Wee Tom dancing to a fiddle. It describes prancing to the rhythm with alternating steps and a lively dance led by the brother playing the violin.
A cracked, stylistic reflection on masculinity and femininity, manners, and social behavior. The piece toys with names and roles, noting how pride and temptation shape men and women and how perception shifts with circumstance.
A miscellany of quirky couplets and snippets recounts love missteps and daily farce. A blind muse and clever turns of phrase mingle with domestic pratfalls. longing, vanity, and social quirks appear in vivid, compact lines.
Quoted reflections ponder social manners, luck, appearance, and virtue. Wry maxims question judgment, generosity, fear, and self knowledge while contrasting vanity with inner worth. Notable lines discuss fortune telling, marriage, beauty, and the soul’s resilience.
Chronicle of the 1892 Mont Blanc catastrophe. A formed lake under the Tete Rousse glacier released a torrent that swept Biennassay and Bionnay, crushed the St Gervais baths, damaged Le Fayet, and left over 150 dead amid mud and rock.
While vacationing in the east, Rev Ward Beecher Pickard of Epworth Memorial church writes of an incident in Boston. He buys a paper from a newsboy and asks about Cleveland and Weveland. The boy quips about the Lake Erie city and a “dandy baseball club” as the preacher thanks him and leaves.
An insurance company paid a claimant in Yarmouth England after a small ash from a cigarette dropped onto his turned up trousers and burned a hole. The payment covered a new pair under a general fire policy.
The Audubon Society of Massachusetts warns five million birds are killed yearly for plumage used in ladies hats, sparking concern over the impact on nature and human life. A separate note describes Henessey Oklahoma fending off a waterspout with cannons firing salt to disrupt the storm.
Kansas Missouri Colorado and Oklahoma cake walkers met for the interstate championship in Wichita Kansas. Judges included Wichita Chief Campbell Guthrie L G Tibleck and W R Robinson. Walter Gray of Guthrie Oklahoma Territory won the 100 pound cake and gold pocket star. Delegations from Kansas City Guthrie St Louis and other points attended. The event revived a southern entertainment with colorful costumes and high enthusiasm.
Information from Missouri Pacific headquarters says Chas Jones, captured this morning, confessed to the Independence and Pittsfield robberies.
A fragmentary note references Vis Ricet and Cha Gt in a brief case context. The readable text suggests a legal or signa related item, with no clear outcome or dates available in the fragment.
All members of Company D Second Regiment N G M are ordered to report at Armory Friday evening February 2 at 730 for drill and for distribution of uniforms by order Captain Sam W James Second Regiment N G M commanding company D.
A large consignment of Hermitage and McBrayer whiskeys dated 1892 has arrived from the bonded warehouse. G N Boutell, 309 Ohio St.
Jefferson City Mo Feb 1 Dr W M Prottsman a venerable Methodist preacher who had announced as a Democratic candidate for State Senator from this district today withdrew from the contest leaving the field to others as the party standings shift in the Missouri capital.
Candy Palace markets genuine Yankee Spruce Gum sourced from Maine forests.
Twenty acre farm on North Engineer Street with a four room house a good barn and water all kinds of fruit. A snap. Call and see owner J C Welsh or address Mrs Maggie Clark city.
Found item described as a silver chain and beads with a cross located opposite 210 East Third. Inquire at this office. Also lender inquiry for city property loans addressed to Bailey & Smith, 108 West Third.
Three boxes or nine cakes of Buttermilk Soap for 25 cents displayed at Servant Harker Drugs. WANTED One south furnished room with bath for a single gentleman. Address F. 66 this office.
Help wanted in a small family for light housekeeping. Apply at 114 West Third Street between 7 and 8.
Health advocates promote Grain-O as a coffee substitute for children. The advertised drink is made from pure grains, claims to taste like coffee, and costs 15c to 25c per package with grocers selling it nationwide.
Henry Morehouse Taber, president and treasurer of the First Presbyterian church trustees, filed for probate. In his will he denounces all religion as sham and superstition and requests that no services be held.
The snippet lists arrival and departure times for trains in Missouri Kansas and Texas, including No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 1 and No. 64 way freight No. 53 No. 49 and No. 171 with specific morning and evening times and 3:50 am to 3:55 am as the late slot.
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