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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1902
Page
8
A fragment mentions Sedalia schools and other cities in a brief item. No clear events or dates are provided, but the note references multiple districts and a regional context.
State Superintendent of Public Schools reports a list of forty cities in the state that each employ more than sixteen teachers. The document highlights the concentration of teaching staff across these communities.
Rip Van Winkle again headlines Wood's amusements as the old theatre favorite, with a repeat showing tonight. Friday promises the Who What When minstrels breaking comedy drama monotony, boasting a large first part of fifty performers including celebrities. A former street urchin now a Klondike mine owner recounts rising from bootblack to wealth, planning a return to Alaska next week after locating gold claims and amassing fortune.
The Who What When minstrels with Weaver Donna and leading comedians George Weaver Hi Tom Ward Gear Buckley Nat Blossom perform this season at the Grand. They headline this week as seats sell out nightly and the Boston Herald praises the show for its popularity and value.
Advertises a yearly contract to introduce Monarch Poultry Mixture offering $20 weekly plus expenses. Applicants must send stamped address information to Monarch Mfg. Co. box 1104 Springfield, Illinois.
M. A. Teets of Leavenworth returned to Kansas City yesterday after a stay during which he was selling newspapers. The brief visit marked a notable turn in his fortunes.
Stall No 5 in the market house opens with Joseph Kehl, a prominent local entrepreneur, offering strictly cash sales of high quality meats at the lowest prices. He invites patrons to judge by results and notes phone number 68 for contact.
Local advertisement notes Cohen's Hot Stuff Koal Ko offering products under the banner Hot Stuff with two phone lines 1000 and 263 indicating contact details for orders or inquiries.
Money loans from $1000 and up on Pettis county realty with best terms. Farm loans available at 5 percent interest with partial payment privileges. J. H. Bothwell, attorney and counselor, Sedalia National Bank Building. Old papers for sale at this office.
Landlord G H Berry closes his Otterville hotel and will relocate to St Louis leaving Otterville without a hotel. The move ends lodging options in the town and may affect travelers and residents seeking accommodation.
Dr Lightner Witmer of the University of Pennsylvania explains that many so called lies by children arise from imagination rather than deceit. He differentiates imagination from fancy as after images in the mind and notes a bright child’s exaggeration between ages three to adulthood.
A 2 am disturbance at a Charles street residence ends with a shivering messenger delivering a blank telegram envelope. The recipient reads a midnight note from a famous New York hotel saying Just had a delightful supper De wish you were with us Jim and Jessie, prompting reactions of fear concern and distress.
A three year old club hosts a canary bird exhibition at Teutonia hall on 158rd avenue. Birds imported from Holland, judges from Paterson New Jersey, and a social gathering with Belgian yellow males Scotch females German rollers and more. James Karney narrates that the event is purely social with no money involved.
The Observant Boarder quips that Lord Roberts hands over control to Gen. Kitchener who will roast the Boers to the queen's taste in a Dutch oven, as the Cross Eyed Boarder asks the joke back.
A compact remark frames the Reader’s question about why voting sites are termed polls. The Observant questions the term while the Cross Eyed Boarder adds a witty aside about scratching at the ballot site, as noted by the Pittsburg Chronicle.
Harrison Indiana residents relish a humorous tale of Silas Hammond, the village weather prophet in Rockdale. At a New Year celebration in the village store he orders a sprawling midnight snack building a comical feast of baked beans onions oysters and fruit and ends by a gallon of water before the store trucks haul him home.
Chairman James M. Seibert of the Democratic state committee calls the state central committee to meet in St. Louis on the 18th to choose time and place for the state convention next summer for nominating candidates to the supreme court, railroad commissioners, and state superintendent of public schools.
The advertisement declares Red Cross Ball Blue the best in the world and promotes large two ounce packages priced at five cents.
The local Republican organ lists C. C. Kelly for prosecuting attorney Mint Johns for circuit clerk Nat Lower for county clerk Sam Bowser and Jim Robb for sheriff John Franklin for
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