13 Jan 1902
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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1902
Page
1
Congressman Champ Clark replies to ex Governor Stone defending general and county primaries as the best method to select a U S senator from Missouri. He cites past petitions, committee votes, and cost advantages, arguing primaries reduce boss influence and unify the party.
The Rev R J Cook editor of the Methodist Advocate in Chattanooga faces a campus showdown after a fiery editorial insulting the Daughters of the Confederacy triggers mass student condemnation. Grant University officials and Confederate veterans weigh in amid calls to withdraw support.
Advertises Sedalia based laundry on Lamine Street promoting longer life for shirts collars and cuffs through their laundering process. Mentions two phone numbers for contact.
In 1862 Thomas Blee of the First Iowa Cavalry camped in Clinton and later at Ashby Mound. Nearly forty years later Mr. Erie, living in Parker South Dakota, travels back to Clinton seeking a milder climate and contemplates buying land near the old campaigns site. He notes few Clinton landmarks but recognizes Ashby Mound and surrounding country.
The ad promotes Coldicure as the best cough medicine from W. E. Bard Drug Company.
A compact notice for Bard's Drug Store markets manicure and toilet items. The ad emphasizes a full range of cosmetics and personal care products in a local shop setting.
Cincinnati news recounts Marsh Market Jake once famed as a bold crook who misused thousands of dollars. Now at 61 he works as a subway watchman earning $1.50 daily, while Detective Chief Titus tracks his current whereabouts and past exploits.
A local laundries ad notes quality work and fair wages while inviting customers to call for any laundering job. The message emphasizes honest pricing tied to service quality and the need to earn a living.
Washington Hicks a 75 year old former slave of General J. O. Shelby married to Rachel Howell as recorded in county license records. The report notes Hicks’s age shifts and Kansas City residence, and adds a new entry for Ananias D. Weills Jr and Mary B. Roper with Weills a cigar maker.
Bard's drug store offers a full line of corn razors for quick relief of foot or toe corns. The shop emphasizes easy use and affordable prices for daily care.
Lexington chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy sent a written petition to Charles B. Scott, manager of the Lexington opera house, urging that Uncle Tom's Cabin never be played there again. They cite slave heritage, inaccurate depictions of slavery, and disrespect to Southern citizens as reasons, with signatures from four leading members and unanimous chapter support. An unrelated anecdote notes Train Caller Ben Brown being praised as his voice evokes a hymn-like tone.
Bard's drug store promotes Coldicure as a pleasant cough remedy. A laboring gang of about fifty men departed early this morning to Sweet Springs to help lay new rails on the Lexington branch.
George Morton the Missouri Kansas & Texas chief clerk met officials in St. Louis with a 1901 pass and pocketbook alleged to have been sold January 8 1902 by a local curbstone broker to Hamblin and North of Sherman Texas. The matter led to possible license revocation for the broker and a grand jury appearance by the buyers.
James Stacey an engineer at the Clarence area railroad tank pond killed his wife and daughter Alma and shot himself on June 5 1901. He held a $2000 life policy with Missouri State Life Safety Fund Insurance Co Monroe City. The policy bars payout if death results from his own action within three years. Courts in older companies have ruled this clause ineffective but it remains unsettled in this case.
Bloomington resident Frederick Geiler claims to be the West’s smallest locomotive engineer at 5 feet 4 inches tall working on the Chicago and Alton line. Frank M. Clough of Kansas City disputes the claim, standing 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighing 125 pounds, and is noted as among the smallest engineers in the United States.
E H Calef returns from the east and A Miner arrives for Katy as G W Inge tours the line. Nelson Smith resumes work on S W S W after a break while Russell Harding visits from Missouri Pacific. A mail bag torn by train No 10 causes damaged papers and letters. The Grand Secretary Treasurer F W Arnold reports 40 720 members, 3119 growth, $55 628 500 insured and $212 243 53 balance.
A clear image shows a neat line of manicure scissors displayed at Bard's drug store. The scene emphasizes tidy grooming tools arranged for sale and shopper interest in personal care items.
Padre, a chief medicine man among the Yuma Indians near Yuma, was offered as a sacrifice to the spirit to expiate the tribe's sins amid a smallpox epidemic. After fleeing to the mountains he returned, was captured by a delegation, and taken to Mexico where he was bound to a tree and tortured to death.
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