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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1900
Page
4
Furnished by the weather bureau generally fair tonight and Friday. Snow flurries expected in the eastern portion this afternoon. Colder in the southeast portion tonight.
Announcement states T. W. Bast is a candidate for Pettis county collector, pending action of the Democratic convention or primary. He seeks party support and faces the nominating process.
Robly D Thatcher files as a candidate for county treasurer pending Pettis County Democratic Party action. The text mentions love letters and promises in a court-like context, with reference to Chillicothe as a trial site and discussions joining correspondence to influence outcomes.
In police court today Wm. Jand paid $10 and costs. Frank paid $5 and costs for drunkenness. Jos. Thornberry, drunk, was fined $5 and costs with a stay to leave town for six months.
J S Alexander of St Louis and Ida Frances Stilwell of Sedalia wed in Hughesville. Frank N Martin and Maggie Fowler of Hughesville also marry. Chas Martin of Hughesville and Cora Dvi of Smithton wed. Rev Kloss of St Louis to lecture at Second National church on Friday January 19 about a bicycle journey from Frankfort to Berlin Paris via the Black Forest.
A reflection on Edwin Markham's poem The Man With the Hoe and its San Francisco Examiner publication. The verses critique labor oppression and the moral failure of rulers, asking how future generations will judge those who shaped the man and allowed vast social inequality.
A chaotic tale mixes a fortune linked to sponge cake and a North Berwick affair with a Mexico City tram incident. A crowded trolley in New Jersey becomes a stage for a crowd’s hymn singing as a compositor on Wall Street joins in, linking local oddities, pastry, and misfortune.
Edict to Sedalia voters urges support for a 1 mill tax allocation to back Andrew Carnegie's $50,000 library donation. The measure, at a special election on Tuesday February 6 1900, would not raise overall taxes, merely redirect existing funds. Also notes a lost Knight Templar watch charm and a job ad for a white girl cook at 712 West Third Street.
Dick Ashbrook who appeared in a Main street incident was found in the room of the woman he brutalized and fined fifty dollars plus costs. He must leave town for a year, and it is said the Williams woman paid his room rent board and laundry bills while he repeatedly beat her.
The Sedalia Electric Light and Railway Co. announces staff changes with veteran Wm. Taylor resigning to pursue contracting work. Henry Schaffer takes Taylor’s route, Bryson Brown shifts to Schaffer’s Forest Park line, and John Schnackenberg takes Brown’s Forest Park run. A jury sentenced Perry Edwards to six months for wife beating.
Bargain sale offers 200 bright clean newspapers former price two dollars now nineteen cents at the Sentinel office.
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