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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1901
Page
2
Telegram from El Paso Texas reports the death of Mrs. John S Marmaduke at 27 after months of declining health. She was born near Fairville daughter of William Grayson of Sweet Springs and married June 1899 at Sweet Springs.
The notice highlights Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as a safe pleasant medicine ideal for coughs colds croup and whooping cough. It emphasizes no opium or injurious drugs and suitability for children and adults with local sellers listed Mertz Hale Kautzman and Otis W Smith.
Wm Hoffman is named postmaster at Longwood in Petts county and J P Hedges is appointed postmaster at Hallsville in Boone county on a recent Wednesday.
Opinion bits and product pitches blur with local concerns in Leavenworth. Mrs Florence Frasier of Ledgewood ND praises Krause's Headache Capsules while Mayo pharmacy vendors Otts drug store Otis W Smith are named. A hazing report at a Kansas college is noted. General health tips and jokes follow with DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve and Foley honey and tar promoted.
Mayor Scombe of St. Joseph signed his name 1040 times on the $280000 bond issue becoming effective Feb 1. A drug store promotion offers a free sample of Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets for stomach biliousness and headache.
A country editor condemns Missouri school arithmetic as a Chinese puzzle and derides the backhand penmanship policy, calling for its removal and signaling a broader critique of current education standards.
Editorials condemn Leavenworth for tying Kansas to Colorado on altitude plans. Writers warn of higher elevations next summer and the political misstep of such framing.
Mrs Frances L Sales of Missouri Valley Iowa credits Foley s Kidney Cure with curing years of kidney trouble after trying five doctors. A traveling evangelist posted a Prepare to meet your God sign on a Henry county farmer s gate and found the farmer altered it to a business warning about a cold. Krause s Cold Cure is said to break a cold in twenty four hours, sold by Ott s drug store and Otis W Smith.
Mint Johns of Sedalia won senior Hoo-Hoo at the annual lumber dealers convention in Kansas City this week. Also promotes Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for digestive relief with 25 cent price and free samples at Mertz & Hale's and Otis W. Smith's drug stores in DeWitt, Iowa.
A clipped reminiscence recalls Mrs. Nation’s early anti slavery work at St. Joseph Missouri where pro slavery groups abducted her first husband and burned the office. She saved some type and issued a new edition herself. An ad fragment promotes Rocky Mountain Tea and chauffeured carriages with rates and insurance notices.
Editor Newt Bryson of the Louisiana Press laments an unusually harsh Missouri winter that may push March out and crowd Hanna McKinley’s inauguration ball into April. The piece also warns against counterfeit DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve and urges buying only DeWitt’s Salve from Arlington Pharmacy.
An advertisement by Frank Vollrath offers loans at five percent interest with no commission. Room 217 Eigenfritz Block is listed as the contact location.
Bill Beal of East Sedalia reported an unusual event or condition described as a sweet scented mess, prompting attention from local authorities or residents. The readable fragment suggests a localized incident with probable odor or material concern. Further details are not available in the fragment.
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