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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1902
Page
5
Personal note offers home item at 1.00 with no carryover to spring and all winter goods at low prices. Brief local items report Adolph Becker replacing Walter Lucking as Western Union messenger, Joseph Hempel hosting, Botz’s father once Californiabased German publisher, sleigh ride outing, private loan ad by C C Lawson, Katie Building rooms 107-9, Bell Telephone 467, F L Hayes departing for Kansas City on business.
Graph company yesterday. Art Mc Donald has resigned and is succeeded by Bert Pearson. M. B. Coleman sells dry salt bacon at 10c a pound. J. W. Kennedy travels to St. Louis tonight on business. Prunes sold by M. B. Coleman at 5c a pound. Mrs. Dr. Lang travels home after nephew Frank Kennedy’s death. Heating stoves advertised for sale at bargain prices at 106 West Main Street. E. Brighton, Prop. U. S. Eddins visited Kansas City today. Sol Sandridge of Houstonia in the city. J. P. Adams of Kansas City visiting relatives. J. S. Agee on business to Tipton. R. W. Griffith on a Syracuse trip. W. A. Wiley to Franklin Junction. Mrs. Jennie Whistler ill at home on South Lamine Street. J. C. Brown insurance agent en route to Tipton. J. C. Longan of the Bank of Houstonia in town. Justice Wheeler of Lamonte in town. Mrs. M. Jackson of Lamonte shopping here.
A fragment from Meredith Nicholson notes a woman born inland who, late in life, reaches a landmark on shore where great seas shook the land, hinting at a journey from misery to wary joy.
Clyde Patterson returns from Chicago with top prizes for his single-combed brown Leghorns including a best male head awarded to Mark Hanna among 160 entrants. Patterson also earns pullet second, pen third, and cockerel fourth as 194 birds competed in the class.
H. W. Meuschke writes Sedalia readers that the Republican City Central Committee favors removing partisan politics from the city campaign while planning to canvass voters. He notes petitions will express voter will within a week or ten days and mentions selection of a choir soloist and church anecdotes.
House pensions committee reports favor a bill granting $25 monthly to Hiram Crok the last surviving veteran of the war of 1812 aged 102 from Oneida County New York.
The New York World profiles B. H. Kroger of Cincinnati, noting his rise from a 13 year old errand boy to a millionaire owner of forty retail groceries and a wholesale importing house. It recalls early losses, bold risk, and rapid decisions that built his business empire.
Harry M. Prouse, a discharged Oswego, New York soldier, tried to smuggle himself east by concealing in a goods box. He arranged with an expressman to ship the box today under cover of darkness, but the plan was thwarted.
A tense case unfolds as an expressman frees a box after mistaking a human body inside for a corpse and is discharged. Ed Maupin, already with a police record, assaults Annie Robinson with a knife after confronting Lon Porter’s attention to her, receiving four months in jail. The Robinson girl sustains a black eye.
The Epworth League state board met at Fifth Street M E church to finalize arrangements for the Perth Springs convention on July 23 to 25. A social evening followed with crokinole and checkers, refreshments, and helpers Misses Linnie Kemp Thula Rodes and Ella Moore.
A residence two miles east of Houstonia belonging to Clark Stevens was destroyed by an early morning fire. The fire was caused by a defective flue and some furniture was saved.
Joseph Dickman secures a contract to furnish sixty quarter oak lockers for the Boonville Knights Templar uniforms. James Fisher and Isaac Hardin, colored men, fined $1 and costs by Judge Rogers for a disturbance at Main and Kentucky streets. Fisher jailed. The Missouri Girl company from Boonville registered at the mills and to perform at Wood's tonight. Annie and Ernest Edwards arraigned before Judge Kinsey for disturbing Annie Nolan's peace. each fined $1 and costs. Ritchie tent of Maccabees initiated B. E. Buren and Will Almquist. The Poindexter infant ill with pneumonia. an older daughter died Tuesday of pneumonia and was buried today.
The Louisville Times notes a hard hit at a church meeting as the contralto soloist position remained unfilled after several singers performed.
Senator Hanna has compiled twelve thousand editorial clippings from U S and English newspapers on the death of William McKinley. The clippings are stored in four large volumes as a tribute to the late president’s esteem across the English speaking world.
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