June Collections and Odd Snippets From Town Ledger
County collector E B McClure reports month end totals for June 1904. The excerpt blends a tax tally with a water ad promising health benefits and a pharmacy notice. It also includes a humorous anecdote about a Democratic club bystander admiring an expensive evening suit and a New York Telegraph quote.
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E. B. McClure
House Committee
Democratic Club
Tom Dunn
Dunn
Marlborough House
Tom
New York Telegraph
Valley league umpire censured for street fight
Missouri Valley umpire Owens faced a $25 fine and an oath to reform after a Pittsburg street altercation. President Shively, Kansas City, condemned his conduct and warned he could rise in baseball with changes.
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Owens
Missouri Valley League
Pittsburg
Kansas City
Shively
Valley League
Kansas City Times
Dr Mary Walker Arrives to Advocate Suffrage Plank
Dr Mary Walker of Washington attends the Democratic convention in St Louis wearing creased broncloth trousers a Prince Albert coat and a lavender tie. She Palmers for a suffrage plank arguing women deserve political consideration and encounters a delegate who questions women in politics.
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New York
Famous War Correspondent Sir William Russell
Sir William Howard Russell is eighty four, a renowned war correspondent famed for Crimea letters and the Lucknow siege. He covered campaigns in Italy 1859, the American Civil War, Denmark, and Franco Prussian wars, and Africa, later becoming a friend and honorary private secretary to King Edward on the eastern tour of 1875 76.
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William Howard Russell
Russell
Crimea
Lucknow
Africa
King Edward
Rain postpones Leavenworth Sedalia game doubleheader eyed
The Leavenworth Sedalia contest was halted by rain yesterday. A double header may be played this afternoon or the postponed game could be moved to Thursday’s off day.
Pittsburg shuts out Pittsburg in home defeat
Pittsburg fell 7 to 0 against visiting Topeka as Torrie and Baerwald struggled to contain Milton and Seigle. The game featured a lopsided offense with Pittsburg misfiring on offense and the visitors piling up runs in multiple innings.
Fort Scott Beats Topeka Twice: Signs Core Stirs Fort Scott
Fort Scott has won two straight against Topeka and grows confident as Topeka signs player Core. Rumors of unrest at Joplin and Fillman’s unpopularity stir talk of a Miner collapse amid a season with seven Fort Scott wins, two of them against Topeka.
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Fort Scott
Topeka
Core
Joplin
Fillman
Pleasant Acknowledgement Sentiment From Sedalia Stenographers
Sedalia Missouri July 6 1904 The Sentinel publishes a grateful note from Lona Shackelford and Eulalia Wise thanking the Munhall Pugh revival reporters for carnasions and service as stenographers in reporting the meetings.
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Sedalia
the Sentinel Newspaper Co
The Scarcity of Washerwomen
A local ad promotes Monarch Laundry offering modern facilities for family washing. Charles van Antwerp props up service with low prices, wagon delivery to all areas, and both phones available for contact.
Frank Bell Dead Aged 45 In West Cooper Street Home
Frank Bell a Black man about 45 died this morning at his West Cooper street home from a hemorrhage. The Arlington Pharmacy delivery system is noted as superior in the city with phones numbered 14.
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Frank Bell
West Cooper Street
Arlington Pharmacy
Decker Buys Nickson Brothers Grocery at 207 West Main
W L Decker of Georgetown has purchased the Nickson Brothers grocery stock at 207 West Main street. The deal closed Tuesday and the new proprietor now runs the business under the name Decker Grocery Company.
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Nickson Brothers
West Main Street
The
Decker Grocery Company
Chaffee nomination anecdote and varied brief items
A Washington Post anecdote recalls Gen Chaffee's reception in a Manila hospital during a typhoid outbreak. The era reports wireless liners with large message throughput. Christie’s London auction offered early furniture pieces with modest prices. Notes on poisons rank prussic acid versus aconite. A Modena bucket sparked a medieval war. Jamaican chalk riddance tackles ant infestations in homes.
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Gen. Chaffee
Christie’s Auction Rooms
London
Hermes
A. Gilbert
R. A
Galeazzo Mondella
Aderno
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Gloria
Ps Duffle
Roan
Charles Hoffman & Bro. Sell
S. Flour
Six Mile
Laomnte
Smithton
Green Ridge
Georgetown
Heyes
Ais Te
Wens
Pittsburg Rampage
Leavenworth
Iola
Skinner
Hutter
Hurlburt
Lawrence
Milton
E. E. Codding
St. Louis
Bob (Lawson) Ruhlback
Laws
Ruhlback
Codding
Detroit
Robert
W. L Pet
Springfield
Iola Ieee Eka Waka
Mary Walker
Politics
Yester
Mary
Dr. Walker
Southern Hotel
J. E. Rector
Tas
J. M. Talkington
Corning, Ark
I. L. Pratt
M. D
Iowa
Constan
Pepiy
Olff-Wilson Deug CO
P.H. Hook
Cisan Ave
Lola
Torrie
Torrie and Baerwald
Milton and Seigle
Opeka
Carter and Sisler
bin and
Armstrong
Herling
Craig Ard Horton
Lowell and
Bayless
Baseball Notes
U. S. Torpedo Boat Decatur
Decatur
United States Navy
Orient
United States Naval Academy At
Annapolis
the Sentinel
Sedalia, Mo
Lona Shackelford
Eulalia Wise
Monarch Laundry
Chas. van Antwerp
Prop
Nickson
W. L. Decker
Georgeown
C. H. Heynen
Ohio St
Mo. P
Washington Post
Atlantic
Kronprinz Wilhelm
Italy
Brazil
Modena
Bologna
Europe
Sardinia
Tropics
Western States
Ohio Street
Union Pacific
Rockies
Great Salt Lake
Yellowstone
H. G. Kaill, A. G. PL
Fla
Walnut Street
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