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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1899
Page
5
Local store advertises deep discounts on underwear and notations across departments. Highlights include lace curtains and imported soap at dramatic savings with men’s shirts, skirts, and colored duck fabrics reduced to a fraction of their regular prices.
Constable J A Robb returns to Sedalia with Nettie Wareham in custody on an infanticide charge. Wareham was arrested at Sheldon Illinois after requisition papers were issued in Sedalia and taken to Prosecutor Steele for a preliminary hearing planned before Judge Kinsey. Relatives distant from the case offered no help as the Wareham family’s fortunes are described, while the girl’s mother is said to be estimable though the Wareham side distanced themselves. A Sweet Springs notice follows about resort accommodations and medical facilities.
A parade of Irish anecdotes and wry reflections on life, liberty, and manners. Jokes about Pat and Biddy, a humorous verdict on a death by lighting a pipe, quips from soldiers and boatmen, and pithy maxims on time, love, and lawyers populate a column of light entertainment.
A list cites famous figures from history and literature as examples of genius bordering on insanity. Names include Joan of Arc, Walter Scott, Byron, Julius Caesar, Coleridge, Peter the Great, Martin Luther, Mozart, Descartes, Raphael, Poe, Rousseau, Cromwell, Richelieu, Swedenborg, and Muhammad with various alleged symptoms and visions.
A London man Louis M Forbes dies from tattooing related blood poisoning. A Sacramento baby drowns face down in a wash tub. A Coxsackie NY burial ground for animals is opened. Three robins disrupt a Bournemouth church organ. R Merrill of Fresno dies after sitting on dynamite and smoking. Abducted heir Harry Frei resurfaces in Knoxville claiming fortune. A Niagara woman’s body, buried for eleven years, is found petrified. S H Ruhlen killed by a pebble from a child’s sling in Marysville. Charles Fay of Oakland convicted for breaking his daughter's thigh over cake. Indiana man thaws nitroglycerin in a stove, but remains unaware of outcome. Eight-year-old Lizzie McKenny dies after jumping rope 300 times.
Comic dialogue snippets capture a parade of characters including a sympathetic passer-by a concerned mother and her daughter Agatha Alethea Agatha's sharp remark about tipping a waiter Alphonse Henri and a counsel exchange with Pat noting the striking detail of his fist A lighthearted period piece with witty exchanges and social poses.
A collection of aphorisms notes that without enthusiasm nothing great is achieved a bad actor is the ham with antique eggs a discontented person sails without a rudder and no one is so good that neighbors cannot see room for improvement.
Major Strong hails Colonel Fred Funs ton as the bravest man ever lived. Kipling reports fifty three publications since starting writing eighteen years ago. Kipling also notes the hardest work he did was in a newspaper office. Peter A B Widener owns an art gallery valued at 2 500 000 dollars.
A survey of royal manners shows Nicholas of Russia avoids handshakes except with fellow monarchs while Franz Josef of Austria shuns all but brother sovereigns. Victoria limits handshakes to relatives, the prince of Wales enjoys offering his hand, and Sweden’s king dislikes official exchanges until off the throne. Emperor William, one of two Exureneian monarchs, delights in a different royal greeting.
The text contrasts royal tastes from George III to Napoleon and Elizabeth I. George III favored boiled mutton and turnips while Napoleon enjoyed boiled mutton with onion sauce until he made himself ill. Elizabeth I had salt beef and ale for meals, Mary Queen of Scots preferred French luxury, James I enjoyed leekie cookies, and Charles II hosted lavish dinners with two dozen castles open and hundreds of guests, often with five hundred dishes served.
A collage of cartoon captions and quips from Punch and similar comic pages. Jokes span dramatic shop talk and playful exchanges about manners, mischief, and misunderstandings. Characters tease, argue, and linger on small mishaps with light wit.
Icebergs in the Atlantic can endure for two centuries. France allocates £5,000,000 annually to steamship subsidies. Over ten years German steam engine production more than doubled. Western Siberia speeds oil refining with sizable exports. The Siberian railway operates 300 refrigerator cars for butter transport to Russian cities.
A reader praises Grain-O made from pure grains claiming it converts coffee drinkers after a week. The letter notes Grain-O nourishes the system and is suitable for children, offering a delicious, healthful table beverage. Sold wholesale and retail at Candy Palace for 15¢ to 25¢.
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