Kisser Beetle Captured in Sedalia Reported as Notorious Insect
Col Ritter brought a beetle to the office suspected as the kissing bug found in his East Fifth street home. A second specimen was captured alive at Servant Walker's and is on display. The insect, reddish brown about an inch long with strong jaws, is blamed for reports and fatalities mainly in the East as it spreads westward. screens on doors and windows are advised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col Ritter
East Fifth Street
Pearance
New Sales School Scheme Promises Easy Tricks for Nabbed Orders
A Chicago musical firm head entertains a salesman pitch for a school teaching commercial tricks to novice salesmen. The firm’s rep notes goods sell themselves and uses friendly, polished staff to close sales, while the scene ends with a new piano bought for 400 dollars on notes. A train scene and ticket inquiry from the Washington Star closes the fragment.
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Chicago
Burglar Pleads For Mercy In Nervous Exchange
A fragment records a burglar speaking in a nervous tone asking pardon as he pleads for leaving the scene and offering to return another time. The quote ends with a note attributed to Sondays and Nisse.
Why Do the Heathen Rage In This Quiet Parlor
Mr Blykins and his wife debate the familiar question as they discuss heathen anger and colonial subjects. She notes their imagined peaceful annexation while he rails against ongoing efforts to clothe the heathen and improve their lot. The exchange blends satire and domestic banter about empire and benevolence.
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Mr. Blykins
Aguinaldo
A Portly Lady and Her Bundles At The Rail
A brief observation notes a portly lady with many bundles arriving at the rail station. The writer remarks on a common pattern that larger women tend to carry larger and more numerous bundles as part of everyday travel.
A Vanished Dream in a Domestic Row
In a domestic scene Mrs Bramible presses Mr Bramble about past dreams of living together in a cottage away from the crowds. He counters that marriage changed the plan since she would be the cook.
Suffering Across Acts and Global Figures in Brief
A collage of brief notes: critique on dramatic suffering, KE Brice to study U.S. penal institutions, Watts to sculpt a statue of Lord Tennyson, Jokai’s simple studio routine, Emile Zola's charity, Dr Horace Burr’s linguistic works and church service, a Parisian legacy to a seven-son seven-daughter shoemaker, Representative White described as a prominent Black leader from North Carolina, a Howard graduate lawyer, and a London Jenner anecdote about a carpenter seeking a gold guineas piece.
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KE. Ruggles Brice
England
Watts
R. A
Lord Tennyson
Jokai
Emile Zola
Paris
Horace Burr
Wilmington
Del
Episcopal Church
Delaware
Vendenbruck
North Carolina
Howard University
Washington
Jenner
London
Miss Cayleys Adventures to Be Published as a Novel
Grant Allen’s Miss Cayleys Adventures, a serial in an English magazine, will be issued in book form. The Queen’s Garland presents select Elizabethan poetry in a handsome bound volume, chosen to meet pocket edition standards.
Five Tumors Removed From Patient At City Hospital
J C Curts, 45, of the north side, had five large tumors removed from his hip this morning at the city hospital. Dr W J Ferguson operated. his father Dr Cowan and Dr Shirk assisted.
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J C Curts
North Side
City Hospital
W J Ferguson
Cowan
Shirk
Vicious Dog Shot by City Dog Catcher
A dog owned by Jack Barnes was shot this morning by J P Beatty the dog catcher. The animal was described as vicious and allegedly bit two men earlier today.
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Jack Barnes
J P Beatty
Ice Cream Soda 5c at Fleischmann's Pharmacy
A brief item notes ice cream soda priced at five cents at Fleischmann's Pharmacy with a local promotional line promising unique options and value.
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Fleischmann’s Pharmacy
Re vir wis Absolutely Pure Cow in Trice
Bottling and sale limited to specific source by labeled brand. Text presents fragmented product claims and exclusivity note without clear event or location details.
Prominent Scholars and Investigations Highlight Era
Notes recount Cold Storage Co. donor L. W. Longstaff and Royal Geographical Society member aiding a British Antarctic expedition. Sir William Turner, president designate for Bradford meeting, teaches anatomy at the University of Edinburgh. Major Marchand earns Audfred prize in Paris for devotion to science. Dr. Waetzhold links piano and violin abuse to female neurotic disorders. Dr. Buchner, late author of Force and Matter, discussed for his materialist philosophy and Tubingen role. Heinrich Kiepert noted as foremost antiquity geographer with an atlas of Asia Minor and a renowned world atlas.
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L. W. Longstaff
Royal Geos Graphical Society
William Turner
British Association For
Bradford
University of Edinburg
Marchand
Paris
Audiffred
French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences
Waetzhold
Buchner
University of
Tubingen
Heinrich Kiepert
University of Berlin
Asia Minor
Ileilas
Church affairs and religious movements in 19th century notes
The piece surveys gender in missions, multilingual Lutheran services, an Episcopal congress in St Paul in October 1869, and a Philadelphia alliance promoting citizenship. It mentions a Japanese Christian offering his door for reading, Bishop Dwangee’s fund raising in Africa, Howard Divinity School’s mixed faculty, and Presbyterian reunification efforts after the Civil War.
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Lutheran Church In
Dwangee
Howard Divinity School
Presbyterian Church North
Presbyterian Church South
Inventions Feature Hair Clippers Attachment and Water Wheel Ride
A new attachment for hair clippers catches clipped hairs with a rear mounted pan. A floating merry go round designed to operate on water uses a circular hull, central shaft, anchor, and paddle wheel driven by a motor. A Swiss inventor patents a light emitting percussion cartridge to deter dogs and highwaymen.
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Percales
Amoskeag
Soap
Tel
Wiliam Kahrs
West
Luce
Kahrs & Bloess
Melanolestes
Kisser
Ritter
Mr. Melanolestes Phipes
Sedalia
Jungleville
Washington Star
Rose
Somebooy
Revir
Ecalia Lee
Cold Storage CO
Church Affairs
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