Weather Outlook Quiet With Showers Northwest Tonight
Generally fair tonight and Friday with showers and thunderstorms limited to the northwest portion. Continued warm conditions across the region.
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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1899
Page
4
Generally fair tonight and Friday with showers and thunderstorms limited to the northwest portion. Continued warm conditions across the region.
Mrs Paul Ritter left yesterday for Colorado. Richard Morey arrives from Kansas City for a visit. Various locals travel or return from trips, including Miss Laura Stanley to Atchison and Misses Lillian Sharp and Lillian Dieter to Colorado. A new sprinkler, coal banks, a wholesale liquor house license, and school staff updates mark ongoing town activity with civic improvements and social visits.
Thomas Thurman deputy sheriff of Troy Missouri says the demand for DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve would be endless if everyone in the United States learned its virtue for piles rectal troubles and skin diseases. Servant-Harker Drug Co.
NF Ebersole owns the residence at 325 N Grand which is newly painted. Chas Connelly and family occupy that house. Ebersole plans a new home at 324 N Prospect, to be painted this week.
A promotional anecdote extols Allen's Foot-Ease for gloves to absorb perspiration and save garments. It claims to ease breaking in new shoes, keep feet cool and comfortable, and notes pure ingredient standards. Stores sell it for 25c with free samples from Allen S. Olmstead, Le Roy NY.
At the Candy Palace customers can buy watermelons either whole or sliced, with contact via telephone number 218 for orders.
A brief note extols the prescription department as unexcelled, highlighting Servant Harker Drug Co as the benchmark in pharmaceutical service and customer care.
A lighthearted line notes the happiest couple as a deaf husband and a blind wife using Rocky Mountain Tea together. They are described in humorous terms, emphasizing their unique pair bond and shared moment.
Three car loads of iron piping for the new steam heating plant arrived this morning over the M A&L railway line, signaling progress on the project. The delivery sets the stage for installation work to begin in the coming weeks.
W M Gallaher of Bryan Pa says after forty years of trying cough medicines One Minute Cough Cure is best of all It relieves instantly and cures throat and lung troubles quoted by Servant Harker Drug Co.
Robert Keeton was released after a disturbing the peace case noted as resolved. Four hobos received sentences ranging from two to six days each, completing the brief court action.
Grain-O is promoted as a healthful, invigorating grain drink recommended by doctors as a diabetes substitute for coffee. It is described as a genuine nourishing food drink with a rich brown color similar to coffee and priced at 15 and 25 cents. Children are noted to thrive on Grain-O.
J. M. Cannon of Grand Central plans new features never seen in local shops. A nursery on the second floor will allow mothers to leave their children with an experienced nurse while shopping. A central iron balcony with brass trimmings will house a ladies ready to wear department styled like a reception room with plush furnishings.
An advertisement extols practical magnetic healing taught by S W Axtell and Piskens, claiming teachers without real practice cannot teach. It asserts Axtell’s course yields real results, daily earnings for graduates, and offers diplomas and funding terms.
Ladies can wear shoes one size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease powder shaken into footwear. It relieves tight or new shoes and eases coins and bunions with instant comfort. Claimed as a major comfort discovery, it cures swollen feet blisters and callous spots and helps with ingrowing nails sweating and hot feet. Available at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with a free trial address Allen S. Olmstead Le Roy NY.
Tony Williams returns from Joplin and Carthage after a successful cake walk series. He plans several elaborate walks at Sedalia street air and teases a fattening tonic pitch. Kinetoscope pictures of the Jeffries Fitzsimmons fight will play at Coates opera house in Kansas City all next week.
An advertisement claims Lung Irritation leads to consumption and that Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey cures coughs and colds while strengthening the lungs. Sold for twenty five cents at all druggists. Talcum powder.
The text extols DeWitts Little Early Risers as a faultless pill that cleanses and revives the system without weakening it. Described as mild, pleasant to take, and free from objectionable drugs, they are presented as assisting health rather than forcing treatment, according to Servant-Harker Drug Co.
The professor says Green's August Flower is widely used for dyspepsia liver and stomach issues and constipation. He notes it suits tourists salesmen and office workers with headaches from irregular habits. Sample bottle offered by A. B. McGowan and Otis W. Smith. sold by dealers in civilized countries.
The Santa Fe Route offers daily excursions to California in comfortable tourist sleepers with modern cars. Small conductors and porters accompany the trips and they are patronized by many elite travelers. Low rate tickets and picturesque routes across the continent are highlighted for descriptive literature requests.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad markets tours across Colorado Utah and New Mexico offering two routes through the Rocky mountains with tickets via Cripple Creek the famed gold camp and through Pullman palace cars between Denver San Francisco Los Angeles and Portland. Also promotes the Ogden Gateway line to Utah Idaho Montana Oregon and Washington.
A.S. Schear of Sedalia Missouri saved his child from death by croup using One Minute Cough Cure. The product claims to cure coughs colds pneumonia la grippe and all throat and lung troubles. Leo Harris a post office clerk celebrated his 21st birthday yesterday.
An old advertisement claims DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve cures piles and promises lasting relief. The copy references a drugstore named Servant Harker Drug Co. and asserts permanent results.
Several short ads offer work and goods. Listings include a nurse needed for two sick ladies at 215 West Main or Mrs Edwards at 17th and Osage, a nurse for housework at 408 South Moniteau, a survey for sale cheap in exchange for carpentry, a second hand type writer, a parlor heating store bargain, shampoo service via Miss Lulu B Williams 139 W Cooper, and a black coat and vest size chest 37 for sale at Katy depot Jn.
The article touts the Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers circus as the metropolitan attraction, promising a Sedalia show on Thursday August 24 with performances similar to New York’s Madison Square Garden, including elephants and acrobatics, and notes $50,000 in school bonds burned in New York. It also mentions a delayed Texas to St Louis train and real estate ads.
A grain based drink Grain O is promoted as a coffee substitute. A reader notes trying Grain O for a week changed preference from coffee, praising its nourishing qualities. The ad claims it strengthens the system and is suitable for children. Available in 15c and 25c packages from grocers with preparation directions.
The note urges readers to place want ads in the Sentinel, promising reach to 2,500 homes daily for a quarter. Ten words three times for 25c.
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