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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1901
Page
5
A Sunday general prayer in Sedalia precedes a Pettis county thunder shower. Sedalia recorded the least rain though showers cooled the air and cleared dust. Forecaster predicts more heavy rain tonight, with prayers urged to help increase the supply.
The funeral for August Meier who died from heat exhaustion Monday will be at the German Evangelical church Wednesday at 4 p.m. Rev. Pfeiffer conducts the services with pallbearers Wm. Meuller, F. Stahlhute, John Lumpe, Charles Walch, D. Goetz and M. Mittle assisting.
Missouri Pacific fireman Frank McCormick who has been on the Kirkwood accommodation for ten days resumes his former Sedalia to St Louis run and mingles with friends here again.
M. E. Reed, living seven miles south of Sedalia, has purchased the grocery store of W. E. Poindexter located at Fourteenth and Missouri Avenues and will assume management immediately.
Charles Walch today assumed charge of the Boston Cafe, from which he retired some months ago. H. W. Servant and H. Lewis have been the proprietors of the place recently.
Mr. George E. Dugan notes many men willing to fill vacancies created by the recent painters strike.
Lucinda Jackson died at her home at Osage and Morgan streets, aged 49. The funeral is planned for Thursday.
Floyd Wilcox and Leslie F. Payne of Pettis county have enlisted in the coast artillery and will leave tonight for Jefferson barracks to begin service.
City Council will receive bids for construction of unlaid sidewalks per an ordinance. Sidewalks on the North side of Fifteenth Street from Ingram Avenue to Engineer Street are to be built. Bids due by 5 p.m. on August 5, 1901. The council may reject any or all bids. Street and Alley Committee members J. L. Babcock J. F. Scally H. M. Hammond.
Local notices list Ott's fountain and soda water promotions, drinks priced 10 cents for ice cream soda and 5 cents for children, with frequent visits by residents and travelers. Several names are recorded visiting Sedalia or traveling for business, including Collins, Dalby, Clinton, Moore, Oglesby, Wells, Wagner, Agey, and Monsees, among others.
A testimonial advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery as cures for womanly ailments. It touts a free letter consultation, stresses confidentiality, and quotes patients praising relief from bearing down and other symptoms. The piece urges readers to write to Dr. Pierce in Buffalo for specialist opinions and catalogs additional remedies and pills.
W H Brandon a noted salesman has developed a new display rack for dry goods stores and applied for a patent Refuse imitation and promote Red Cross Ball Blue as a safe product during the feature note.
Morgan Pros shipped four car loads of cattle in a special narrow gauge train from Cole Camp on Sunday. The stock went to Mose Hogan's firm Campbell Hunt Adams in Kansas City. Isaac Warren also sent a car load of cattle.
Cattle to the same firm today and M. O. Green of Smithton has 38 head of fat cattle which he expects to ship one day this week or the first of next.
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