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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1899
Page
3
Sedalia passengers may board the Katy flyer sleeper to St Louis at 8 30 p m and the through sleeper to Chicago leaving Sedalia at midnight arriving in Chicago at 2 30 p m with through east connections. For low one way and round trip rates contact C M Penv LeTon Sedalia Mo Passenger and Ticket Agent.
One way fare to San Francisco Los Angeles and San Diego set at 34.30 on sale daily. Travel markets highlight affordable round trips with limited time offers. Passengers can plan trips to major California cities from regional hubs.
One way fares to Helena and Butte Montana are 30 dollars. A separate 31.70 dollar fare covers Portland Oregon Seattle and Tacoma Washington. Tickets are on sale daily.
Advertises a series of six dates in July August and September for trips to Texas Kansas Arkansas Louisiana Missouri Oklahoma Arizona and New Mexico. The fare is one fare plus 2 dollars for the round trip and is valid for 21 days.
Special train will leave Sedalia at 7:00 a m on August 1 for Fort Scott event. Round trip fare is 1.00 with returning train departing Fort Scott at 11:30 p m the same day. Plenty of room for everybody.
Sedalia departs at 4 30 am for Hannibal in August with a round trip price of 1 50. Return from Hannibal departs at midnight in August, enabling passengers to attend the Emancipation Celebration in Hannibal, Missouri.
An Aug 4 1899 excursion offers round trip for $1.00. A special train departs Sedalia at 6 45 am on Aug 4 returning from Moberly at midnight the same day.
Tired and sick people are urged to rest at Sweet Springs. The resort advertises hotel and cottage accommodations at reasonable rates with a medical and surgical sanitarium on the grounds. For details write Wm. Cott M D Sweet Springs.
An advertisement urges homeowners to save their houses by securing straight loans through Bailey and Smith at Equitable Building and Loan Association, promoting direct financing options.
Ten daily passenger trains run through Sedalia with wide vestibules plate glass dust and cinder proof steam heat Pintch gas safety and comfort. For rates routes maps and general information contact J W McQuaidin P T Sedalia Mo.
One way fares to all main California points are reduced until further notice. San Diego to Redding inclusive priced at $3430 with proportionate rates to branch line points within the state.
One way fares to Portland Tacoma Seattle and Spokane listed at 31.70 dollars with rates to intermediate points not to exceed these amounts.
June 25 to July 11 inclusive offer round trip tickets to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo for 21.85 Denver region to Glenwood Springs 33.85 Salt Lake Ogden 34.55 St Paul Minneapolis 15.05 Duluth Superior 22.35 All fares valid for return until October 31 except Salt Lake Ogden valid for go days only.
A Cincinnati listing advertises a sale with June 26 27 28 dates and a return option valid until July 5. The notice notes a price of 16.55 dollars and emphasizes the sale terms and return window.
The notice details July 1 to 4 round trip fares to points within 200 miles and extended dates for Missouri Pacific tickets to many western and southern states. Tickets are valid up to 21 days return with overs, minimum fares stated, and several peak dates in June to August with diverse routes and agents named.
The notice advertises night train tickets at 23.30 for July 31 and all trains on August 1, valid to August 15 with an extension to August 31 for a small fee. Citizens may reduce travel to 20 hours by taking out No 4.
Classified notice offering 100 note heads or letter heads plus 100 envelopes with printed addresses for $1. Also advertises 100 round cornered cards for 75 cents and 100 cards cut from cardboard for 50 cents.
Advertisement urges use of ready made bill heads for small merchants. It offers 100 bill heads or statements at 50 cents and suggests using proper bill paper instead of scraps of paper.
An old advertisement promotes prints including 100 letter heads note heads envelopes cards statements and circulars for $2. It urges small town merchants to order by mail with payment and highlights low prices and neighborly competition.
The article recalls Liszt's sharp wit with a young pianist, and shares a longLiszt anecdote about how he and Wagner and Bulow lived in Leipzig. It describes Wagner's frugal temper and a wood-for-fire quarrel resolved through a firewood plan and a humorous rebuke. It also notes school-age royals at Eton and Harrow, with Harrow attracting foreign princes and Eton counting English nobles among its pupils.
An American visitor touring Wind sor would face no royal pageantry at public schools yet find elevated status in the rare Duke of Albany, known as Charley, son of the late Prince Leopold. At Eton he is treated like other boys despite his title and lineage.
Lieut Hoarst of the French navy recounts exploring West Africa with four companions sailing the Niger in a small aluminum boat from Timbuctoo to the sea. The tale highlights Nigerien women and men with humorous observations including a joke about breeches after a war proclamation.
A Fort Worth woman on a bicycle arrived in Fort Scott at 10 yesterday morning wearing a Colt revolver belt blue skirt brown leggings and sailor hat. She refused to name herself but said she was bound for New York via Kansas City with a planned twenty one day trip. She lingered briefly at Penniman's hardware store and rang her bell as she rode on.
The Ogle County Reporter notes that drunkards in numerous Argentine towns are shamed and reformed by eight day street sweeping after each intoxication arrest. The plan is described as more corrective than temperance talks.
The Nez Perces country 100 miles southeast of eastern Washington now opens to settlers and miners. Historic placers yielded 35 million dollars, but rich quartz ledges and gold bearing fields remain, with Buffalo Hump range quartz veins cropping out and extending for miles as the Northern Pacific builds the Clear Water line from Lewiston.
Special train departs Sedalia at 6 am August 1 arrives Ft Scott 11 05 am. Return leaves Ft Scott at 1 pm. Offer emphasizes a lovely trip for little money on a reliable service.
Advertises a travel route to Ft Scott via the Missouri Pacific line with a fare of $1 and a start date of August 1. The brief notes miles of scenery and the transportation option offered by Mo Pac.
The Mo Pac special leaves Sedalia at 6am on August 1 for Ft Scott. Round trip fare is set at $1.
A Missouri Pacific trip to Ft Scott on August 1 offers a round trip fare of $1. The simple travel offer highlights affordable transportation for that date.
A special train offered by Missouri Pacific to Fort Scott Kansas on August 1 at 6 am for the quoted price of one dollar. The notice notes a special departure time and destination with no additional services listed.
For 5 and 54, per cent money, see H. B. Scott, 907 South Moniteau. Also real estate for sale and exchange.
Extensive arrangements by Missouri and Kansas City Masons for a special train from Kansas City on August 5 at 6 20 pm via the Great Rock Island route to Colorado Springs arriving Sunday morning for breakfast. Optional Denver direct arrival at 11 am. Promotions include cheap round trips to Cripple Creek Georgetown Salt Lake Grand Junction. Contact A H Moffet GS W PA USG Hough TPA Kansas City Mo for sleeping car reservations.
Weekly Thursday evening departures from Kansas City Union Pacific line reach Portland in 72 hours. The tourist car offers maximum comfort at low cost with special care for women and children. No train changes for travelers to San Francisco or Los Angeles. porters accompany each car. Ticket offices listed with contact details and J. B. Frawley as contact.
The Northwestern Lines offer summer tours to fishing and resort areas in Northern Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan peninsula and east via the Great Lakes. Tickets at greatly reduced rates on sale daily good returning until Oct 31. Stop over privileges both ways for Greater American Exposition visitors. For information call or visit A L Fisher Tray Pass Agent 823 Main Street Kansas City.
Will B. Hunter of the Chicago Times-Herald recounts how a Chicago couple found an economical way to travel and what they saw. The tale appears in a small book offered by F. M. Byron, general western agent of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Co, Chicago.
A sales notice promotes The Life and Achievements of Admiral Dewey by Murat Halstead. The large 8x10 inch volume runs over 500 pages with nearly 100 halftone illustrations and a color map. Priced at $1.50, the ad promises enormous demand and big commissions, with outfit free and responses via The Dominions Company in Chicago.
Wanted. Every Sedalian who can afford to buy one or more ten dollar shares, payable one dollar per month, per share in the Sedalia Fruit Gardens Canning and Nursery company, to help establish a home industry employing dozens. Send postal card for prospectus or call SENTINEL office. Address secretary W. E. Good P.O. box 155 Sedalia.
Servant Harker Drug Co. offers Wheelon by the gallon for receptions and events, delivering ice cold quantities to customers.
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