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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1903
Page
6
Official estimate from the British consul at Erzerum places earthquake deaths in the Van district of Asiatic Turkey at about a score of villages destroyed and many more partially demolished.
A combined notice offers a summer tour booklet from the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway with routes and rates to Eastern resorts, plus an ad for Botanic Blood Balm promising free samples and medical guidance. The Blood Balm claims to purify blood, cure skin diseases, and is marketed by Blood Balm Co. in Atlanta with Sedalia drug referrals and a $1 per bottle price.
Shipment arrives Saturday offering 25 cent per ton rebate on all orders to deliver coal off cars. Coal prices rising. act now to avoid storage costs. Contact Stanley Coal Co by phone 26. Also note Rocky Mountain Tea promoted by W. E. Bard Drug Co as a bride’s cosmetic.
Advertises farm loans at 5 percent interest with partial payment privileges. Targeted for Pettis County realty with $1,000 and up at lowest rates and best terms. From J. H. Bothwell, attorney and counselor, Sedalia National Bank building.
Advertisement seeks a boy with a horse to carry a route for the capital office. Apply at once at Se dalia capital office located at Second and La mine streets.
Youngstown Ohio reports a novel apparatus by Edward McGarvey to weigh each car in a moving train at regular speed. The device records every car weight and can relay data to distant offices without interrupting rail operations. Tests on an 80 ton scale by Central Railroad of Pennsylvania showed rapid, accurate results within a second of circuit closure.
A June report from Americus Georgia details a 73-year-old enslaved woman living on Elton C. Parker’s plantation who, after a gradual skin whitening process, now appears caucasian except for her face. She has refused show offers and wishes to die on her birthplace plantation.
Porter trial Estate Co lists numerous bargains across Sedalia, Missouri area. Properties include eight to nine room houses, farms of 44 to 169 acres, and land parcels near city limits with prices from $35 per acre to $2400, plus rentals and straight dealing advertised from 404 Ohio Street established in 1880.
Boies Bros and Co offers 218 Ohio St property and numerous Missouri and Kansas lands for sale or exchange. Includes 56 acre Pawnee bottom, 2080 acre ranch with water and buildings, 2000 acre alfalfa land with house, and multiple quarter sections near Sedalia, Leoti, and Garden City with prices from 5 to 12.50 per acre. Also notes rental potential and a 25 percent return possibility for prudent buyers.
Kodol claims to strengthen digestive organs to digest assimilate and transform wholesome food into blood that nourishes nerves tissues and muscles and recovers the whole body. It cures indigestion dyspepsia and stomach disorders and is sold by W E Bard Drug Co.
Bids requested to build rock roads within city limits matching exterior roads. Specifications available from the superintendent. Locations include Barrett avenue north a half mile, West Main street east 144 mile, Catholic cemetery gate south half mile, and Marshall road south four miles. Bids due by 4 p.m. Tuesday June 9 1903.
A $2.50 round trip excursion departs Sedalia for St Louis on June 6 at 2 50 am to visit the World’s Fair grounds. The offer includes access to amusement gardens and a big Brooklyn vs St Louis baseball contest. Katy tickets range to points under $1 50, with Sundays and standard rates noted. Katy also runs a tourist sleeper on the flyer leaving St Louis Tuesday nights for Mexico Arizona and California.
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