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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1899
Page
3
Ten daily passenger trains through Sedalia feature wide vestibules steam heat and safety. reduced one way rates to California valid until further notice with San Diego to Redding inclusive at 3450 dollars and proportionate branch line rates.
Page fragment notes two church sale offers. Gent Assembly Presby Church Minneapolis lists a price of 17.77 and sale dates May 16 17 18 with return valid through June 3. Dunkards Roanoke WA lists 27.90 and sale dates May 1 and 19 with return through June 24.
Rates listed for Portland Tacoma Seattle and Spokane set at 31.70 with intermediate routes not exceeding these figures. The notice outlines fare caps and specifies destinations in the northwest region.
The notice lists Mystic Shrine Buffalo items priced at 25.90 with a sale on the 12th and 13th offering goods good until July 2 for return or rail.
Woodmen of America Kansas City offers $2.85 round trips on sale June 3–9 with return by June 22. Annual Sangerfest in Moberly Mo priced $3.30, sales June 6–7 with return by June 9. Medical Association Columbus Ohio $18.55, sale for all trains to St Louis arriving June 2, 8, 9 with return by June 15. Shriners Buffalo June 14–15 round trip $25.80, sales June 11–12, return by July 2.
Elks launch Purple Week with $7.55 round trip fares on sale June 19 and 20, good for travel to St Louis and return by June 24, enabling attendees to plan a short visit.
Travelers heading to Montana and Washington can ride tourist sleepers from Kansas City every Tuesday and Thursday after March 14 via the Burlington Route. Through cars run to Butte Spokane Seattle Puget Sound with connections on the Montana Express leaving 10 40 a m. First or second class through sleeping cars are available Kansas City to Montana and Washington. First class through sleeping car service also begins March 12 to Butte Anaconda. mail L W Waxeve y J C Bramhall G P A ZT 2 St Louis Mo Kansas City Mo
Over five years the Northern Pacific has modernized its track bed bridges tunnels and roadbed. Investments in 1898 and prior years produced heavy steel rails graded routes brick and concrete tunnels and steel bridges. New locomotives and through trains from St Paul to Tacoma Seattle and Portland cover 2000 miles with high comfort cars and a dining car. For Wonderland 99 send six cents to Charles S Fee. Kansas City to Portland via Union Pacific runs 72 hours, quickest to the coast with seamless car changes and porters. J B Frawley handles tickets from Kansas City offices and Union Station.
One fare for the Round Trip from Buffalo and Return. One fare for the Round Trip From Chicago via the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway. Tickets on sale June 11 12 and 13. Return limit may be extended to July 2. A portion of the trip optional boat or rail. Stop at Chautauqua if desired. Full particulars on application to BP Humphrey T P A Kansas City MO or FM Byron G W A Cleveland OH.
A Chicago couple sought to travel for less than a year ago and, despite financial concerns, succeeded. Will B. Hunter of the Chicago Times-Herald recounts their journey and discoveries in a small book available on request. Apply to F. M. Byron, western agent for Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Co, Chicago.
Free of charge to adults with cold chest bronchitis throat or lung troubles call at A S McGowan or Otis W Smith for a sample bottle of Boschee's German Syrup no more than one bottle per person and no free doses for children without parental order. The ad claims it is the only throat and lung remedy widely endorsed by physicians and notes a 75 cent bottle will cure or prove its value available from dealers in all civilized countries.
The ad extols DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as a faultless remedy that cleanses and revives the system without weakening it. It describes them as mild and sure, small and pleasant to take and free from objectionable drugs, aiding rather than compelling Servant’s pharmacy.
The Santa Fe Route offers daily California excursions in tourist sleeping cars with modern comforts and attentive conductors. The service attracts many prominent travelers and features low rate tickets. The California line is described as picturesque with a favorable climate route across the continent. For descriptive literature, contact Geo. W. HacensuchnH P. T. A. Santa Fe Ry Kansas City Mo.
A. T. Morris of Cincinnati Ohio seeks a reliable man to run a forthcoming branch in the area. Respond with references and mention this paper. illustrated catalogue available for 4 cents postage.
Fort Scott Kansas June 5 The committee of Women of the world says Thomas OToole confessed after traveling to Sonora Texas to identify him and Dr Maguire who were arrested on the Mexican border for conspiracy to defraud three Fort Scott lodges of eight thousand dollars by burying rocks in a casket with OToole said to be buried Mrs OToole is said to be seriously implicated
Hoyt's Comedy Co of New York opens a week long engagement at Forest Park tonight. The company is registered at Sieber's hotel and consists of fifteen people including Pete Raymond and wife, A G Allen and wife, Fred Ashey and wife, Fred G Hubbard, Warren Catterlin, Chas Barrington, Frank Watkin, Tom P Jackson and the Misses Claire Summers Nellie Blanchard Ivan Bond and Lizzie Chester.
Opens February 23rd in the Ozark heart with mild bracing climate and wild scenery. Unequal medicinal waters and cheap excursion rates allure travelers. Pullman sleepers from Kansas City. write Bryan Snyder, Frisco Line, St Louis MO, for an illustrated pamphlet.
George F. Ferrell, formerly of the Sedalia Sentinel and editor of the Boonville Advertiser, is named to succeed Col. H. A. Hutchinson as probate judge of Cooper County Missouri. Ferrell had resigned as Boonville editor to take the judgeship.
Money loans available from 1000 dollars upward secured by estate. Partial payments allowed. John H. Bothwell, attorney, Sedalia National Bank Building.
George Francis Train, 70, marked his birthday at the Mills hotel in New York City. The eccentric thinker, famed for advocating simple living and vegetarianism, has long championed healthy habits and disciplined routine as keys to longevity.
The piece describes infant care in Germany with simple upbringing and homemade shoes, and notes a Chinese baby show in Penang with 200 exhibits. It details baby headgear, cosmetics, and elaborate attire, including shaved heads, beaded fringe, silk rosettes, and painted complexions.
A firm of English tea merchants offers every married woman who buys a pound of its 50 cent tea for five consecutive weeks a pension of 2.50 dollars a week in case her husband dies, provided he was in good health when the purchases began. The pension continues while she remains a widow.
A factory with three 260 horsepower boilers tested a 54 inch diameter fan that pushes draft from below instead of a tall chimney. The result improved draft and saved nearly $1,000 annually by using cheaper coal.
An old claim credits Arabs with first butter, describing how milk in camel skins churned by steady jogging turned into butter during travel, illustrating a traditional method.
Chinese detectives form a secret, well organized force with eyes on every man woman and child in China and on each other, including foreigners and natives alike.
Thin pale consump tive persons should use so constructive tonic that enrich the blood and restore nerve force. Scott's Emulsion is based upon scientific principles. We digest the oil for you and strengthen digestive organs by resting and feeding. It stops wasting and produces energy, vigor and warmth. The hypophosphites invigorate the nerves and brain tissues. 1.00 at all druggists. Scott and Bowne, Chemists, New York.
A sequence of property transfers shows numerous conveyances and deeds. Notable transactions include Silas Mitchell acquiring 105 acres in Flat Creek township for 3200 dollars and Mary E Parrish obtaining 49 acres in Smithton township for 1000 dollars.
A lachrymose tone shadows reports that England has purchased the Tonga islands while Germany faces renewed threats and Berlin experiences dampened mood amid shifting imperial tensions. Brooklyn Eagle notes the global upset and foiled ambitions.
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