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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1902
Page
6
An advertisement proclaims a coffee named Our Glory for morning meals at 25 cents a pound. It emphasizes strong flavor without rankness, economical use, and more cups per pound. The Brandt firscer Co claims a unique blend with a mild, pleasant taste and warns against imitators.
Alfred Lund a 10 year old boy near Maryville got a pistol to amuse a 2 year old sibling. He swung the gun and fired into bed clothes the flash setting the bedding on fire. He fetched water and put out the blaze before the baby was harmed.
In General Charles H. T. Collins's will an unusual bequest leaves his two regimental banners to rest in the tomb of General Ulysses S. Grant, honoring the Union commander.
A Detroit newspaper advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy that cures catarrh by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It offers 100 dollar reward for any failure and invites testimonials, with sales through druggists and a companion Hall's Family Pills product.
Mark Twain returned to his old Monroe county residence and attended a church service where an old fashioned sermon followed by his retirement, as tired as he was half a century earlier.
Loganton resident Scott Currin says the One Minute Cough Cure beats all medicines for coughs colds croup and throat and lung troubles. The product is marketed as the safe quick acting remedy popular with mothers and claimed to yield to croup and bronchitis.
Republicans in Buchanan County are hopelessly divided over the state ticket with no willingness to participate at that level, yet every politician seeks influence over federal patronage and appointments.
Eugene Todd, a prominent Vernon county farmer, asserts he killed forty four wolves in the county.
Old man Sowerby recounts the Spooner mule Caractacus and its tale of loyalty. Wash Hancock and Parsons joke about mules and mentions Col. Bill Spooner, Scipio, and a dramatic grave-house scene ending with Caractacus dying of old age and grief.
Over two years the county court proposed a bounty of 1.50 for every wolf scalp collected. Vernon and Barton counties report increasing wolf numbers causing heavy damage to small animals and fowl.
This ad urges readers to prepare a bottle of Chamberlain's Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for summer needs. It claims high effectiveness for bowel complaints in children and adults and notes local druggists selling it. It implies savings by buying now to avoid trips to town.
A town banking leader is recorded paying taxes on $80 in personal property while a barber operating in the bank basement pays $120. The remark, Down with the barbers, mocks the barber’s perceived wealth.
Spring fever signals biliousness and a sluggish liver with poisoned bowels. DeWitt's Little Early Risers stimulate the liver open the bowels cleanse impurities and guard against illness. A user from Moundsville West Virginia testimonials the pills do more good than anything tried. Bard Drug Company distributes them.
The Nodaway county Republicans endorse the Maryville Tribune editor for congress. Democrats plan to defeat Mr. Three E's McJimsey, taking peculiar pleasure in the outcome.
R S Meredith of Willow Grove Delaware endorses DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as a certain cure for piles and skin ailments. The ad asserts piles yield to the salve, claims it cures wounds, warns against counterfeits, and lists W E Bard Drug Company as the seller.
OLAS UNIONS in Iola announce fourteen labor unions preparing a Labor Day celebration. They promise it will outshine the Fourth of July events and draw widespread participation.
The Wellington Kansas Mail prints the amounts listed by various persons for taxation, detailing local taxpayer figures and related assessments.
W L Jones informs friends of a general transfer business offering coal and wood hauling garbage hauling and moving services telephone Queen City 444 located in the area known as Queen City.
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