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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1899
Page
5
The notice touts the Sentinel Want Column as the fastest cheapest way to reach 2,500 homes daily. Ad rates are twenty words three times for 25 cents.
Advertisement policy states three weekly insertions under Wanted For Sale For Rent Lost and Found not to exceed twenty words for twenty five cents. This notice outlines placement rules and pricing for classified ads.
A missing gold bar pin shaped with an A formed by nine pearls. A reward is offered at the Sentinel office.
A Jersey cow is taken up and held. Owner can reclaim by contacting R A Todd at 316 Randolph Street and paying this notice fee.
For Sale parlor heating stove and bargain offered. Address AX in Sentinel office. Wanrep cattle to pasture with fine grass and water, 24 miles west of town at 75 cents per head. Harve Seibert.
For rent a pleasant room located at the southeast corner of Sixteenth and Osage. Preference given to a lady occupant.
Person seeks western land with good title free of incumbrance and money for the right property. Inquire at Room 5, No 314 Ohio street.
Lapres Bring or send your ad dress to Miss Lulu B Williams 139 Ww Cooper street for shampooing 25 cents.
The Beta Sigma Omicron sorority hosted a large trolley party as a compliment to Miss Crenshaw's house party. Members Bessie Doyle Lucile Brown Blanche Imhoff Alice Miner Gertrude Maltby Jennie Morey Mabel Hain Edna Crenshaw Helen Demuth Mary Temple led the event with a 7 o'clock start visiting city lines and Forest Park for an elegant moonlit luncheon.
Mrs C L Shugart, wife of a Missouri Pacific brakeman, was surprised at home for her birthday. Guests included Mesdames Games Conners Butler Shugart Stewart Deleplain Whiprecht Spakes Sheerin Behrens Berry and others with Misses Fretia Games Mamie Emrich Clara Guyman at the punch bowl. The mandolin club Stein Maupin and the Suttle Brothers provided music.
John Laple and wife of Liberty Missouri were in the city today returning from Houstonia where Miss Kate Schon dellmeyer wed Mr Joseph Blackburn yesterday. The Combs and Murry families with friends picnicked at the park last evening. 5B Amess and wife of Dallas Texas visit James Montgomery and family en route to Chicago. Lou Ames, laid up after a train fall, may recover little. Mr and Mrs John Snitzler chaperone camping party below Smithton this week for Miss Crenshaw’s guests.
W. J. Whiprecht is cultivating a new bean variety called the Kentucky Wonder stringless bean on his premises. A cluster observed by the Sentinel features beans over nine inches long with others nearly as long, and last year he produced a cluster of seven beans exceeding 16 inches. The beans grow like ordinary pole beans and make an appetizing dish.
Allen's Foot-Ease claims to cure painful smarting and growing nails and instantly relieve corns and bunions. It makes tight shoes feel easy and promises relief for sweating callous hot tired feet. Sold by druggists and shoe stores or by mail for 25 cents with a trial package free from Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy New York.
Continued from first page by the Indians or government settlement through treaty is suggested as lands are allotted and tribal title ends. The railway company plans to assert a claim to each alternate section and will pursue it in the courts as learned authentically indicated.
A list of workers from multiple locations with illnesses including fever dyspepsia and diarrhoea. Names include A. R. Thrasher from Smith op fever, nia Houser at a crusher, C. M. Vermillion in Parsons fever, J. E. Brown in Atoka diarrhoea, J. F. Ebert in Franklin Junction fever, and Chas. McKnight at Mekko.
Arthur Pillsbury Dodge unveils a noiseless kinetic motor claiming a smokeless, non audible locomotive. He opens a large Wilmington plant to mass produce these motors, greeted by Wabash line agent W. D. Wood who praises the project.
A period note discusses an illustrated book titled Lake and Sea detailing popular summer resorts accessible via Mr. Woods railway, available by mail from St. Louis. It also mentions a Christian church Sunday school excursion train to Fairmount Park, Kansas City, and local social updates including Whiprecht at Shugart party and Jas Woods welcoming a daughter. Shugart is ill with muscular rheumatism.
The Sedalia excursion to Kansas City to Fairmount park tomorrow is billed as the largest of its kind. The train leaves Missouri Pacific depot at 8 15 and returns around six. Fare is 1 25 for adults and 65 cents for children with pleasant park attractions promised.
Trouble looms at Green Ridge with potential mobs in days ahead. Wareham, father of the accused woman, returned yesterday. Rumors hint at punishments from whipping to tar and feathers. W H Bartle from St Louis has joined J M Cannons Grand Central.
Mr and Mrs E C White depart for Warrensburg as he spends a week promoting the Collecting and Credit Reporting Association of Missouri. Mrs White remains at Pertle Springs while he interviews local merchants.
A family washing offer is advertised at Bowman and Dorns Laundry charging 20 cents per dozen. The notice promotes laundry services with a simple price point likely targeting local households.
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