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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1905
Page
2
President editor talks up Mercantile business with Bell Company in Queen City as telecom ventures expand. Local discussion centers on lines, service and potential financial impact in 260 era listings.
Washington correspondent writing under the name Savo yard argues a new conservative party could absorb northern Democrats and wary Republicans. He asserts Democrats split between radicals and conservatives, with past defeats and a potential third party drawing from both major parties to split votes.
An El Paso dispatch reports Elijah Dowie’s scheme to establish Eden in Tamaulipas with 2,000,000 acres granted by President Diaz. The plan envisions seven cities headed by Eden, vast irrigation via volcano tunnels, railroads, and a self governed code, with mules and oysters as labor and resources for a futuristic Zion.
The postmaster general orders postmasters to enforce anti lottery laws strictly and remove any newspapers or publications advertising lotteries or prize schemes. It defines lotteries to include guessing contests and raffles and targets schemes selling goods via councils, tickets, or certificates as fraudulent. The order aims to curb fraudulent prize schemes and enforce mail service rules.
Text describes an order requiring employees handling main matter to scrutinize publications for prohibited lottery content and withdraw such material from the mails. It notes reports to the department and enforcement under federal statutes. Prohibition covers church fairs charitable events and private concerns.
An advocate argues true cleanliness includes internal health and maps the dangers of unclean organs. The ad claims Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery cleans the stomach bowels blood liver and tissues and prevents diseases. A testimonial from Johnn J. Cougheneur of Glen Savage Pa describes improved appetite and energy after use. Constipation is labeled as uncleanliness cured by Pleasant Pellets.
In Durham, a new sect calling itself the Holy Ghost and Us led by Rev. Sanford gains power. The group wins a school board and seeks to use public funds for its teachers. Skeptics note the furnace and books arrive after prayer while lamenting commerce-like methods and plan a town lottery to deter the movement.
The notice promotes Flower’s annual wash goods sale this week and mentions Worrell’s Insect Exterminator sold at all druggists. It reads like a compact historical ad snippet with two product mentions and a sale event.
The Sedalia Steam Laundry announces a new collar and cuff machine to enhance their already well equipped plant. They promise higher perfection in work and invite customers to try their services.
In New London on June 26 Yale remains the favorite as Harvard gains momentum for the annual Yale Harvard boat race. Alumni arrive, bets form at odds around 2 to 1, and crowds gather to watch final practice spins. The varsity eight will race upstream at 6 p.m. after the four oared and freshmen events.
An old advertisement touts Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar as the original laxative cough syrup. It claims ten times easier cures for coughs and lung ailments when the bowels are open, noting a bottle with red clover blossom and honey bee imagery sold by W. E. Bard Drug Co.
A fragment of stone from the old Austerfield church in Nottinghamshire England arrived in Boston on the Cunarder Sylvania for the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial association. It will be set in the Pro vincetown monument with bricks from Delihaver Holland and stones from Secroobyark Plymouth and Southampton, England, the Mayflower’s last stops.
An advertising claim for Kodol Dyspepsia Care stating the product digests all foods regardless of stomach condition and delivers nutrients to blood and tissues to strengthen the body. Promoted by W. E. Bard Drug Co with a list of indigestion related ailments.
President Roosevelt departs Washington for a Cambridge trip to attend Harvard University commencement and his class reunion. He will stay two days in Cambridge before heading to Oyster Bay for the summer.
The salve penetrates skin pores with antiseptic rubefacient and heating action to subdue inflammation and cure burns cuts eczema tetter ringworm and other skin diseases. It is advertised as a specific for piles and is made by B C DeWitt & Co and sold by W E Bard Drug Co.
CAST OFF CLOTHING. Will buy all your old clothing and pay best prices. Bell phone 555. TI. ARENSON, 112 Ohio Street. Brandt & Grote for Vigoral Health and Big "S" flour. None better.
Philadelphia on June 26 reports Jack Monroe former title hopeful will meet Jack Williams of Philadelphia in a middleweight clash sanctioned by the National Athletic.
L C Snell operates as a dermatologist and chiropodist at 152 West Third Street offering hair scalp and complexion treatments in a professional practice.
This week we advertise Cuban Coffee at 20c per pound and San Marto coffee with price missing. The listing includes sugar, root beer extract, imperial tea, lard, dry sail bacon, honey, corn starch, and eggs. Fresh fish deliveries occur Tuesdays and Fridays. Both phones for prompt delivery.
Lake Placid N Y June 26 The seventh annual Lake Placid conference on Home Economics opened at Lake Placid club and will run through July 1. Today and tomorrow cover progress reports on courses for elementary secondary and trade schools colleges and universities home education outlines for women's clubs. Friday and Saturday discuss food problems personal hygiene and industrial home standards of routine work.
Tonight's club card features two reputations for hard hitting. Officials expect six rounds of fast fighting as the main and undercard deliver brisk exchanges and decisive blows.
A patient praising Foley's Kidney Cure reports wasting away for months with leading physicians offering remedies, then recovering completely after two bottles. Arlington Pharmacy endorses the cure based on the testimonial.
A local laundry advertises cleaning of curtains bedspreads quilts blankets and comforts. Monarch Laundry run by Chas Van Antwerp invites customers to consult about family washing and offers two phone lines.
The new steamship George W. Perkins was launched at West Superior yards in Wisconsin on June 26. The launch drew a large crowd as part of Pittsburg Steamship Company’s quartet of monsters.
Hamrick and Graham appear as sellers or sponsors linked to the S branded product and Vigoral Health flour in a brief notice. The item references a promotional or naming arrangement involving these entities, with no further contractual specifics provided.
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