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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1900
Page
8
A New York representative of the manufacturer presents a late invention the fin de siecle comb that allows dressing hair without pins and invites spectators to view it at no cost.
The text touts exclusive designs and novelties as superior to market rivals and promises that the enthusiasm will show upon first view of the purchases. It emphasizes appeal and value in the new offerings.
Hillsboro Texas reports a switch engine failure, two cars released, then moved back. Petitions circulate to close a Missouri, Kansas and Texas restaurant in Hillsboro to allow a $25,000 hotel by Beckham of Greenville. Hospital arrivals list several workers and a local brakeman, J C Ragsdale, plans a Indiana trip before return to work.
A night of wrecks and fire along Missouri lines includes four cars derailing near Lamonte after a switch, a Missouri Pacific passenger train stuck in snow for seven hours, and a Katy fire that consumed a cotton platform and a twenty eight foot bridge near Gainesville. Eleven bales of cotton were lost. damage totals run high. A vaccination mailer crew arrived from Texas to treat sore arms among workers. Obituary notices report a former Missouri Pacific brakeman dying in Rose Hill. The Hillsboro dining rooms of the MKT remain open.
C Wilson a Katy brakeman is laying off today and Missouri Pacific shops report a water shortage. All shopmen are issued shovels and set to work amid the unusual job actions.
R L Walker and G A Baker are laid off today on the Katy and Pacific roads while E L Gardiner and J H Bower report to duties elsewhere. Katy engines fetch water from Lamine tank. Mo Pac 906 returns from shops. Snow blankets territory with eighteen inches on the level. Katy freight engine 241 jumped the Beaman track. Traveling Engineer Schrang and a wrecking crew moved the switch engine back on.
A fragmented OCR line lists mixed price fragments such as 14¢ 15¢ and 124¢ along with codes like 6c 93 10¢C 12$c and LIC 8c, presenting no coherent item or event.
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