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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1902
Page
7
A playful newspaper notice presents a verse about Mary losing and finding her lamb. It instructs to submit copy by 10 a m to appear the same day in the Sentinel classifieds.
For sale or trade a five room cottage on a corner lot with a store building. Will exchange for a small well improved farm. Address C, No. 401 West Tenth, Sedalia, No. 213 dlme.
Short notice rental ad seeks upstairs rooms at 116 East Fifth Street with possession available April 1.
House of five rooms with good well grape arbor stable and improvements. Cheap for cash within two weeks. Apply 613 Ohio Street la 39 6t.
Sales pitch touts Brilliant Gaslight Burners that fit any coal or oil lamp, require no chimney or wick, produce clean light and no smoke, and offer 200 percent profit to agents. Sample free from Enterprise Manufacturing Co. box 483 Cincinnati Ohio.
Beginning April 1 the union barber shops will charge 5 cents extra for shaving the neck.
Wanted man to take orders in city and furnish own rig for country duties. Good pay and expenses. Call 10 to 12 a.m. at 220 South Prospect.
Job notice seeking a young woman to learn typesetting at Rosa Pearle's Paper on the second floor of the Hoffman building. Applications accepted during 3-4 datc.
Wanted rousing crowds to view the Pan American Museum of Anatomy now on display at 206 Ohio. The world in wax awaits visitors open daily from 10 a m to 10 p m admission is gentlemen only and entries are restricted to men.
Help wanted for boys to deliver newspapers must own horses and inquire at this office after 4 PM.
A classified notice seeks a buggy horse for use in feed delivery. Contact Cohen's Hot Stuff Coal Company by phone for details and arrangements.
Effective October 15 1901 excursion rates are placed on sale by the South Western railway to all principal winter resorts of the South and Southwest Ask any agent of the Southern railway for full information.
Southern Pacific Sunset Limited runs from New Orleans to Los Angeles and San Francisco on Mondays Thursdays and Saturdays. The train features lounging car compartments ladies boudoir parlor car dining car and other onboard amenities. Literature on rain and California available from J H Lathrop Gen Agent 903 Olive St St Louis Mo.
MSS wR The Old Reliable advertises low winter rail fares from Sedalia to multiple regions. Home seekers round trip tickets offered first and third Tuesday monthly valid 21 days to the south west and north. March and April one way tickets to Montana Western Colorado Utah Wyoming Idaho Washington Oregon from 17.85 to 27.85. California 26.85. Minnesota and Dakota dates with low 18.40 rate. First class California return 46.85 with through routes and stopovers.
For rent an 80 acre farm seven miles southwest of Sedalia with good improvements. Apply to Frank Hughes, Public Administrator.
Tickets anywhere with one fare plus two dollars round trip. Homeseekers tickets on the first and third Tuesdays monthly. Destinations include Kansas Indian Territory Oklahoma Texas with routes to Reding San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego El Paso and intermediate points. Also cheap rates to Montana Utah Washington. Fort Worth to return $17.45 for cattle convention. Sales March 8 9 10 limited to return by March 15. Call Katy’s agent.
Texas produces staple crops and vast tracts remain undeveloped awaiting intelligent farmers. Rice cultivation gains importance in Coast Country prairies along the Southern Pacific Sunset irrigation line. Readers are invited to request a Pacific Rice Cook Book with 200 recipes by sending ten cents to S F Morse or J H Lathup.
Winter voyage to Havana via Southern Pacific ships Chalmette and Excelsior from New Orleans each Saturday. Forty eight hour trip with modern steamers. Send 4 cents for Havana booklet listing rates and Cuba description to Southern Pacific agents or J H Lothrop St Louis MO.
The Argonaut designed by Simon Lake sits in Bridgeport harbor awaiting a forthcoming demonstration. The craft aims to recover cargo believed worth up to 100 million dollars from wrecks off the coast from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras. The Philadelphia Record notes a cigar shaped hull with sealing hatchways, 24 water tanks, and a forward conning tower as components enabling deep dives and precise ballast control.
New manuscript volume on Montagu papers lists salaries around 1607 8 for lord treasurer chancellor of the exchequer lord high treasurer and lord chancellor with detailed pay for robes wine clothes and odd sums plus long lists of court offices and staff including surgeons apothecaries and pantry departments in London records.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer contrasts a nation that punishes its rascals with one that punishes its reputation, noting Washington Post commentary on how national actions shape abroad perception. The exchange highlights irony in collective national image and behavior.
A quoted exchange turns around a man who tries to kiss a girl and ends with a wry remark about sewing. The brief dialogue foregrounds a humorous misstep and a play on words.
An Abie Sing performs to praise for supporting her family through singing. The Philadelphia Bulletin notes her ability to carry her voice and sustain fame, highlighting the talent and practicality of her act in supporting her father, mother, and younger siblings.
The exchange features Mrs Rentem and the landlord detailing room dimensions with a humorous quip about swinging a cat to fit in the space. The dialogue captures a lighthearted civic exchange in Peltimore.
A Universalist Leader quotes applause for restraint and honesty and tells of a woman who hides plated spoons and curling irons in her trunk before shopping. She pins a gold watch to her dress with a blue ribbon and then goes downtown, displaying careful, cautious behavior.
A superintendent tests an applicant by asking how a woman should exit a street car, exposing bias with the wrong answer. A North Carolina report notes a man who attacked his wife with an axe and the wife’s sarcastic relief in escaping the accused. A household maid garbles a lie to callers, insisting on her limits.
A collage of curious items covers electric railways in Japan and Germany’s plowing, cattle exports yes to Japan and vast Russian mines, a five thousand dollar kerchief for the empress, Italy chestnuts, a giant sewing machine in Leeds, Brazil’s transport limits, a Maine farmer’s horse shoes, and a castle anecdote in Ireland with a punchline about misinterpreted orders and a blunt remark from a sociological student Among snippets a craftsman’s reply anchors a broader view of global oddities and human foibles.
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