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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1902
Page
4
The Sentinel names Charles Leftwich as a candidate in the upcoming election, noting his formal authorization to run and presenting the announcement in its standard public notices style.
Assessor Frank Monroe. Aldermen First ward H. W. Menschke Second ward Edward Sta ton Third ward W. J. Letts Fourth ward P. G. Stafford. Board of Education T. W. Bast and Charles Hoffman.
The Burlington Route advertises low one way colonist rates for March and April 1902 to Portland Tacoma Seattle Puget Sound, Spokane and Butte Helena districts from Kansas City. It details fast Denver trains via Billings and through service to St Paul and Minneapolis, with invitations to consult agents for exact intermediate rates and free descriptive material.
Fresh meat costs climb to spring highs as beef cattle appear drained from the country. The Sentinel notes continued pressure on prices and urges readers to check the want column for related listings.
The Argonaut submarine now in Bridgeport Connecticut will soon demonstrate its operation. The craft carries a potential treasure recovery mission estimated at 102 million dollars as it nears action. Its design includes sealed hull hatchways 24 water tanks and adjustable ballast to reach depth with precise balance. The conning tower houses steering gear and is placed forward of midship.
A volume from the historian manuscripts commission details salaries for England’s public offices around 1107 8. It lists Lord Treasurer £365 plus 15 for livery, Chancellor £26 plus 12 for livery, First Lord of the Treasury £5 000 and Chancellor £5 000, Lord Chancellor’s daily fee 23s plus £200 attendance in star chamber, £300 annuity, £41 clothes, two tuns of wine, and £0 72 from elsewhere. Also Lord Chief Justice £248, admiral £133 plus food £200, clerk of the storehouse £32 13s 4d, surgeons £40 each, physicians £100 each, apothecaries £2 13s 4d each, and full staffs for numerous royal departments.
In Newgate street London near Old Bailey laborers digging a trench for a telephone conduit unearthed a human tooth a shin bone and a skull with a rusty iron ring and two long shackles. Major Arthur Griffiths notes bodies of murderers were hung in chains or buried under the gallows until 1832.
An anecdote from Chicago about Edward Everett Hale recounts a Boston visit where a German woman blocks a car seat with bundles. Hale assists the burdened woman, then remarks to her, while omitting the reader’s companion, and the woman speculates Hale may someday write of the encounter.
A mother answers her son Willie's questions about milk and cows with a moral twist. Willie asks where cows get milk and tears and whether cows must be spanked, prompting a brief, childlike exchange in the home.
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