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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1902
Page
6
For sale or trade notice offering a five room cottage on a corner lot and a store building. Interested buyers may exchange for a small well improved farm. Address C, No. 401 West Tenth, Sedalia, No. 213 dime.
Advertising copy touts Brilliant Gaslight Burners that fit any coal oil lamp, require no chimney or wick trimming, and claim smokeless light. It targets agents with promises of 200 percent profit and immediate income from private and public buildings, banks, churches, and homes. Sample free from Enterprise Manufacturing Co. Box 483 Cincinnati, Ohio.
Notice seeks women to apply at once by sending ads to X Y Z, Sentinel office. The brief advertisement offers work at one dollar daily.
A young man capable of office work and handling finances can invest 1590 dollars for a two-fifths share in a business expected to earn substantial profits. The ad invites interested readers to contact R. J. M. at the Sentinel office for details.
Wanted rooms with or without board near the Episcopal church. Address Room 122 Huckins hotel. 316 3tp.
Six room cottage on two large lots available for rent at a low price. Apply to J K Kidd in LeGrande.
Classified note describes a suitable home location for a small family at 1114 West Fourth Street, presenting the property as a favorable site for a decent family living.
An advertisement seeks a first class barber offering to be paid 75 cents on the dollar or to sell an interest in Plaza Barber Shop located at 105 West Third Street. Address or apply by March 16.
A seven room house on Twenty second and Ohio offers eight lots and a fine garden for rent at a cheap rate to the right party. Call or address Frank B. Hoar. 3-17 d3tp.
For sale an upright golden oak case piano and other household goods at 600 East Sixteenth Street. Cash only. Leaving city. Contact 3-18 3rd for details.
Two furnished rooms available for light housekeeping and a sleeping room. Inquiries at 309 East Second Street.
For rent three large rooms furnished for light housekeeping, usable together or separately. 218 West Fourth Street. 319 3tp
Notice to Sedalia voters that the school board seeks a 75 cent per $100 valuation tax rate to fund schools. The annual election on April 1, 1902, will decide whether to raise the levy while maintaining overall total school taxes. A. W. McKenzie serves as secretary of the board.
A detailed list of Missouri Pacific Railway passenger and freight movements. It covers local freights No.122 and No.197, numerous departures and arrivals including No.73 and No.71, and through services North South and East West. It notes baggage rules and yard starts, plus Franklin Junction and Sedalia routes.
Citizens are informed that prices will stay at 15 cents for a haircut and 10 cents for shaving with neck shaving free. The notice from Union Regulator at 111 Osage Street and Billy's Place at 110 Osage Street in Sedalia, Missouri, contrasts rivals charging extra after April 1 and on holidays.
Advert says a hay supplier in Huston has purchased 500 tons of prairie hay and will contract with buyers to supply any quantity at current market price, with delivery possible at any time.
Bargain ad promises a fine gold watch in exchange for rag bones old stoves rubbers bottles zinc iron and more. Junk wagons collect all kinds of material from homes aided by two telephone numbers 1000 and 263 in Sedalia.
The colored evangelist Peter Vinegar declares that anyone who says they are not afraid to die is lying. He warns death is feared by all, even by him, and describes facing death as the moment fear is most evident.
Beginning April 1 the union barber shops will charge an extra five cents for neck shaving. This adjustment outlines the new surcharge in the local barber trade updates.
J. S. Hincklin of Saline County Missouri led the beef cattle sale with a lot of 15 head averaging 1148 pounds selling at 6.40 per hundredweight. His consignment also included cows at 3.60 to 4.00, heifers 4.00 to 5.00, and stags 4.00 to 5.00. Hincklin is a well known Saline stockman who raises feeds and ships top grades.
Washington reports since the Boer War began England has purchased 82,427 horses and 95,460 mules in the United States and shipped them to South Africa at a total cost of 24,887,104 dollars averaging 139 dollars per animal. The U S government paid about 89 dollars per horse or mule on average in the past four years.
A classroom exchange asks what makes the Easter season notable. The reply identifies it as the only time of year when hens lay colored eggs.
Coughs and lung troubles are claimed to be rapidly cured by One Minute Cough Cure. The ad states it softens mucus, reduces inflammation, and provides immediate relief. Justice of the Peace J Q Hood of Crosby Mississippi and W E Bard Drug Co are cited as endorsers.
A brief exchange hints at genuine emotion during a proposal as one speaker muses whether the plea came from habit or from deep feeling. The other person suggests his heart showed in his expression, implying sincerity in the moment.
W. W. Umbarger of Marshall Missouri writes that Foley's Honey and Tar is the best cough cure on the market and useful for both young and old, especially children, saying his family never is without it.
A guest recalls today’s service as charming with a dazzling display of bonnets. The scene featured many elegant hats, drawing attention and compliments from attendees.
A garbled excerpt shows a spoken exchange about dogs and hierarchy. The line includes Jasper and Jumpuppe characters debating dominance with a narrator comment predicting an opportunistic outsider. The fragmentary OCR yields no clear news context or event.
Mrs Frances L Sales of Missouri Valley Iowa says she suffered kidney trouble for years. After trying five doctors she used three bottles of FOLEYS KIDNEY CURE and recovered.
Property offers a blacksmith shop for sale or rent with tools included or without. Inquiries directed to J. T. Mayfield of Dumpville Pettis county Missouri.
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