Weather Forecast Foresees Rain and Warmer Weekend
Friday March 22 1901 warns rain late tonight and Saturday with warmer temperatures tonight.
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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1901
Page
8
Friday March 22 1901 warns rain late tonight and Saturday with warmer temperatures tonight.
Judge MacMahon heard the stories of two 17 year old girls married at city hall within months who were sold and kept in a disreputable house by their husbands. Mandel Schneiderman, a barber, is a fugitive. Louis Greenburg is on trial for abduction. The girls escaped and the raid led to the proprietress's prison term.
Mary Reice four years old was accidentally shot in the forehead by her father in Macon Missouri on March 22. The father believed the rifle unloaded when he joked about shooting her. The bullet lodged in the head and doctors fear she cannot survive. The family lived in Bevier and were visiting relatives two miles west of town.
Mr Louis Strause of New York plans to install a top telephone system at Versailles enabling city long distance connections. The project includes pole infrastructure extending toward the city and promises improved communications.
Mr. Strause, a New York capitalist who has gained control of the Stover Coal Bank property, plans to employ many workers soon. He has already opened one of the finest meat markets in Versailles, boosting local commerce.
A young narrator shows off his new watch at the St Louis Clothing Co. to a crowd of admiring boys. He declares I got it with my suit and exclaims with pride.
Five thousand acres in Santa Clara county are planted with sweet pease for decorating San Jose ahead of President McKinley s May visit. Many flowers are up and fields wave a welcome to the nation s executive. About fifty tons of pease will be used along with carloads of roses carnations other flowers tropical plants and evergreens.
Choicest meats in town announced by Joe Paradis listing mutton pork chops honey cured bacon and rice with Scotch roll corned beef. Also Junior Society program at High school this afternoon features Recitations Elizabeth Roley Mann Hall readings Grace Brown readings Mary McGinley and a book review by Lou Stotis with music by the Society quartet including J Ken Berry H Scott W Dixon Will Ammon and a piano solo by Lou Menefee.
The Kansas City Journal reports Sedalia desires at least $100,000 from the assembly for the State fair, noting a $50,000 appropriation falls short given the circumstances and the city’s expectation of larger support.
Elmer E. Hargett and his wife from Enid left Thursday for Hughesville in Pettis county where Mrs. Hargett will stay with her parents for several days. Afterward Mr. Hargett will tour various regions for several days.
Our fountain is the only one in the city that is running, highlighting Arlington Pharmacy as the labeled source and point of note.
In Newport Kentucky controversy over the Twentieth Century Cookbook used by church women led to a division after pastor Rev Chandler condemned recipes calling for liquor. He demanded marking or halting sale of 3000 copies, while printers and union workers face a related strike plan and broader labor tensions.
Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 will hold a special Sunday meeting to consider the growing pressmen strike in the offices of the Chicago Daily Newspaper association. The action signals possible union involvement amid labor unrest in the city’s newspaper industry.
Dr McFarland notes Mrs Homer Davis of Ballard delivered triplets two boys and a girl on the 13th. Total weight 17 pounds. Mother and babies doing well. This is his first triplet case in 24 years. Clinton Democrat. Crescent paint and City Drug also mentioned.
The Sedalia rifles held their regular monthly drill and ball on Thursday night. Loren E. Holland won the Bankers' Gold medal for the top drill performance. Gregg's orchestra provided music for dancing after the event.
A fragment notes a whiskey product or tasting at a location 112 Osage. Details are sparse with limited readable names and no clear event or date.
The High School Debating Society voted to form a senate for parliamentary practice. Members showed enthusiasm to represent their favorite state. The first assembly meeting is scheduled for next Thursday with high anticipation.
Two steel ranges offered as bargains along with other household furniture and stoves at low prices by HELFERT and RAIFFEISSEN located at 118 West Main Street.
Antone E. Ehlers, a Morgan County resident and G. A. R. veteran, was arrested on pension fraud charges. He is described as an elderly, prominent local figure with a long-standing reputation for honesty.
Dr J P Durrett of Otterville Mo was reported missing to St Louis police by his wife. Beth phones 120. Meats presspily delivered to all pars of fe fowa. Clean careful polite service guaranteed. Jos Paradis Market house.
A classified notice promises cash for old rags iron brass zinc bottles and bones. The firm offers to collect junk from any city area and claims to pay the highest market price.
Reading scraps show a note about Webster Davis giving a lecture in Windsor on Friday night March 29. The fragment also mentions a person named Kautzman connected with paints and oil and notes a man resting while drunk after a protracted spree.
C F Walch's Boston cafe advertises manufacture and sale of confections bread Puritan biscuits fancy cakes ice cream and water ices for wholesale and retail customers.
The Rowletta nine and the Houstonia nine opened the baseball season with a close game last Saturday. Houstonia finally yielded, losing 12 to 13 in a competitive matchup at the arena.
A casual remark about buying drugs leads to a reply naming the Arlington Pharmacy, highlighting a brief exchange and the store involved.
The Senior society met at the High school this afternoon and held a program with music by Jessie Turner recitations by Nora Wells and Mabel Bolton a talk by the sponsor and a debate on the resolution that a woman's intellect is equal to a man's. The affirmative team was Russell Pirkey and Reuben Gentry and the negative team was Harry Weiss and George Brownfield.
Miss Julia Laystrum hosted eight couples for a crokinole party last evening. Carrie David won the first prize a statuary piece while Ed Metcalf took the booby prize a tin drum. Refreshments were served.
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