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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1902
Page
8
Sedalia Lodge No. 232 A F and A M will hold a special communication Thursday evening March 27 at 7 30 for work in the E A degree All Masons invited E E CODDING W M F A SAMPSON Secretary
The birthday party program at Hurley's hall Monday evening features a cornet and piano duet by Mr Charles Roha and Miss Rast, solos by Miss Ida Meers and Miss Etta Hurley, piano solos by Miss Nellie Donnely and Miss Mary Curran, a vocal solo by Miss Kittie Allen, a piano duet by Miss Curran and Miss Hurley, and a solo by Charles O'Connor.
The Sedalia city voters are notified that the board of directors proposes raising the annual school tax to 75 cents per $100 valuation. The April 1, 1902 election will decide the increase, with total levies matching recent years due to the board’s estimate for interest and sinking funds. A. W. McKenzie, secretary.
Hill's Practical Business College has organized a baseball club for the season and will open with a game at Marshall on April 12. Players include Slagle Lewis Edwards Amick King Hoover Griggs Reichel Jump If Lewis If Linaberry and more. M. M. Stevenson offers fresh spring lamb mint and celery for Easter dinners with order via telephone 62 Market house.
Mrs. Mary A. Marvin died this morning at her home 422 East Sixteenth Street of bowel trouble. She lived alone and was affectionately known as Grandma Marvin. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed.
The store advertises a grand Central Missouri sale of washable dresses shirt waists and fabrics. Featuring Silk warp Lappets Mulls Swisses Dotted Swisses Embroideries and Mercerized Chambrays with prices starting and extending across white goods and new trimmings laces and embroideries bought from New York. Readily available beadings and fringes with a wide selection at popular prices.
Big sale offers Bryant and Cannon corsets with Bryant price points and Cannon alternatives. Styles include 1007 and 240 with prices ranging from 1.50 to 3.50, plus FF and J B corsets in limited styles and prices. Details emphasize large stock and discount options for P D corsets.
Fragmentary auction text lists Lot 2 and Lot 9 with unclear lot codes and prices. Limited readable details show a small, unspecified sale item set and no clear buyer or location.
The article notes a prize pool of 15 000 and lists several Seca lians expected to go including A B Dempsey John Linaberry Warren Kerr Frank Raymond George Mc Clure and L S Eddins. It mentions the first charter for railroad construction in 1819 granted to Henry Drinker by the Pennsylvania legislature for a road of that era.
A fragment notes mercerized sateen fabric with three small ruffles and no crinoline at the bottom. Indicates warranted worth one dollar twenty five cents. Re A EMT.
The text notes an old charter and its rights were purchased by the Delaware and Lackawanna Company for $1,000, with waggons then to be moved by horse power rather than steam.
A note from the Parsons Sun indicates items removed from mail cars were transferred to other trains or taken to the post office, outlining the ownership and handling of the pilfered mail pieces.
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