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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1902
Page
3
Sentinel Publishing Company advertises itself as proprietors of a newspaper printed every evening except Saturday and Sunday with a Sunday morning edition. Office located in the Equitable Building at the corner of Fourth and Lamine Streets. Phones Bell and Q. C. No. 260.
The Sentinel announces Lawyer H. K. Beate as a candidate for Pettis county prosecuting attorney, subject to the Democratic party will. The name James Montgomery is also presented as a candidate for the nomination, subject to Democrats of Pettis county choice.
Announcement states Judge O. E. Parsons seeks re nomination for Probate Judge of Pettis County, pending Democratic convention action on August 11, 1902.
W L Cress is announced as a candidate for Judge of the Western District of Pettis county, subject to the Democratic County Convention action. The report notes the party backing and the expected convention process.
The article announces Judge N. H. Rogers as a candidate for re nomination as justice of the peace for Sedalia township, pending the decision of the Republican party.
James C. Connor is announced as a candidate for constable of Sedalia township, pending Democratic Party action. Charles Leftwich is announced as a candidate for constable of Scalia township, subject to the will of the Democratic Party.
A local notice announces a big monument sale for Decoration Day at Heynens on North Ohio Street. Readership is invited to view and purchase memorial stone markers and related commemorative items. Proceeds benefit the associated cemetery fund and local veterans group.
A Sedalia based fortune teller, Prof Duncan, offers past present and future readings to help in business and love. He invites consultations at 135 East Cooper Street.
Buy the latest improved bicycle Hoffman Special the simplest and best constructed wheel made. See them at P. Hoffman's.
Advertising copy promotes Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product in a large 2 oz package priced at 5 cents, claiming it yields beautiful bright whites for wash day.
A Washington Star sketch imagines an official in the House and Senate acting as a city editor for the Congressional Record. It shows Senator Dash taunting Senator Blank and a dramatic reply that would enliven rural districts with vivid, spicy prose.
A writer notes Irish churchyards with ivy walls and crumbling borders. Headstones remain simple and uniform though epitaphs fade and moss clings. Many stones slant, uneven mounds mark crowded graves, yet the peasantry keep silent, tender memories of the dead.
A dramatic fragment contrasts a pleading lover asking assurance from a woman with memory of his words. The piece shifts to a brisk slice of daily life in Chicago and New York as a worker hurries through a wage driven day. It ends noting the day’s end and the fading light.
The London Builder notes manufacturers produce marble-like material by permeating soft limestone with coloring matters. The process yields a polished veneer with deep color and markings, costing about one third the price of genuine marble.
Seven men circle a rope bound man as a colonel arrives. They debate motives for theft with planning to hang the thief. The colonel offers a motive: the thief stole to have a horse to ride, a suggestion that ends the discussion.
Poem vivid with sunrise imagery in a quiet village. Hattie Whitney evokes transforming houses into ruby castles, violet winds, and barns turned to carmine fire as dawn sweeps chimneys and snow. A lyrical scene from Youth's Companion.
A series of poem fragments recounts fear of social judgment and doubt in love and ambition. The speaker defends effort against mockery, while other verses reflect seasonal imagery of flowers, spring, and wind, and the Washington Star notes seasonal welcome of the South Wind.
A lyrical meditation on the cyclical change of seasons life and death. The speaker questions the soul about spiritual attainment through God and divine grace asking for guidance and steadfast faith amid seasons of suffering and hope.
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