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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1899
Page
6
A bill passed by the house Saturday provides that each enlisted man and officer of the First through Fifth and 11th Missouri volunteer infantry mustered in 1894 shall receive one month’s pay. The payment covers the state’s full indebtedness to those volunteers.
Market list shows new wheat prices, oats, hay, corn chop, meal, flour wholesale, and live stock figures for cattle hogs sheep lambs calves at Sedalia. Also includes poultry prices and groceries like butter potatoes apples and sorghum. Grain O ad claims coffee substitute Grain-O invites readers to switch for digestion and nerve benefits. National Educational Association notes in Los Angeles and Rock Island Railway promotion with train route book by John Sebastian.
Sedalia High School sent four students J B Rosell Grantsburg St George Lamm Ash McNeil and Bert Sherer to Columbia for field day trials this week. They departed last night.
Ad touts De Witt s Witch Hazel Salve as a thorough antiseptic cure for piles ulcers sores cuts and skin diseases. Mentions Servant s Pharmacy and a mis-spelled line about Joan Hyatt and an employment move to Wisconsin with unclear details.
One of Sedalia's best known residents, A. KN Bridges, aged about ninety, is gravely ill at his South Missouri Avenue home. The note mentions De Witt's Little Early Risers as the famous remedy for liver irregularities, sold by Servant's Pharmacy.
Missouri Pacific runs a May 12 night special train to St Louis for 3.00 dollars with return validity on all regular trains through May 13 and morning of May 14. A 9:50 p.m. May 14 special from St Louis is listed. Excludes train No 7 sleepers. U S gunboat to be present. Baseball game St Louis versus Cincinnati on May 14. Sleeper cars not allowed.
A. T. Morris of Cincinnati advertises for a reliable man to manage a forthcoming branch. The notice requests reference to this paper. Includes prices for illustrated catalog and paper rolls from Dexter Book Store. The Catholic Benevolent society attended Sacred Heart services in a body yesterday morning.
Candy Palace advertises apples with a few left and mentions four or five gentle family horses for sale cheap at Steven's stable. A public notice asserts J. W. Washington, the West India Kid, has moved from the Alamo to the Metropolitan barber shop and his proposition remains standing.
Joe Simpson, former advertising manager of the Democrat, resigns to rest due to poor health as Mrs Simpson and children recover from measles. George S Anderson of Rossville, Penn., reports rheumatic trouble and endorses Chamberlain's Vamily Balm, praising its benefits for rheumatism and injuries. available from all druggists.
The Inter-Collegiate and Inter-State debate at Belleville Saturday night between the State University of Missouri and the State University of Wisconsin was won by Missouri. The municipal ownership of street railways was the subject of debate.
A reader attests Chamberlain's Pain Balm eased his son's rheumatism after severe swelling left him unable to walk. Other letters praise Chamberlain's remedies for diarrhea and colic. Reports mention DeWitt's products and a Beaman infant death linked to mental distress.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a blood cleansing candy aiding skin health. It promises clearer complexions by invigorating the liver and removing blemishes, with prices at 10 25 and 50 cents and a satisfaction guarantee from druggists.
A group including A Higdon Lee Lovinger Aaron Kingsbaker Joe Tuttle D A Higdon and Joe Cox will leave later this week for a week long fishing trip on Muddy River. They expect to spend the duration at the sport with preparations noted in local notices. DéWitt's Witch Hazel Salve advertised for piles scalds and burns appears in the same column.
A weekly Thursday evening train departs Kansas City at 6 40 PM and reaches Portland in 72 hours without a car change. The service promises maximum comfort at minimum cost, is suited for women and children traveling alone, and allows through travel to San Francisco or Los Angeles with a single change only in the middle of the day. Porters accompany each car and ticket offices list 1000 Main Street 1038 Union Avenue and Union Station. For details contact J. B. Frawley.
Travelers and homeseekers may ride through tourist sleepers to Butte Spokane Seattle and Puget Sound via the Burlington Route. Through sleepers depart Kansas City 10 40 a m on the Northwest Main Line Billings Route and are the only through sleeping cars for Kansas City to Montana and Washington. First class through sleepers also run daily Kansas City to Butte Anaconda commencing March 12.
The Northern Pacific corridor has been transformed with widened roadbed, heavier rails, steel bridges, brick lined tunnels, and grade reductions. Expending hundreds of thousands in 1898, the line promises safety and speed with new locomotives and through Pullman cars on the St. Paul to Portland route. Send Charles S. Fee six cents for WONDERLAND 99 to learn more.
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