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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1906
Page
6
W E Bard Drug Co champions Miona stomach tablets promising digestion aid and disease prevention with a money back guarantee. Take one tablet before meals and expect to improve digestion and appetite and long life through stronger stomach function. Large box priced at five cents or fifty cents, depending on size.
Kent Martin of Chanute and visitors from Lamontie and Lamonte share social calls in Sedalia. Residents travel to Parsons Kansas City St Louis and Clifton City for business while others visit family. May 10 1906 notice includes bids for Kentucky avenue paving needing bonds and city council bidding details.
Smithton residents are noted in a May village roundup. John Harris was at home between trains. Mrs. Z V Wakefield returned to St Louis after visiting her parents F L Wright and wife. W T Ellison and wife visited from Sedalia. Rex Wright visited from Kansas City. August Selken resumed work as mail weigh er after a layoff. Vina Wakefield becomes cashier at Gray Summit bank. R Warbritton announces a May 12 sale of personal property. The funeral of William Townsend from Chicago was interred in Smithton Cemetery.
Sedalia City Council resolves to grade and pave the portion of Lamine Avenue from Broadway to Fourteenth Street with vitrified brick on concrete base 24 feet wide. Costs to be included in special assessments. Publication set in Sedalia weekly and evening newspapers. Passed May 7 1906.
Market figures show hogs and cattle steady with Chicago and Kansas City trades cited. An ordinance passed April 15 1906 in Sedalia Missouri condemns private property for widening Massachusetts Avenue from Broadway to Thirteenth Street with damages and benefits assessed to abutting land.
Walter Dalby joins Missouri Pacific shops while Paul Treasway returns from St Louis. Engines 419 and 2395 closed out after overhauls. J W MecClain and C D King travel for work. H L White and C Y Lawrence active in express and local service. Car 482 headed to St Louis for overhaul. Trainmaster Fowler visits Clinton. Special train arrives amid fire fighting coverage. Jerry Heanan reports new evidence in Harry Stafford case.
Market page lists prices for grain and forage including wheat per bushel at 85 cents, prairie hay baled per ton 9 to 10 dollars, and timothy hay baled per ton 12 dollars, with oats and bran shown in cwt units.
A historical market listing shows prices for butter lard potatoes corn meal sorghum and various flours by unit. It also lists spring chickens hens geese ducks and turkeys with per unit prices and weights.
An ordinance defining the benefit district under Ordinance Number 672 titled An Ordinance providing for the widening of Massachusetts avenue from the west building line to the north line of lot 10 in block 1 of Hastings Ac.
A narrator lists bold western paper names such as the Kansas Cowboy, Cheyenne County Rustler, Sedalia Bazoo, Kansas Prairie Dog, Santa Fe Trail, and Springfield Soap Box, contrasting them with eastern journals like the Journal and Times. The vignette notes varied dramatic titles and playful newspaper branding.
S. J. Dudley visited Sedalia on Wednesday. Ewing Cockrell of Warrensburg came Saturday to discuss next year’s telephone business with local farmers.
Bo real Daniel Donahee is having a well deslied at Spring Fork. Dr Guthrie, wife and family, of Mora, spent last Sunday with G H Rider and family. Charles Frisbie and wife made a business trip to Mora Monday morn ing.
A local store in Arlington touts Foley’s Honey and Tar as highly satisfactory saying many customers have used it with great results. The remark emphasizes strong consumer approval from the Arlington Pharmacy.
In Cole Camp on Monday many locals gathered for an opera house entertainment by Sedalia guests Miss Alice Brown violinist Miss Fay Brown pianist and Mrs. Besse Gearhart Morrison elocutionist. The audience applauded each number and encouraged future shows.
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