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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1904
Page
6
A 1904 Sedalia resolution declares the city will grade and pave Engineer Street from the MK&T Railway right of way to Broadway with vitrified brick on concrete, width 32 feet from Fifth to Broadway and 30 feet elsewhere, excluding a preexisting paved section. The cost will be included in a special assessment, and the measure requires seven days of newspaper publication.
City of Sedalia Missouri invites bids for grading and paving Main street with vitrified brick on a concrete base from Washington avenue west to Grand avenue east excluding Ohio avenue intersection. Bids due May 16 1904 with 350 dollar certified check. council may reject all bids.
Constant growth attributed to excellent service and very low rates. Patrons express ongoing satisfaction with courteous treatment. Phone contact listed as 183. Chas. Van Antwerp is the proprietor.
August Guyot, farmer on Centerville station road, St Louis area, owns a three day old four headed male calf. Two heads attach at the neck and two on either side with minimal neck. Each head has two ears, two eyes, a tongue and teeth. Calf feeds from all heads. mother is Jersey and sire Holstein. Guyot loath to sell and plans to seek a World's Fair exhibition concession.
A Sedalia Missouri resolution orders curbing both sides of Engineer Street from the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway right of way to Broadway Street with concrete curbings. The plan excludes intersections with other streets and alleys and preserves existing curbing where adequate. Publication in the city newspaper for seven days follows approval.
Distinguished visitors from Kansas City, Missouri including Rev. Father P. J. O'Donnell and doctors Nathan O Harrelson and W J Ferguson tour Dublin hospitals. They aim to study Irish care to improve Kansas City and Missouri hospitals. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea promoted as a tonic. 35 cents. W E Bard Drug Co.
Clarence Lewis former Chicago Rock Island and Pacific fireman and soon to be ex police chief admitted deserting a wife and children in Kansas and marrying Virginia Morehead in Alliance Nebraska. He cited guilt and drinking as motives before turning himself in. Lewis’s first wife declined to press charges.
J. D. Hanna of Knob Noster traveled through the city last evening heading to St. Louis with six carloads of fine cattle bought from Ruffin and Kendrick at Green Ridge on Tuesday. A lighthearted note closes with a plug for Rocky Mountain Tea by W. E. Bard Drug Co.
Harry Smith has resigned his position as the delivery wagon driver for Letts' grocery store.
Advertisement seeking an experienced girl for general housework at 709 West Fifth Street. Inquiries invited for domestic help position in a private home.
PICKED UP One sorre horse, hind feet white, lame on left front. Owner may reclaim by paying board. Inquire J. G. Lynn 302 N Grand Ave. Call 620 North Grand Ave.
For sale dirt for filling purposes inquire of T H Johnson corner Main and Massachusetts streets. For sale a good ladies wheel cheap call at 610 West Sixth street.
Eight room house with modern conveniences for rent near West Broadway. Inquiries at 203 West Broadway.
For sale or rent a small house with three lots and a large barn in good condition. Inquiries directed to W. E. Hellen at 125 Ohio Street.
For sale a building lot wonderfully located for a cottage. Contact J. Frost Waddell at 110 Katie Building.
Suitably furnished rooms available for rent. Apply in person at 523 West Sixth Street.
Real estate notice invites conference to subdivide a finely located forty acres into five and ten acre parcels. The site is about one mile south of the railroad shops and half a mile south of East Sixteenth Street with options on a furnished or unfurnished residence and ten acres of fruit. Also for sale 32 acres suitable for chicken ranch, an 80 acre farm with a three room house, young orchard of 400 trees and 4 acres in strawberries near Moniteau Street between Fourteenth and Fifteenth.
A city resolution authorizes curbing the south side of Main street from Missouri avenue to Grand avenue and the north side from 295 feet west of Missouri avenue to Grand avenue in Sedalia Missouri. Plans and specifications will be filed with the City Clerk by the City Engineer and the curbing will be on a defined grade. Publication in the local newspaper for seven consecutive days is ordered. Approved by Mayor on the 2nd.
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