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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1906
Page
3
Sedalia Aerie members met Thursday and formed a committee Frank Holdner R Dolph and Martin Busch to plan a social session after the next meeting in their Smith and Cotton building quarters.
P H Alexander, advance man for Parker Amusement, arrived Thursday to arrange the coming attraction in June under Eagles auspices.
Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blue. All grocers sell large two ounce package for 5 cents.
A Missouri Pacific engine led by Hostier George Young collided with Briggs & Butt ers bakers delivery wagon on Ohio street at about 6 15 p m. The wagon was damaged and the driver did not see the engine approaching in time to avert the crash.
The ad praises an inactive liver and urges periodic cleansing. It touts De Witt's Little Early Risers as reliable, effective, pleasant pills that never gripe, sold by W. E. Bard Drug Company.
Thursday evening brought the season’s largest crowd to the Liberty park hall skating rink. Managers O Donavan and Ogle were kept busy handling the rush of attendees.
The second annual meeting of the Tennessee Teachers Association opened in Jefferson City at Carson-Newman College. President R. H. Watkin s delivered the address as officers reported. Afternoon talks include History teaching methods and adolescence psychology. Evening session covers the educational value of the story and religious training in public schools. The convention holds two sessions Saturday and closes in the afternoon.
Officer Charles Jackson responded Thursday evening to Charles Fisher in East Sedalia to shoot a mad dog on the premises. The action concluded at the Fisher residence with the dog killed and no injuries reported.
An advertisement promises a safe monthly regulator for women’s ailments. It touts Mother Gray’s Australian Leaf as a certain cure for back pain urinary and kidney trouble with samples available free and a price of 450 cents by mail from The Mother Gray Co Le Roy New York.
Charles Blackman recently assistant electrician at the new Sedalia theatre started work as a lineman for Bell Telephone company, beginning his duties Thursday.
Trade directory notice lists multiple companies including Queen City Tea and Coffee Co Sedalia Grocery Co Sedalia Tea and Coffee Co M W Sweet Sons J R Williams Fratt and Son Sam Staples Barnett Bros W S Hand Co M Markle A W Widman and Clinton published by authority of Tre India and Ceylon Commissioner.
The ad claims Kodol relieves chronic indigestion by aiding digestion and improving digestive organ efficiency. It says the stomach acts as a boiler for vitality and that Kodol digests what you eat to relieve disorders and restore peak condition. Sold by W. E. Bard Drug Co.
San Francisco reports banks to reopen May 21 after citywide agreement. First building permit issued for a ten story Market street office near Kearny. Relief stations to deliver food on alternate days with Red Cross oversight. bread and milk lines remain long but shrinking.
Newport Rhode Island merchants lament the departure of New York plutocrats driven away by taxes. They blame meddlesome tax collectors for scaring away residents whose wealth funded the town’s prosperity, arguing officials must decide between taxing the rich or selling them groceries.
The War Department will issue each soldier a small four-ounce housewife containing buttons thread needles safety pins ordinary pins and possibly a tiny pair of scissors. The item is a practical kit component rather than a spouse replacement and is not intended to equal a marriage partner.
Washington reports Troop H of the Thirteenth cavalry at Fort Myer Virginia received a generous thank you after a charity fete for San Francisco sufferers. A leading Washington caterer supplied a luncheon of sandwiches ice cream and cake and a silver loving cup inscribed Bravely they rode and well.
Printing outfit installed at the Bank of England to print addresses on dividend notices. In future the notices will be printed rather than handwritten.
Toklemen, chosen to survey New Mexico and Arizona for Apache relocation, reports cool reception by Hot Springs and San Carlos officers and a 32,000 acre land shortfall. He notes younger members fear lifelong imprisonment and chiefs discuss granting tribal citizenship to allow land allotments. Meanwhile lake freights rise sharply, signaling strong regional trade and possible record vessel activity this year.
This week RC Dolph and Co The Cash Grocers advertise low prices on sugar beef tea and soap. Highlights include 5 lbs New Orleans sugar for 1.00 25 and 20 lbs granulated sugar for 1.00 Ficho soap bulk starch ginger snaps and Mitcher herring also offered. They tout Coban coffee Kellys Best flour and Egg-O-See with a promise of prompt delivery and phone service.
A vintage drug advertisement touts Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea as the best baby remedy. It claims to improve eating, sleeping, and growth for infants and lists price as 35 cents for tea or tab lets from W. E. Bard Drug Co.
Bert Wilson, long time extra fireman in this city, has joined the Talbot Fighting the Flames company and will depart tonight for Kansas City with the troupe.
The county names William Allen as the most fatherly, noting 24 children from two marriages. Meredith Walker is listed with 21 children, all by one mother, and William Greenwood with 20 children from a single wife. Elijah Dukes has 18 children with one mother, and many families reach 16 children.
Decorator H. Singer will begin work Saturday on decorations at the court house and the R. T. J. hall for the upcoming meeting of the great council of Red Men to be held here next week.
If you prefer to take medicine in tablet form you can now obtain Dr Shoop's Restorative Tablets. Absolute ly no change has been made in the medicinal ingredients. Sold by W. E. Bard Drug Co.
The Universalist church in North Orange New Jersey marks 125 years with a memorial meeting tonight. Rev. Charles Conklin of Boston will give a historical address as nineteen pastors have served the pulpit and ten former pastors plan to attend.
Members of the Women's Relief Corps held an ice cream and cake social Thursday afternoon at the R. T. J. hall. The event drew generous patronage and support.
Pettis county Democrats meet in voting precincts on Saturday May 12 to elect delegates to the county nominating convention in Sedalia on Monday May 14 1906. Sedalia precincts meet at 8 p.m. others at 2 p.m. J A Williams chair and E W Shultz secretary announced.
Hill's Business College baseball team faces Clarksburg this Saturday afternoon at Liberty Park. Local lineup includes pitcher P Priddy, Poundstone, Trotter, McFadden at first base, F Lafferty at second, E Priddy at short, Cook Lafferty in right, Redford, Bowman in left and other players noted.
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