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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1903
Page
5
Joseph Maupin visits Sedalia to see sister Mrs. M H Morris. Louise Conway begins a year long stay in Eldorado Springs. Numerous local residents and travelers are listed visiting relatives and returning home, including Edward and Mrs. Edwards, Ollie Jordan, Will Conway, and Anna Watts gathering at a party with many guests. Also ads for Rocky Mountain Tea and Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders target mothers.
Army officials refuse to move a private leper from Tybee where he is isolated in a cage. Medical officers say leprosy is not highly contagious and no hospital can accept him, leaving the case at Tybee under military care and quarantine.
London society buzzes over Princess Hatzfeldt adoptive daughter of C P Huntington of California at a London ball. Her outfit featured a jeweled headdress and striking sandals with rings on each toe. Irish quadrille dancer Miss Post led a graceful routine as guests admired the oriental gown and emerald accents. Other notes include local visits and social events on May 8 1903.
An early 20th century testimonial-style notice asserts that every seven days a man loses tissue unless digestion works, then promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Cure to enable digestion and blood rebuilding. It claims the product cures indigestion and stomach troubles and is sold by W. E. Bard Drug Co.
Central Missouri buyers urged to act for big stock sale at the N. E. Missouri Pacific Depot. Emphasizes first class work and material, quality and quantity, low prices, and a call to place orders quickly to raise funds.
Advertises for 100 laborers to lay track on the M K T line. Wages 1.50 dollars per day plus transportation. Board costs 50 cents daily. Apply at the Superintendent's office in Sedalia Missouri.
Vestibuled limited trains connect Buffalo Chicago and the West to New York with dining car service a la carte. Stowover allowed at Niagara Falls.
Caution against internal use of mercury based catarrh remedies and praise for Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. Promotes internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and warns buyers to seek genuine products. Hall’s Family Pills also recommended.
Porter Real Estate Co offers 196 to 292 acre farms and multiple houses around Sedalia Missouri. Properties include 169 acres west of Sedalia with a 5 room house, 50 acres near Sedalia with a non resident owner, and several 5 and 6 room houses on Lamine and Engineer streets. Prices range from $55 per acre to $1190 for a house, with easy terms and possible rental land. Call 494 Ohio Street for details.
A New York house invites literary manuscripts in all genres for publication. Liberal terms, no examination charge, prompt attention, and honorable treatment. Address Books, 141 Herald 23d Street, New York.
Advertises farm loans from 5 percent interest with partial payment privileges. Presented by J. H. Bothwell, attorney and counselor, Sedalia National Bank Building, Sedalia.
Advertises Red Cross Ball Blue for whitening clothes. Promotes a large two ounce package sold by grocers for five cents.
The annual officers report shows the debt on the grand has been cut to 2500 dollars, receipts for the past year rise by 400 dollars over last year, and expenses fall by 75 dollars.
Cord Fessenden is dangerously ill with heart trouble and his condition was alarming a few nights ago. He showed some improvement this morning.
Boies Bros. & Co offers numerous Kansas and Missouri land exchanges with Sedalia residences, a 15 acre orange lemon grove near San Diego, and farm properties in Kansas, Iowa, and Arkansas. Listings include 620 acres in Haskell County Kansas, 1280 acres Lanx County Kansas, 530 acres Ford County Kansas, 649 acres near Sylvia Kansas, and a Decatur County Iowa farm. Also a house store and stock of goods at Millerton Kansas for $1000 with optional 26 acres, plus Sedalia property for trade or cash.
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