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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1905
Page
5
Local society column lists numerous residents and visitors in Sedalia. Individuals travel to Kansas City St Louis Jefferson City Boonville and Hamilton for visits business and church-related events. Names include Maud Mann Lucile Marshall Drucula Wideman and many others with patrons at Maywood hospital and various towns.
President Roosevelt spent twelve hours in Chicago where he was renominated twice by enthusiastic Democrats. Jacob M. Pickinson at the Iroquois Club dinner and Col. J. Hamilton Lewis delivered the second renomination with praise. The New York World notes the Democrats would pursue him even if he avoided a White House bid. Kroencke Cordes for S flour.
Fifth grade pupils from Northeast Broadway Franklin Summit Prospect districts present a recital at the High School auditorium starting at 3 30 in the afternoon. Sixth grade programs include songs from Prospect Broadway Summit and Southeast schools with arrangements by Miss Donnelly Longan Well Gold and the combined Shaffer Hauptly rooms.
An old notice touts Worrell's Insect Exterminator a 30 cent bottle for grass chiggers fleas bed bugs and ants. It claims the product is harmless when applied to beds furniture or carpets and can be bought at any drug store.
Joe B. Cousley former Sedalia resident and now chief clerk at Osawatomie Kansas Missouri Pacific railway office will marry next month to Ethel Poage of Nevada Missouri. Cousley’s parents live in Nevada and he is related to Sedalia schoolteacher Eunice Cousley. He previously worked for the M E T railway after Central Business College graduation and has many Sedalia friends.
The notice warns that hot weather and bad drinking water aggravate piles and suggests DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as a cure. It urges buyers to get the genuine product from W. E. Bard Drug Co, bearing E. C. DeWitt & Co.'s name.
A J A Snapp team ran loose on West Second Street striking three wagons before stopping. Ten year old Tommy Moore of Randolph Street fell from the wagon and suffered a crushed left foot with three toes mashed. He received medical help at Planck's implement house. Officer Fred Robertson halted the runaway on Kentucky Street.
Louis Irven, a resident near Calhoun with a clean reputation, was jailed in Henry county for stealing a fine horse from Jean Dodson two weeks earlier. Dodson had refused $125, Irven allegedly rode the horse to Independence Missouri and sold it to a Warrensburg liveryman for $40. The horse changed hands five times and was nearly shipped to Memphis when a Kansas City detective located it. Irven was arrested minutes after returning home and identified by the Warrensburg liveryman and Holden horse buyer.
A Sedalia man reports back pain from daily strain eased by Doan's Kidney Pills after a short course from W. E. Bard Drug. The ad urges kidney health and notes 50 cent price with Foster Milburn as U S agents. Doan's is recommended by name.
Mrs. Mary Carpenter suffered a serious foot injury when she stepped on a rusted nail in her yard at 607 East Thirteenth Street. She was taken to Maywood hospital where Dr. W. B. Shirk performed surgery.
A force of city employees started removing illegal or unsightly bill boards across the city this morning in a drive to clean up the streets. The effort targets long-standing eye sores and aims to improve the urban landscape.
The local camp of the Confederate Veterans and Daughters of the Confederacy met Monday night at Hon. W. D. Steele's office and chose Miss Ethel Collins as sponsor. Aussie Holland and Linnie Camp were named maids of honor, with Lou Menefee and Kathryn Monroe as alternates for the Louisville encampment next month. Wage scales cited for area shops at 65 cents per hour, while contractors offered cents per hour. Workers faced muddy conditions at the shops, with a pause in progress and some reluctance to continue.
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Word on the street says Bricklayers Union No 14 met at Tillberry’s hall last night and planned a strike for higher wages. Today the bricklayers at...
Chiefs DeBold H H Edwards and John Kaiser Jr with James Card depart at midnight for Jefferson City as delegates from Apache and Wichita tribes to attend the Improved Order of Red Men council event.
Rev E A Neville John E Tiedeman O E Parsons D H Smith and J W Mellor depart Sedalia to represent the parish at the diocesan council in Kansas City. Women delegates D H Smith and Sarah Dexter join from Calvary parish for the ladies meeting as Grace church hosts the convening.
In police court Tim Healy was arraigned for drunkenness and fined $10. Fred Myers faced a vagrancy charge and paid a $20 fine. Pauline Terrell arraigned on lewd conduct was fined $100 and ordered to leave town after being unable to pay.
Dr W S Manley operates as a veterinary surgeon from J W Whelan's Livery Stable located at 320 West Second Street. Office phone 93. Residence phone 850.
A playful promotional line suggests if a dealer drank the ginger ale he sold he would purchase Crawford's Royal Ginger Ale. It frames the product as superior and desirable through humorous conditional logic.
Notice to stockholders announces annual meeting at the company's office Fourth and Lamine streets on Monday May 29 1905 at 9 o'clock for election of directors and other business. C F Kibby president G H Scruton secretary.
Miss Julia Sullivan closes a successful Prairie Grove term with recitations dialogues and songs by pupils. A noon basket dinner was served to pupils and patrons during the program.
The social committee of Q council Knights and Ladies ity held a meeting last night at their hall. Dr McBride and others were initiated as new members amid discussions for membership.
The Second Regiment prepares a Sunday march to Warrensburg with a public wood park event announced for the day.
In the city, A. W. Lloyd of the Colored Knights of P. organizes a local chapter. Members gather to discuss plans for community service, fraternal activities, and recruitment.
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