This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1904
Page
6
A parable about gossip in a female social circle where women attack each other behind backs. One woman remains unscathed by avoiding talk by arriving first and leaving last, teaching that presence curbs rumors. The tale ends with a moral praising visibility over virtue.
Central Office detectives arrest General Samuel Pearson of Scranton and Cornelius W. Van der Hoogt, foreign correspondent, at the Everett House on charges of suspicion of blackmail. Webster Davis, former assistant secretary of the interior, accuses Pearson of drafting threatening letters and seeks an accounting of Boer war funds. Bail set at 1500 each for hearing.
Dr J S Leslie, graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, offers a full line of instruments and veterinary care at 401 W Main Sedalia. Specialties include dentistry and obstetrics with prompt day or night service.
A compact miscellany of ads selling Sweet Springs Water at $1.50 a case by Arlington Pharmacy and promoting Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea from W. E. Bard Drug Company with claims of enhancing life’s pleasures and business.
An advertisement touts Longan's Steam Laundry and offers a $50 000 loan on Sedalia real estate via Sedalia Trust Company. It urges customers to select laundry that reflects credit when wearing collars cuffs or shirts, promising unmatched quality and flawless linen.
Saturday May 21 travel to St. Louis with all trains at five dollar fare for five days. Children under twelve pay two dollars and eighty five cents. Call for latest sundae specials at Farris'.
Sewing girls sought at once by Miss Bowles near Cannon's. A young man seeks inside or collecting work, contact E. A. at the Sentinel. Laundry workers needed at Sedalia Steam Laundry on Lamine street. A first class sober barber is wanted at 105 West Third Street with salary or partnership offered.
A Christmas 1903 umbrella engraved with G H S is lost. Finder will be rewarded. Return to the Sentinel office.
FOR SALE-Right, a good rubber tired runabout. See Whelan & Rector. FOR SALE OR RENT-A Remington Typewriter. Address A. B., care Sentinel.
Real estate notice invites inquiries to subdivide a forty acre property into five and ten acre lots located about one mile south of the new railroad shops and half a mile south of East Sixteenth Street. Sale offers any residence furnished or unfurnished with ten acres of fruit growth. Contact Van B. Wisker Sedalia Mo. Also listings include a 45 by 120 foot lot on Moniteau Street, 32 acres suitable for chicken ranch, and an 80 acre farm with three room house orchard 400 trees and 4 acres in strawberries. D S Collins.
C C Lawson attorney at law offers money to loan. Office is in rooms 10 8 9 Katy building. Phone number 467 provided for inquiries.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.