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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1905
Page
8
A Missouri Pacific machinist at the round house attempted to move a large locomotive but could not stop it. It rolled back into the turntable pit, requiring the wrecker to be canceled. The worker was unharmed and resigned before being told to quit.
M. W. Cadie returns from Winnipeg Manitoba as assistant grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Tim Healey, a crusher laborer for Katynai Sweeney in Missouri, admitted to company hospital for treatment. Pete Prezino a Mexican extra gang laborer for Katy dies at Parsons Kansas hospital. John Letts, Santa Fe office stenographer in Kansas City, visits parents. F T Cooner Missouri Pacific machinist injures right hand ending his work week.
Thomas Reedy and Clay Parker were arraigned before Police Magistrate Truxel on intoxication charges after last night’s arrests by Officers Wood and Card. Reedy fined $5 plus costs and Parker $10 plus costs. Parker resisted during arrest and caused trouble before jail.
Try us and your laundry will be a source of joy. We do no bungling jobs. Our work is a credit to ourselves and sure to please you if you once give us a trial. Phare 154 LONGAN'S STEAM LAUNDRY.
Several score of Missouri bankers and financiers gathered in Kansas City for the Missouri Bankers' association annual meeting. The two day session opens with discussions on timely financial topics and ends with the usual reports.
Daily commodity pricing lists show July wheat around 885 and 883, plus September at 89 and 47 for corn, with oats near 29 percent. Hog prices range from 5.20 to 5.55 for mixed to light and heavy, with regional notes for Chicago, East St. Louis, Omaha, Kansas City, and initial hog estimates for Chicago on Wednesday at about 21,000 head.
A fragment lists prairie hay and various cereals with per ton or per cwt prices, plus corn, flour, butter, eggs, lard, potatoes, corn meal, sorghum, and poultry items with scattered unit prices. The text is incomplete and includes illegible or garbled entries.
A New York Sun correspondent reports on Russian landowner Rachatnikoff fostering a beauty seed with dozens of men and women, producing over 100 children and planned weddings. Separately, Missouri official Col. William H. Phelps was fined $50 for ignoring a grand jury subpoena.
The annual Episcopal diocese council in Kansas City endorsed a boys school, with a committee to visit and support the school. Rev. Dr. E P Chittenden praised the interest and planned to attend St Louis diocese council next. Clergymen and laymen from Kansas City Sedalia Springfield Joplin Carthage and Sedalia joined the endorsement.
A clean house is assured if you send your crains bedspreads quilts blankets and comforts to Monarch Laundry operated by Chas Van Antwerp. Contact both phones 183 to inquire about family washing and related services.
In Bridgeport Connecticut a 19 year old hospitalized patient William Craw astonishes surgeons with premonitory dreams. He recounts a dream of his mother’s face and a later death at exactly ten o clock the night she died. He also recalls dreaming of his own injury before an earlier accident.
Miss Martha Letts hosted graduates faculty and Superintendent G V Buchanan at her Fifth and Engineer home. The event featured progressive games with Elizabeth Yost winning the girls prize a gold shirt waist button and Waller Dalby taking the boys prize a scarf pin. Decorations used cut flowers and refreshments included ice cream strawberries and cake.
Reunion attendees from Louisville will sell round trips on June 1, 11, 12 and 13 with a return limit set for July 10. The advertisement invites veterans to visit old Kentucky and take advantage of the travel option.
Parishioners of St. Patrick's church circulate a petition to Bishop Lillis asking that Father Healy, recently transferred from Sedalia to Springfield Missouri, be allowed to remain at Sedalia.
In circuit court today the divorce case of E. W. Doherty and Rosa Doherty was continued generally.
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