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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1903
Page
7
A New York broker fond of flowers tests his staff in a comic scene as he orders his English coachman to fill a watering can while the hostler retrieves water and a lengthy dignity test leads to the coachman remaining on duty for hours. Apache tribe members extend an adoption degree to two men in a Wigwam meeting.
A Kansas City Journal anecdote recalls a Cincinnati to Chicago trip where two strangers fail to learn each other’s names. After a three hour chat the pair swap identities, joke about recognition, and end with drinks as they admit they remain strangers.
Mr F L Ludemann recently bought J E Hillis business and is back from a buying trip to St Louis and Chicago. He purchased a full line of car pets curtains and undertaking goods. The new stock will arrive in a few days. Mrs P Jones Atlanta reports paying over 500 for medicine with Rocky Mountain Tea restoring her health.
Public notice offers a convenient summer tour book by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway detailing routes and rates to Eastern resorts. It will be sent on application to F. R. Lacy in Kansas City and C. F. Daly in Chicago.
A prosperous retail butcher explains politeness costs him about 25 dollars a year. He says fashionable women expect a hat tip, grease stains hats, and in a month a derby becomes unwearable. He jokes he will be the hatter's best customer until warmer weather lets him go bareheaded.
Mr Workhard laments losing his job and lacking funds while Mrs Workhard hopes for grocery store credit. He says they must seek the poorhouse for dinner, noting they always paid cash and have no credit anywhere despite long dealings with grocers.
Quip from Philadelphia Ledger notes that the more character a man lacks the more society topens to dissect him. The exchange highlights social fixation on personality during the era.
With unexcelled facilities for handling all classes of laundry work the Monarch Laundry offers to the public a service that is modern and perfect in every detail. CHAS VAN ANTWERP, Prop. Phones 183.
Local advert touts a large stock in Central Missouri with first class work and material at low prices. It urges readers to place orders now to secure quantities and favorable pricing.
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