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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1902
Page
2
Sedalia residents anticipate a Saturday night event drawing many husbands not on salary to attend and "get next." A German celebration proceeds despite possible weather. a bass fish sale at St. Louis Market is set for tomorrow at 10 cents per pound.
Farmer seeks exchange of a forty acre farm located one mile from Hutton Valley Missouri for a cottage in Sedalia. Respond to this office with J. L. as reference. Also advertised are low rate excursions to Washington New York and Boston via Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway. Chicago to Washington round trip priced at 15.85 dollars with sale Oct 3 to 6 and return by Oct 14 with extension to Nov 3. Step overs allowed.
For the Winter The Palace of Illusions at 206 A presents a strictly high class resort for Sedalia families.
October brings crops and travel as Missouri farmers plan harvests and land buyers visit G. B. Norton farm. Residents from Seattle to Carthage arrive for visits. Maplewood hosts Old Folks Day on Oct. 12 with a teacher committee arranging a speaker.
The Huffman brothers from Illinois attempted to buy the W. D. Norton tract, but Norton declines to sell. The pair wish to relocate together in Missouri. A local farmer ties his watchdog in the orchard at night and checks the dog’s bark with a gun. Rural Free Delivery No. 4 begins today and will continue.
John Harris of Smithton serves as the mail carrier, delivering the daily mail on all days except Sunday.
The Michigan station reports an accidental development in sugar beet seeding that may yield a new method valuable to growers. Trials in 1900 1901 show small seed crops and beets with promising sugar content, including fall seeding tests that produced large beets and average sugar yields near 10.77 percent and suggest broader experimentation to ease field work and crop care.
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription as a cure for womanly diseases claiming it regularizes and heals. It shares a testimonial from Mrs Armintie Watkins of Acme Kanawha County WV and notes a bonus offer: The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser free with stamps for mailing.
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