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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1901
Page
5
A Chicago Tribune piece argues slow smoking improves flavor and life enjoyment. It warns nervous smokers burn tongues, cites habits from long practice, and notes two pipes at hand to avoid refiring. A brief aside mentions a Paris cable and a claim about reviving a worker shocked by live wires.
Sweet Running Water, daughter of a Kiowa warrior, is named the most beautiful Indian maiden in the Indian Territory. She bears no white ancestry, favors her own race, and has declined all marriage proposals from white men. She is engaged to a handsome Indian brave and lives near Chickasha. An open air Sedalia Horse Traders meeting led to a riot over a contested lot, with forty men arrested and fined eight dollars and thirty cents each, later remitted if spent on Hot Stuff Koal products.
A stream of brief items records visits and departures of residents and visitors around Windsor and neighboring towns. Ed Wood tours Holden, Henry Lamm attends a Jefferson City Supreme Court session, and many others travel to Kansas City, Guadalajara, or Marshall for business, society events, or family visits.
No word from Ellen M. Stone and the American missionary party as brigands hold them in the mountains. Ransom negotiations loom and authorities expect release once payment is arranged. Treasurer W. W. Peet awaits instructions and the gold likely weighs 300 to 400 pounds.
M. Darsonval a noted member of the French Academy of Sciences protests against executions by electricity arguing he can deliver safer methods and condemns the use of electrical capital punishment as inhumane and dangerous.
The Jefferson City Tribune notes residents buy thousands in groceries in St. Louis and Kansas City each year. It states about forty five grocers operate in Jefferson City, but only two advertise regularly locally and at most four advertise at all.
Tonight during the regular weekly review news of great importance will be announced and winter plans mapped. The degree team members will be selected and after the review the Oriental degree will be conferred on several candidates.
The New York Tribune notes American matches and watches gain popularity in remote regions, cheering the spread of American oil, liberty, and progress. It portrays the Yankee as lighting and enlightening and marking time for civilization.
Superintendent Bell of Clinton schools invites area superintendents to consider a league uniting high schools for encouragement and advancement of athletics in all departments. It clarifies the plan does not focus on football but broad athletic programs.
At a Democratic club gathering in Kansas City yesterday, Hearst of New York announced a representative will visit Monday to inspect the local paper in his interest.
Jefferson City Mo Oct 24 Judge James E Hazell granted the petition of the Jefferson City Press company for a receiver to take charge of its business appointing ex Governor Lon V Stephens The governor accepted and qualified M W Carroll ex chief clerk of the labor bureau will run the editorial department until affairs are straightened or wound up
Pauline Missouri October 23. Clara Landers from tiedeville visited her brother Pauline then traveled to see her sister Eva Renfrow near Green Ridge. A big show at the new school house Tuesday featured blindfolded egg dancing. Willie Calvert left for Minnesota to work in a barber shop this winter. W W O Bannon returned from Colorado where he and Herbert Reavis worked for Will Harris and fractured his collarbone in a runaway team. Nellie Whale visits her mother this week. Mrs Mertie Bebbs of Nodaway county visits her parents Mr and Mrs F W Hanes. A F Boles sold stock to W E Files who was buying at Pauline last Monday.
Walter Garrett, recently released from jail, is accused of fleecing Greenup Hall by trading a horse for a watch then taking it home to his mother. Hall reports the agreement and Walter's subsequent actions raise new allegations against him.
The sultan of Morocco’s palace is described as lavish yet uncomfortable with no fireplaces or proper drainage. Beautiful courtyards and rooms feature mosaics, carved wood ceilings, and delicate plaster arches, but draughts and damp tanks give the residence a chilly, secretive air.
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