Timetable Entries for Narrow Gauge Lines
The notice lists West Bound schedules for 8:30 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. South Bound trains run at 8:30 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. North Bound trains depart 12:45 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1900
Page
4
The notice lists West Bound schedules for 8:30 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. South Bound trains run at 8:30 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. North Bound trains depart 12:45 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
This morning at Higbee a coal miner named Thomas Bain was struck by loosened rocks while at work and died. The incident is described as a fatal mine accident with the rock fall causing the fatal head injury. Bard's advertising and tobacco remedies appear in the text.
In a Cleveland suburb a cultured housewife, aiming to repaint kitchen woodwork, uses a blue ready mix and her husband’s shaving brush. A comical disaster follows as the blue hue turns his face, prompting shared laughter and a lighthearted lesson in home chores.
Canton Ohio July 6 News of the Kansas City convention was given to President McKinley in bulletins read by Secretary Cortelyou. After the platform was adopted the president and Mrs McKinley took a long drive about the city with no sign of displeasure or surprise about the convention.
The Republican Notification Committee plans to notify President McKinley of his nomination on July 12 in Canton. Veterans of the Twenty third Ohio, Civil War survivors, are among those expected to attend, with Cleveland serving as the regiment's headquarters.
American Anti Imperialistic league executive committee notifies Indianapolis that the first national convention will be held August 15 and 16. Speeches will be given by Bourke Cochran Andrew Carnegie Carl Schurz Gov Boutwell Bishop Spalding and others. Delegates expected 1100. National secretary is William A. Mize.
Solomon Sloan argues that Liberty is an unattainable myth and that society should replace the Goddess of Liberty with a Goddess of Duty. He contends self government is limited and urges a nationwide symbol of duty in public life, currency, and work, as the highest ideal.
He asks if marriage would win his father in law’s forgiveness wealth and control. She offers assurances he would receive a house luxury income and a place in the firm. He coldly rejects the match saying the father wants to get her away.
A German visitor, early welcomed by Gibraltar officials, obtained an exception to top rock access, then used the chance to study all fortifications. Photos from his visit allegedly helped the German war office receive a detailed plan of Gibraltar's defenses.
A short humorous portrait describes a girl who remains calm and untroubled by the weather. She avoids fussing about heat drinks or lamenting fate and avoids ordinary town distractions.
A farmer tells of his son Tom who loves apples and outsmarts his father. The old man cuts the tree to punish the theft, but Tom slips away, then cleverly uses a jackknife to free himself as the tree falls. The tale ends with Tom safely perched on a limb.
A New Yorker now in the British army argues that Britons show fewer exceptionally keen eyes but more early eye decline than Americans. He cites soldiers in both forces, notes gray British skies reduce eye strain, and links American nervous temperament to optic weakness.
Advertisements in this column cost 25 cents for three issues if they contain no more than thirty words. The note outlines pricing and word limit for classified notices and small ads.
The Sentinel invites readers and businesses to get quick help or assistance by placing advertisements. The notice emphasizes fast responses and practical support for those seeking services.
The Monarch Laundry offers careful handling of blankets and quilts with excellent equipment. Careful housewives are urged to entrust this work to them with reasonable prices. Chas. Van Antwerp, proprietor. Telephone 183.
Help wanted notices seek an honest man of good character to deliver and collect for a long established manufacturing wholesale house in Missouri. $960 yearly pay, sure. Reference from any bank. Enclose self addressed stamped envelope. Manufacturers third floor 334 Dearborn Chicago. Also wanted young women to train as nurses at the American School of Technique in Scranton Pennsylvania offering valuable instructions for 25 cents.
An appeal invites a devout Christian man or woman to qualify for a permanent trust position. The role offers a $900 yearly stipend. Respondents should enclose a self addressed stamped envelope to the Secretary at the Sentinel.
Wanted. Salesmen to sell lubricating oils greases belting and specialties to threshermen on commission. Address giving references.
The notice offers a live representative position in Akron Ohio with pay from five to ten dollars a day. It promises rapid advancement and requires good references. Applicants left at Department K corner Perkins and Union streets Akron O.
Live agents earn 5 to 10 dollars daily by canvassing for the new book South America Social Industrial and Political. Subscriptions only, with liberal terms. Territory representatives needed immediately. Write The Saalfeld Publishing Company Akron Ohio for details.
Advertisement from the American School of Technique in Scranton Pennsylvania seeks young women to send 25 cents for instructions in trained nursing. It presents nursing as an honorable lucrative profession and urges immediate writing.
Cutting and fitting done to order at the Standard Dress Cutting Academy Room 304 O'Meara building For sale Art Garland hard coal base burner at 616 West Fifth Street Lost a Bryan fascinator of black wool probably on North Pacific La mine Osage Ohio or Sixth street or perhaps in East Sedalia Finder please return to Mrs Caroline Cole man 110 West Second street and claim reward
An editorial endorses Dr T P Mcluney as the ideal coroner, praising him as a gentleman in every sense and thoroughly deserving the office for good citizen leadership.
A New York passenger talks with a motorman about fare collection on an Amsterdam Avenue car. The gripman explains Bill is no longer employed and jokes that he had a short arm for the register.
The Boer national anthem was written by Catherine Felicia Van Rees an elderly Dutch pianist born in Zutphen in 1831. In 1875 Burgers then president of the South African republic asked her to compose the anthem for the Transvaal and she completed both words and music in hours. The Volksraad of Pretoria accepted her work and sent thanks.
Judge Ed Jared recalls a Murfreesboro census encounter as an enumerator in which a caller pressed a question about age. The anecdote centers on the terse exchange, illustrating onhand attitudes toward privacy during the census.
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