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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1901
Page
5
Fine 10-4 Colored Cotton Blanket 75c pair and 11-4 versions from 89c to 1.25. White cotton options from 75c to 1.25. All wool blankets include 10-4 and 11-4 white at 3.98 to 5.00 per pair. Plaid wool blankets range 3.98 to 5.00 per pair. Special gray all wool 10-4 at 2.98.
T Campbell Downing, 21, Bucklin public school principal, shot himself in a hotel room. He left a letter asking papers print only his birth and death facts and warned not to publish details. he was born June 20 1880 and died October 29 1901.
A stream of short notices lists visits and trips by local residents and notable travelers. R A Higdon and C C Lawson offer private loans at Katie building. Coleman markets family groceries at Seventh and Ohio. Numerous residents travel to Warrensburg, Kansas City, Eureka Kansas, Boonville, Lamonte, Smithton, Florence, and Lexington for business, family, or religious events. A wedding at 1103 East Rev marks a notable social gathering.
A library bulletin outlines Hallowe'en related articles and books. Items include Chambers Book of Days Burns Hallowe en Martin Hallowe en and other poems planning for a Hallowe en party ghost stories and various authors works such as Kipling Balzac and Schiller with themes of ghosts fantasy and enchantment.
Bridge No.9 on the Katy between Prairie Lick and Boonville was found on fire this morning by passenger No. 2 trainmen. Trail 101 was delayed for hours. Origin of the fire unknown. Sheriff Dillard received word of a horse held at Gray's Summit matching the description of a horse stolen from Samuel Brown on October 8 and taken from a boy arrested there.
William Morrow alias Miller alias Shields, charged with burglary and larceny in Herman Missouri, was returned to Herman but escaped custody after breaking jail. He is from Boonville and has been tracked within three miles of the city. T. J. Bopp of Kansas City and Alvina Schwarz of 625 West Sixth marry at Sacred Heart church in the morning with attendants Eugene Bopp and Ella Schwarz. Mary Schwarz was flower girl. Charles Marion Barde and Floye Trail Games wed at St Pauls Episcopal church last night.
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