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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1902
Page
2
A Sedalia writer asked Printer's Ink about advertising rates. The reply urged to charge all you can get, noting the stress on maximizing price and using a fast stenographer for rapid, accurate work.
A J Fults & Co advertises Windsor coal for cooking and heating at 3.00 per ton with full weight guaranteed. Dry and green wood is available in cord or stove lengths with low prices. Contact at 412 East Twelfth Street or by phone Queen City 21 Bell 84. A Missouri State Fair note follows about the fair’s early success and financial handicaps.
Twenty thousand attended Big Thursday as rain dampened events yet the Missouri fair drew strong paid admissions near five thousand dollars more than last year. Exhibits earned praise and organizers urge lawmakers to back the fair for continued showcase of state resources.
Missouri experiments show alfalfa grows rapidly and improves soil with up to five harvests yearly. It matches timothy in price and fattening cattle, while cowpeas complement alfalfa by building land. State fair displays alfalfa as a leading agricultural exhibit.
J. P. Davis of Holt county won first prize with twelve acres producing thirty six tons of hay valued at $560 from the first cutting and seed worth $240 from the second. A third cutting yielded thirty tons for $300 and the fourth cropping covered grazing value, totaling about $960 from twelve acres. Henry Turner of Carrington, Callaway county, took second prize with a similar crop experience at Sedalia.
The Nebraska Colorado Express departs Kansas City at 9 35 p m and reaches Denver at 3 15 p m next day, three hours faster. It offers late-afternoon arrival for business or visiting in Denver with five hours there before continuing west in chair cars sleepers and dining cars. The morning Denver Express leaves KC at 10 40 a m with through tourist sleepers to California via Scenic Colorado.
An advertisement invites readers to describe a proposed trip to the Northwest and receive a low-cost quote and printed matter. It lists R. H. Crozier TPA in Kansas City and agents L. W. Wakely Howard Elliott in St. Louis as contacts for the Burlington Northern Express.
Classified advertisement details rare 25 cent rate per 18 words under Help Wanted sections. Includes horse and phaeton for sale listing: inquire at 1708 South Moniteau with owner C. W. Cocking. Obituary and lodge notices priced per line.
Classified notice seeks a matron and a janitor for City Hospital. Apply by letter to Mrs A P Morey, president.
Van B. Wisker offers for sale a fine red Durham bull, a well natured Jersey bull, a red Jersey boar, and quantities of Timothy hay and white oats.
For sale items include a soft coal base burner a small wood cook stove and furniture for four rooms all nearly new located at 721 West Forth Street indicating a local classified notice to buyers.
Horse wagon and harness offered for sale described as light family use and gentle horse. Inquire at Broad way crossing for details and price.
For sale including H H furniture a new Columbia telephone and a Singer sewing machine. Located at 212 West Fourth Street.
Classified notice seeks a reliable man or woman in each county to run a mature business. The position offers a steady weekly cash salary of 18 dollars paid by check every Wednesday. Head expenses cover daily costs. a 340 Caxton quarters address in Chicago lists the manager’s location and money advances for SDG.
A local theater seeks twenty men and ten good looking girls to serve as supernumeraries for the production Under Two Flags. Applicants should apply at the opera house on Wednesday morning.
The Grand Trunk Railway promotes a scenic route to Muskoka and Kawartha Lakes, St. Lawrence River, White Mountains, and Atlantic coast resorts. Starting June 23, the Pullman vestibule drawing room sleeping cars depart Chicago daily at 3 02 p.m. to Portland and Boston via Port Huron, Toronto, and Montreal. Applications for tourist publications to George W. Vaux, A G P T A, 135 Adams Street, Chicago.
An old advertisement claims women can wear shoes one size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease powder. It asserts instant relief for corns and bunions, swelling, blisters, and sore spots, plus a foot deodorant claim. Trial package offered by mail from Allen S. Olmsted in Le Roy, New York.
Mr and Mrs James Mize depart Sunday for Kansas City and Carthage vowing a two week absence. In Mr Mizes absence William Roley will drive the Express company wagon by day and J A Glover by night.
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