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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1902
Page
4
Constantin Kardax, a young Polish man, aimed to deposit rubles worth about 12000 dollars at a Warsaw bank but was robbed after a stranger offered him a cigarette. He fainted, woke in a drug store, and found his supposed companion and the money gone. The druggist noted a peculiar odor from the cigarette.
Herr Saltzmann of Bloemfontein told old cronies a tale of a farm bought from W De Beers for a waistcoat. The land, poor and waterless, later yielded magnificent diamonds making it priceless beyond measure.
A typewritten note from Mark Twain explains the social nuance of autograph requests. He compares asking a doctor for an autograph to asking for an artist’s work or a sculptor’s piece, then notes it would be unfair to request a doctor’s corpse as a keepsake. The missive exists as a singular humorous artifact from his persona.
Bold advertisement claims Rocky Mountain Tea makes children eat sleep and grow and fosters a healthy family. The jumbled line references Bard Drug Company in unclear form.
A medical ad describes Minute Cough Cure as a quick relief for coughs croup and throat and lung troubles. It claims to allay inflammation clear the head and strengthen the mucous membrane and asserts safety and immediacy for children.
A peculiar clock uses a geyser as its mechanism. The geyser shoots hot water every thirty eight seconds, striking a lever that moves the clock hands forward thirty eight seconds. The timing is exact to the tenth of a second and operates for the town’s inhabitants.
An old time grocer ad urges readers to keep white yellowed clothes bright using Red Cross Ball Blue. It notes the product is sold in packages at 5 cents and available at all grocers.
A sum of 40 000 taels about £6000 has been subscribed for the repair of the Summer Palace at Peking. The money comes wholly from officials who have been degraded, the piece notes.
Dated lines from a Detroit Free Press joke page note Skidmore and PoinDexter discussing Chicago canning and Maryland. The quip plays on Maryland motto and a national pun about capability. The exchange is brief and humorous with casual attribution.
The earliest fire extinguishing devices appear in Augsburg city records for 1518 calling them instruments for fires and water syringes. Inventor Anthony Blatner, a Friedberg goldsmith, later Augsburg citizen, mounted on wheels and operated by levers. A 1657 Jesuit Caspar Schott describes a large Nuremberg engine on a sledge, 10 by 4 feet, needing 28 workers and throwing water a jet 1 inch wide up to eighty feet.
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