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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1901
Page
4
M. D. Tuch opens a new commission house at 124 West Third Street offering stocks grain and provisions with direct wires to the Chicago Board of Trade and New York Stock Exchange. Correspondent Cella Commission Co St Louis.
John P. Burke and many locals travel and work in Sedalia during the fair week. Notables include Hattie Lower, Susie Stetman, Warren Galbreath, J. D. Woodward, Miss Kate Roth, and many others visiting, cheering events, and handling business. Local officials, drivers, and engineers attend and mingle with guests from California, Boonville, Warrensburg, and beyond.
Missouri state chess tournament underway at the courthouse with players from across the state. Attendees include Dr. J. L. Ormsbee of Springfield Dr. Clapp and Dr. Shrader of Moberly Charles Ferguson Orville Capen and J. C. Ferrell of Sweet Springs. An officers election is held tonight and Dr. Shrader will perform a blindfolded exhibition.
The Sedalia Steam Dye Works announces a new delivery wagon and invites customers to call for free estimates. Dyeing cleaning and repairing are offered promptly and artistically with all orders delivered free. Office at 219 South Lamine Street and Queen City telephone 316.
A robbery occurred in Lamonte this morning amid the crowd boarding the train to Sedalia. The victim, Mr. Carpenter of St. Louis, visiting with his nephew James Carpenter, had a pocketbook containing $18 stolen from his pocket.
Removal shoe sale now on at 20 percent discount. Huyssen & Holm advertise a shoe sale with a 20 percent reduction and listing of the store. BEYOND A DOUBT. We lead in style and prices on lace curtains. From 38c, 69c to $7.50 a pair. The Boston, 214 Ohio Street. Ott's soda water is freshly carbonated, pure, cooling, and exhilarating.
George B. Goodrich states readiness to clean wells and cisterns to a satisfactory standard and to set prices that will suit everyone. Located at Eighteenth and Marvin.
The public library will close Thursday from 2 to 6 p m. It remains open in the morning and evening as usual.
The Missouri Pacific conductor D. S. Campbell had two trunks broken open and looted at his residence on East Third Street last night while he was out of the city. Police investigated the burglary and liaised with Campbell upon his return.
The notice lists railway workers including J. J. Hickey engineer Parsons J rogers coal heaver McAlester J O Connor trucker Denison W H Salmans section laborer Limestone Gap J J Huddleston fireman Denison A L Junta fireman Denison J M Jones conductor Denison B C Mon Pleasure brakeman Denison R Johnson brakeman Muscogee
The Phoenixville Bridge company, under contract for river route bridges, moved their machinery to Arkansas to install bridges for the Southern Missouri and Arkansas railroad. They expect Missouri Pacific rails not ready until after November 1, when gear will return for local bridge projects.
Jefferson City Press reports division superintendent M Stillwell visited Enon last week to select a site for a Missouri Pacific Depot. He will report to management, who may order construction without delay.
Superintendent G. W. Inge of the Northwestern railroad was in town today. J. W. Jackson and Ed Daugherty were discharged from the Katy hospital this morning. A tragic accident occurred on the Missouri Pacific at Warrensburg Monday evening as an unknown 18 year old tramp was killed when crushed by a moving freight train.
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