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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1901
Page
7
Bryant Tewmey Day Goods Co promotes Dress Goods Week with a wide fall assortment. A steam sponger polishes fabrics while customers shop, and ten new silk waist lengths arrive. Prices start at $1.00 a yard with displays in the south and north windows.
The Sentinel reports rising telephone use in Sedalia as two local companies grow. The manager shares weekly August statistics showing expanding customer bases and increasing daily inquiries, with both firms benefiting from the broader adoption of telephones in the city.
The Bell Missouri and Kansas line reports growing business as Sedalia gains first class local service. The Queen City plant, under Manager Thew, records rising call volumes with over 15 000 weekly and more than 3000 calls on August 31. Average answer time sits at a decimal over three seconds as new subscribers push total to about 330. Lumber yards in the city have installed Queen City phones.
Classifieds list a millinery line at Bogar's 317 Ohio with Carl A Guenther at 310 Ohio street. Baltimore Oysters Direct promotes sale. Candy Palace announces new phone 218.
A portrait of Emma Goldman, a nurse turned lecturer among New York slum poor, identified with radical anarchism. The piece notes her influence on Leon Czolgsz and her role as a leading, dramatic speaker in the movement led by Herr Most, attracting crowds with fervent talks.
The Sedalia Missouri city council enacts Ordinance No. 436 setting a license tax of seven dollars fifty cents every six months for selling goods from wagons carts or wheeled vehicles on city streets with a daily misdemeanor penalty of up to one hundred dollars for nonpayment. The ordinance takes effect after passage and approval dated September 6 1901.
Cohen Brothers West Main street fuel and junk dealers fleet a large covered wagon omnibus to run Sunday and all week between Ohio street and the State fair grounds every hour. Fare ten cents one way or fifteen cents round trip. They claim faster, more comfortable service than the railroads.
The leading ladies' hairdresser from Louisville arrives at Snell's Hair Store at 122 West Third Street Sedalia. Her services include manicure massage and hair work and are welcomed by Sedalia's ladies.
The Medical Aid Association of America offers sickness accident and burial assistance with medical services and medicines up to $50 yearly and burial expenses up to $100. For details contact E. H. Chapman, local manager, rooms 225 and 227 Sigenfritz building Sedalia Mo.
Land sale notice urging purchase of farming rice ranches garden and prairie plots in Wharton county Texas with easy terms and Sunny South health appeal. Address requests go to R. Martin Louise for details.
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