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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1901
Page
5
Abuena Waters and others advertise at Mellor's 112 Osage St offering 15 hour price and 10c per bottle. The Celebrated Moerschel Sedalia Beer touted as largest glass in town at 5 cents. All leading brands 35 per thousand cigars sold for 5 cents.
The Chicago Tribune notes that about two hundred passenger trains arrive at the city’s six stations each day, bringing approximately 40 000 strangers into Chicago.
An old advertisement for DeWitt's Little Early Risers claims the pills compel liver and bowels to act, delivering pure rich blood to aid recovery. The copy notes easy intake and no griping, attributed to W. E. Bard Drug Co.
A Parisian man who placed a fender in front of his car to protect children chasing a ride was forced to remove the device after boys kept tumbling into the net for a free spin.
An 1870s style advertisement offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh cure not helped by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It includes testimonials from Toledo druggists West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin vouching for F J Cheney. The ad notes Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and priced at 75 cents per bottle with testimonials free.
Pearl Harbor Hawaii will become a key Pacific naval hub with large machine shops a dry dock and a first class warship repair station established to support wartime operations.
Mrs Minerva Smith of Danville Illinois says she suffered bronchitis for twenty years and found relief with Foley’s Honey and Tar a proven remedy for throat and lung troubles sold by all druggists.
In a Burlesque scene at the Madrid palace Sagasta tells the queen regent Spain has lost its colonies and money is short. Alfonso, puzzled by the news, asks about supper as the royals scramble to explain the new reality.
A New York Weekly snippet shows a father telling his daughter not to worry about crossing the ocean, saying she can swim. The light exchange captures travel nerves and parental reassurance before a sea voyage.
An old navy tale recalls parrots bought in Africa that learned nautical commands. A captain’s orders echoed by birds amused crew, and a parrot later recognized a former master in a Boston doorway, linking ship life to city streets through a single feathered creature.
In a Chicago bookstore a young man ordered Barrie’s latest volume due to no stock. A week later a clerk chased a passerby who turned out not to be the buyer. The man said Margaret Ogilvy was waiting, then clarified he did not know Miss Ogilvy, leaving the cler k amused by the mix up.
A couple exchanges intimate banter as a man rushes to the store at seven, fearing a wage dock for lateness. The woman begs him to stay a moment longer, counting the candles and insisting night remains. He insists he must go and dustes before leaving.
Mrs Corntessel remarks the city seems quieter after six months while Hiram returns not with gold but with counterfeit money in two dollars and a plugged fifty cent piece, suggesting fewer scams and his steady if modest progress.
A Pall Mall Magazine piece by A Quiller-Couch recalls an 1897 quip about the word jubilee. An old Dartmoor woman explains it as a gold wedding if the husband lives after fifty years, or a jubilee if he is dead, illustrating humorous misunderstanding of the term.
A gray mountaineer, widower, shares life lessons after dinner in a well kept cabin. He jokes about marrying again despite failures, while the narrator notes the need for action beyond good intentions and the value of fidelity to duty.
About a year ago a Wichita Kansas house was entered by a burglar who stole a pocketbook containing $60. Weeks ago the owner received a letter with a $10 bill and a note confessing the theft and promising more, saying remorse gnaws at the heart.
A brisk visitor, Mr Bizz, asks Miss Frame to capture him as he is in a casual mood. He inquires about cabinet or carte style while proposing marriage, startling the landlady and others with the abrupt request.
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