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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1901
Page
6
A Bankers' Magazine piece argues for adding a half-cent coin to improve change in small transactions. It cites California history, the impact on dealers, and annual savings of about $3.65 per person from daily half-cent savings. The tale concludes with a humorous farmers scare turn about a wife using a coat to end a domestic quarrel.
A physician explains the body’s daily energy budget, comparing it to a business account. The piece details body weight composition, with water and living matter forming the majority, and describes how nitrogenous foods, fats, starches, and minerals fuel and build the body, with water as a key nutrient.
A thirtyish man in a depot waiting room holds a one year old in his lap and fears delays. A jovial passenger jokes that the man is waiting for a wife who left to fetch baggage, then learns the baby is his. The misunderstanding ends as the man reveals the infant is his child with his wife.
A New York Journal humorous piece recounts John hearing a phonograph while visiting a shop. He tries to listen but misreads the source of music, fearing a band following the noise then hastily returning to his horses.
A New York Weekly fragment shows editor and assistant trading questions about answers, type, building articles, and ads. The dialogue highlights deadlines and a plan to write columns on increasing circulation before going to press.
A sociological student challenges Kelly who insists he works for every cent and rejects the notion that the world owes him a living. He declares he has never been involved in politics and defends his brain work as the source of his income.
A character insists on forcing a woman to sing a disliked song again as punishment. He claims the act harms him yet is willing to endure it to exact revenge, while others question why anyone would applaud such a torment.
A quarrel between an aged husband and a young wife centers on a cape the wife bought for fifty dollars. The husband argues against extravagance and buying cheap. The wife defends the purchase as not cheap.
A schoolboy asks what relics mean and recalls being punished by the master. He says the master licked him once and then licked him again, calling it a re-lick as a joke about punishment in class.
She mocks Lionel for being slow in proposing. She remarks that two years have passed since he devoted himself to her, while he has yet to make a definite offer. The exchange features sharp accusation of slowness and candid sentiment.
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