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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1902
Page
5
A reader questions the legality of a $55,400 bond issue and asks why the city would pay interest if the bonds are illegal. The writer cites a City Attorney opinion claiming none of the issue is legal or collectible and urges full cancellation to save the city $55,400.
Mark Cahill driving a ten cent delivery wagon collided with Chester Pace a Western Union messenger boy riding a bicycle on East Third street at about 10 o clock. Cahill was thrown from the wagon and suffered a severe scalp wound and loss of consciousness. Dr. Shirk attended Cahill.
Michigan station tests favor 21 inch beet rows and higher nitrate nitrogen. Nitrate of soda increases sugar percentage and beet yield more than sulphate ammonia, and home mixed fertilizer outperforms commercial fertilizer in sugar yield. Stable manure raises tonnage but not total sugar pounds.
Miss Fannie Woolery hosted a small gathering at home in honor of her guest Miss Stella Gentry of Syracuse Missouri. The evening featured graphophone music and games with refreshments served and all in pleasant spirits.
Whimsical verse from a Yonkers writer features playful exchanges and jokes about domestic life. The humor contrasts gendered roles and social expectations with light mischief and wordplay.
A brief exchange features Patience praising a man’s piano playing while Patrice questions whether he played or carried the instrument. The dialogue mentions a cold smack after the performance and the man’s attention to a Boston girl, including theater dates.
A lighthearted Yonkers Statesman quip notes Mrs. Bacon-Tommie sending a boy to the market for preplant who asks for the custard variety. The gag hinges on a playful mishearing and a humorous exchange about grocery items.
A courtroom exchange. lawyer questions the defendant regarding the phrase execute a backdown. The witness confirms and then a sharp line of questioning about the meaning follows with the witness replying a man can hang his head. The dialogue captures tense cross examination dynamics in a Chicago Tribune excerpt.
A farmer recalls flooding a marsh with oil to kill mosquitoes last year. He says the oil settled the mosquitoes but nearly burned the house when a lighted match dropped in. This year the family plans to take their chances with mosquitoes to avoid fire insurance issues.
A Washington Star quip features a politician denying regret for early education. He jokes that if he spoke perfectly grammar voters might see him as pretentious and lose touch with working people.
A humorous exchange from Chicago News contrasts a mother’s prohibition with a child’s correction about verb use. The mother tells her child not to swim, while the child notes the distinction between must and could in the directive.
A quotation from the Chicago Post discusses how a photograph flatters a subject without actually viewing it. The exchange notes the subject expressed great pleasure with the image, provoking reaction about judging by hearsay versus sight.
A playful exchange notes the speaker’s knowledge of the language of flowers. Hortense Hen Oh mentions hearing the gardener speak it after gardening tasks, adding a light humorous element to the dialogue.
Emile Zola the renowned novelist and defender of Dreyfus and Jewish people was found dead in his Paris home by Monday morning. Official cause listed as asphyxiation from stove fumes in his room. Mme Zola, then seriously ill, was moved to a hospital but regained consciousness.
About 3 PM Monday a fifty year old farmer was struck by a Katy switch engine at the Washington avenue crossing. His wagon was knocked off the track but not broken. He drove away shouting while the engine stopped and switchman Shugart leaped from the pilot to avoid collision.
Mrs Louisa W McCullough wife of General Robert McCulloch of Clark's Fork died at her Boonville Missouri home and was buried there this morning. She leaves a husband and three children Miss Bettie Mrs G M Williams of Dallas Texas and General R L McCulloch of Hamilton Montana.
The fifteen month old child of Mr and Mrs R W Lankeman died Monday night at 9 at 309 West Cooper street due to brain fever. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at the St Paul German Lutheran church.
In a federal court Monday John ID Isenberg of Sedalia received his final discharge. Sedalia bankruptcy petitioners William D. Hooper and Sebastian J. Hill filed applications for discharge. Jefferson City Tribune.
Announcement of the marriage of John Kaiser Jr a Sedatka businessman to Hey ter Porter daughter of J C and Mrs Porter set for Wednesday evening October 8 in Sedatka The Sentinel extends best wishes in advance
David White of Smithton and J L Jellison of Bunceton visited the city on Monday. Frank B Meyers is due home tonight from Manitou Cole. Jim Farris came in from Dresden yesterday with a sprained ankle from a fall off a horse. M Jopling of Longwood was in town. Rev Fr Francis Graham of St Joseph was en route to McAllister Springs yesterday. Mrs E N Wood and her baby will depart tomorrow for Springfield Illinois to attend the state fair. I A Shepard arrived from Tipton on business today. Secretary J R Rippey plans to leave tomorrow for Springfield Illinois to attend the Illinois State fair.
A string of regional visits and travel notes from Sedalia and nearby towns. Residents and visitors include Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Dickman, W. E. Lower of Longwood, Miss Myrtle Blocker, Mrs. S. E. Barrick now in Kansas City, Mrs. M. E. Langrecht, K D A Fultz, Attorneys Shortridge and Higdon, S. R. Payne, L. G. Boies, George Brill, Ned Spencer, Bud Shepard, Ben Bond, Mrs. Frances Cummings of Lambert Okla., Ben Gorrell, Ernest Holtzen, Duden of Missouri Pacific, George Ficken, Rev. E. E. Barclay, J. A. Collins, Ella Collins, and a telegram on Tony Doble’s cousin’s death.
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