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Newspaper
Sedalia Weekly Conservator
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1907
Page
2
Local ad rates printed for the Sedalia Weekly Conservator edited by H Huston. Rates include 1 to 10 inches at 25 cents per inch, 10 to 50 inches at 20 cents per inch, plus local lines at 10 cents per line of six words. Office at 121 East Main Street. Subscription options listed with annual, semiannual, quarterly, and single copy prices. Correspondents and agents wanted in Central Missouri.
A four year newspaper experience leads the Conservator to adopt a conservative handling of general news and refuse as an official organ for any lodge party church or individual. The paper pledges justice fair play and reciprocity while promising to boost legitimate enterprises and require advance subscription after January 1 1908 at one and a half dollars per year.
A historic exhortation on self discipline for Black youth urging steadiness, hard work, and mastery over effort. It contrasts easy money and idle company with enduring labor and honorable life-work, warning against diversion into vice and sensationalism and advocating perseverance to raise communal prospects.
Williams and Walker appear in Bandanna Land at the New Sedalia Theatre delivering their latest comic success. The show draws both white and Black audiences to see cultured Negro performers. Cole and Johnson are noted among Sedalia's featured talent.
J M Arbuckle and agents advertise books, stationery, picture cards, sacred and secular post cards. Correspondence solicited from Washington and Boston area buyers.
Performance highlights Williams and Walker and The Smart Set with Billy Kereande staged successfully. The text notes that Negro patrons regret prejudice limits on accommodations and Sedalia is praised for liberal treatment of its Black citizens, urging plans to grant full civic rights in theatres and beyond.
The edition notes the Court House program marking the Seventieth Anniversary of Lovejoy’s martyrdom. Addresses praise Lovejoy as a Christian patriot whose forbearance under mob hatred and threats underscored his right. The piece urges the Negro to build character and patience to overcome prejudice and injustice through steady, principled action.
A fragmentary political column notes possible deaths and inquiries in Ohio and Kentucky, Senate probes into Brownsville, upcoming August 11 primaries, and a temperance surge. It mentions Attorney Holmes Hall planning to relocate by January, training under Henry Lam, and hints at Hatley’s potential gubernatorial bid amid reform pressures and old guard calculations.
Al G Wheeler, a progressive tensorial artist, adds a fine bathroom with hot and cold water to his shop at 103 North Lamine. The ad invites patrons to bathe at a reasonable price, promising cleanliness.
A brief notice urges readers to remit for their subscriptions today. It emphasizes honesty as the path to timely payments and continued service. The item reads like a local reader plea encouraging prompt renewal to avoid service disruption.
A mournful poem honoring Curtis and a youthful life cut short by death. The speaker recalls June birth and March death, cherishes shared days in palace, college halls, and home, and hears a singing voice across space as a mother and siblings pledge memory until they join in death. CORA MAE DANIELS is named.
Jacob Riis recalls a San Francisco paper in which an 18 year old wrote a clever headline. The act aimed to curb alcohol near the university and the student caption read An Act to Promote Pedestrianism Among Our Students.
See See gleek hissee haeer mm See See gleek hissee haeer mm Private orders given special attention When you buy Camel's Beer you will be patronising a home industry promoting quality and service in this advertisement from a historic source.
A special committee lays out six recommendations to improve literacy, ministerial standards, temperance, home ownership among Afro Americans, Black enterprise, and public conduct. It urges education in head hand and heart, higher ministerial qualifications, year round anti intemperance campaigns, homeownership, collective economic effort, and respectable public behavior.
A young teacher seeking a definition asks students what the spinal cord is. After blank faces, a small boy exclaims with excitement that the epidal cord runs through you with the head on one end and you sit on the other.
The Houston Post quotes a joke about a man who marries a woman for her cooking and another who marries for her dressmaking, portraying a contented, practical husband.
In a provincial vignette a gentle matron questions a boy about his poor catch. Tommy replies that others lie about their pictures, and he cannot bring himself to lie, revealing a clash between honesty and peer pressure in a small community.
Remarkable woman lived in Washington era with Washington and Jefferson and was first in the country to write poetry. A magnificent engraving is issued and sold for fifty cents. Address Col ed American Novelty Co. P. D. Drawer 2318 Washington DC. Agents wanted.
An ad praising Toussaint L Ouverture as a soldier statesman and martyr who held off sixty ships and thirty thousand trained soldiers with a small force. Wendell Phillips called him the greatest general the world has produced. Includes pictures of eminent colored people for sale by Colored American Novelty Co., Washington, D C. Agents wanted.
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