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Newspaper
Sedalia Weekly Conservator
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1905
Page
2
A brief notice records a weekly Saturday publication in Godalla Post-official class master entries. The fragment notes a standard posting schedule and an official designation, indicating routine processing of public notices.
On the 28th we visited New Franklin and conducted revival and lectures at Hughes Chapel. Rev Ellis and Dr J A Taylor aided our visits while local teachers, families, and students welcomed us. We toured schools, met Joseph Bell and Eli Bell, and observed carpentry work by Gibbs and Browles before continuing east toward Columbia.
A local store advertises a wide display of French and German wallaces, ribbons, linen handkerchiefs, silk mufflers, wool challies, damask dresser scarfs, and table cloths with prices from 25 cents to $1.50 and up. The ad emphasizes fashionable colors, styles, and a large assortment for gentlemen and ladies.
Advertises light colored cretons for handkerchiefs and laundry bags with a quick sale pitch. Mentions Christmas gifts suitable for ladies or gentlemen and a full display line available now.
The writer recalls leaving Felton for Mexico and meeting Rev J L Smith and George White the blacksmith. They visit a new school with Prof J J Hicks and Miss Georgia Pringle. They meet Booth and Douglas, visit Uncle James Smith’s family, and later greet Editor Logan in Columbia before reaching Glasgow where Rev H T Reeves escorts them to the Glasgow school led by Prof J H Chinn.
Two girls discuss a misfortune then hear of a rescue at the shore. One recalls being saved from drowning while swimming. The other remarks that the event amounts to good luck amid the loss. The fragment captures seaside preoccupation with luck and danger.
A readable fragment reports a man who was married while being involved with a young woman during a summer event. The brief notes social complications and a custody or relationship tension surrounding the pair. No further identifying details are available in the text.
In a quirky exchange, Mistress Youngman laments a dead canary while Wenivel and others joke about stuffing the bird for a future hat. The bus-voice remarks on costs and plans, reflecting light social banter from Philadelphia society.
We offer enlarging, framing, portraits and frames of every kind including sacred and scenery pictures. We supply moldings, art novelties, glass, mats, hooks, and other artist materials. Honest thrifty agents sought nationwide. Send 2 cent stamp to R H McDonald at 1106 Gay Street Nashville Tenn for details.
The Interstate Literary Association of Kansas and the West will convene in Kansas City Missouri December 26 27 and 28. Each society is entitled to three delegates and three alters notes. New societies or those not enrolled previously pay 1.50 membership. societies enrolled at the last session pay 1.00. The Executive Committee will meet in November to finalize the program. Applications for membership should go to Jas HW Gey President 429 Kans Ave Topeka Kansas or J M Monroe Chairman Ex Committee 1608 FB 13th St Kansas City Mo Miss A IS Moor Corresponding Secretary 1214 Vine St Kansas City Mo.
State superintendent answers on compulsory education enforcement. Home instruction must be regular and during normal school hours, equivalent to in school guidance. The court, not teachers or truants, can excuse. distance from school is not a hardship criterion for excusal.
A local listing notes Tox 81 in Paris Missouri offering a supply trade and mentions a Great Southern Hai Pomade product. The item signals a small commerce note within the page.
The text outlines that a court may excuse a child for lack of proper clothing but not for inability to buy books, and that school boards must furnish books. It urges charitable aid for clothing, designates attendance officers to prosecute noncompliant parents, and requires written court excuses to avoid prosecution. It notes suspension or expulsion powers and when demoralizing conduct warrants reformatory action.
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