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Newspaper
Sedalia Weekly Conservator
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1907
Page
2
Sedalia Weekly Conservator notes W H Huston as editor and publisher. It states the paper is published every Monday morning and entered at Sedalia Post Office as second class matter.
An Associated Press summary argues Missouri lawmakers consider a bill to establish Jim Crow Cars across lines. A Negro author contends Missouri is not Southern, cites cosmopolitan population, historic valor, and schools, questions why Jim Crow would fit Missouri, and laments potential stigma and racial prejudice.
A bitter polemic questions lawmakers and named families in the era’s political divide. The speaker vows resistance to perceived un-American ideologies and asserts manhood against disenfranchisement and oppression, invoking a dramatic image of stepping forth.
In a Tennessee poem titled At The Golden Gate, Oscar B. Prick portrays Saint Peter denying a boastful white man entry to heaven while admitting a Black man, tested at the gate by prejudice. The piece reflects racial barriers and irony, concluding with a call to divine justice and equality.
A public notice lists lodges that paid for space in the Official Directory. It reassures members that purchasing space aids communication among officials and lodges, while denying coercive collection methods. The named lodges include New Era, Kaw Valley, Kansas City, Richmond, San– no, St. Louis, Sedalia, New Madrid, Warrensburg, Miami, Clinton, Versailles, Utopia, and others across Missouri.
A bill introduced in the Alabama Legislature proposes state accountants examine the Tuskegee normal and industrial school led by Booker T. Washington to disclose expenditures and operations amid debate over public funding following recent riots. A separate measure seeks to tax-exempt lands to reduce county finances.
The Conservator reports on local developments this week, including council actions, school updates, and community events. Readers are urged to note upcoming meetings and funding decisions pending public input and official releases.
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