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Newspaper
Sedalia Weekly Conservator
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1905
Page
2
The Sedalia edition announces plans for a main yearly outlook under Sepatta Weekly Consrsera tor. It promises a cleaner, upgraded press, broader correspondents, and lower prices for patrons. It urges support from the community and highlights continued gratitude to Sedalia citizens.
The act empowers city or district boards with 3000 plus population to appoint attendance officers to enforce truancy laws. Officers’ duties and compensation are set by the board and funded from public school budgets. Children deemed habitual truants or incorrigible or idle may be assigned to truancy or parental schools by the board or court.
A reader testifies that one bottle of Ozonized Ox Marrow stops hair breakage and grows length from seven to ten inches, promising straight, soft hair, dandruff cure, and harmlessness. The ad urges sending fifty cents to Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. in Chicago and mentions a coal business contact.
The act bars employment of children aged eight to fourteen during school hours unless a certificate of attendance is provided by a school superintendent or teacher. Violations by owners or supervisors are misdemeanors with fines from twenty to fifty dollars plus costs. prosecutions run in the state courts, with fines funding the county or city permanent school fund.
The act mandates that in Missouri every child ages eight to fourteen attend a day school at least half the instructional time, with provisions for exemptions due to poverty or illness. It empowers local boards to establish truancy and parental schools, assigns attendance officers, and imposes fines or imprisonment for noncompliance. annual notices and birth verification may be required, and districts must publish a synopsis before school opens.
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