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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1903
Page
4
A local advertisement by G. M. Titus at 118 Iowa Avenue promotes buying a home with a small initial payment and long-term financing. The message urges readers to avoid renting and to start saving toward property ownership.
Traveler's Guide lists Rock Island routes from Muscatine to Chicago Omaha St Louis Denver Memphis Colorado Spring and more. It details train numbers times special services Golden State Limited limited vestibule routes to Denver and Kansas City connections via St Joseph and Evans, plus Wilton branch timings and daily operations.
Passenger Prvngnt details show arrival times 8:15 a.m. 8:40 a.m. 7:10 p.m. 6 200 p.m. and E. R. Beem, agent, noted.
The following schedule will go into effect on the M N and S railroad May 31 at 1 o clock PM. South bound trains run daily except Sundays with No 1 from Muscatine at 11 10 AM and No 3 at 5 45 PM arriving at Brick Junction 1 05 PM. North bound trains No 2 from Brick Junction at 7 00 AM and No 4 at 1 35 PM arriving Muscatine 3 30 PM.
Train No. 1 Rock Island arrives Burlington 1 50 p m. Iowa Central No. 4 at Elrick Junction for Peoria and east. Train No 5 at Elrick Junction for locals west and to Oskaloosa Grinnell Marshalltown Meson City Minneapolis Saint Paul. Saturdays Elrick Junction 6 00 p m to Muscatine 9 45 p m for connection with Iowa Central No 5 from Peoria. Mondays Muscatine 5 00 a m to Elrick Junction 6 45 a m connecting with Iowa Central for Peoria Monmouth and locals east. Charles Howard General Manager.
At Eirick Junction schedules show northbound trains No 3 Mason City Mail No 15 St Paul Express and No 45 Way Freight with times. Southbound lines No 4 Peoria Mail No 16 Peoria Express and No 44 Way Freight with times. Coupon tickets on sale to all points in US Canada and Mexico.
The Iowa State Golf Association announced the annual tournament program to be held August 25 to 29 during fair week in Muscatine interests. The schedule features 18 hole medal play qualifiers, multiple flight match play rounds, and finals for championship and ladies events with prizes and concessions.
Clyde Williams a longtime Iowa athlete and holder of multiple Ti honors has been named first assistant coach for the University of Iowa football team. The appointment was announced by H E Spangler and covers the upcoming season with Williams earning 400 dollars. Training quarters will open at the university within a month as Hawkeyes prepare for the season.
Art Barnard hosted a lively gathering at his West Third Street home in honor of Misses Ada and Blanche Harris of Princeton Illinois. Music and games entertained guests with a featured musical number by Blanche Harris and Emerson Bowman. Attendees included Blanche and Ada Harris Gert rude Vanatta Pearl Vanatta Bessie Reinsinger Ada Pitchforth Lee Ewing Emerson Bowman Edward Beck Clayton Vanatta Will Fitzgerald Robert Pitchforth.
This morning Ollie Karg was hurt at the Huttig factory on East Second Street when his hand was caught in a panel raiser. He was taken to Dr. H M Dean and treated for a badly lacerated hand with skinning and deep cuts to the first, second, and third fingers.
Great Northern Railway announces very low round trip tickets to North Pacific Coast points from August to 14. For complete information write to W. M. Romine D P A G N Ry 407 Walnut street Des Moines Ia.
Isaac Ballinger was crushed by an Illinois Central freight train in Webster City Iowa while riding the brake beam. He died at Mercy Hospital after the incident. He leaves a wife and two children in Cairo Illinois.
A busy city notes births and visitors while promoting events. Cigar Foxy Grandpa notes, to be remembered. several residents and guests traverse from Nichols, Minneapolis, Stockton, Davenport, Hershey hospital, and Ohio. Upcoming fairs, excursions, church socials, and charitable meetings fill the social calendar as town residents plan visits and family occasions.
Rock Island train crews in Muscatine threaten to refuse passenger fares if a railroad-wide strike proceeds. They insist on running only mail trains and may remove coaches, risking full service suspension for travelers unless the company accepts Brotherhood demands. Local officers report no strike orders by 3:40 PM, with possible action tonight.
The Hathaway flouring mill at Mapleton will be sold at sheriff’s sale to satisfy a mortgage for several thousand dollars.
Advertises non speculative southern land investments with first class market and shipping facilities and mild climate. Claims prices below real value yield high returns. Offers free circulars Nos 1 to 19 on lands in Kentucky West Tennessee Mississippi and Louisiana near the Illinois Central railroad for homeseekers and investors. Address J. F. Merry Ass't Gen's Pass Agent I C R R Dubuque Iowa.
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