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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1902
Page
8
Notices mention The Maze at Columbus Junction fair on August 26 27 28 29. Local travelers and residents are listed visiting and attending events with trains and boat travel noted for several people and businesses in Muscatine Iowa area.
H. Schmidt & Son Co. announces the largest assortment of machines and records ever carried in the city. Call and hear the new records.
Eastern Iowa store H. Schmidt and Son Co markets the largest fall wallpaper stock with sale prices advertised as low as the lowest. The notice promotes wide selection and discount pricing for upcoming season.
A. P. McGuirk and Charles McKeff, Davenport, issue a call for a Democratic judicial convention in Davenport on October 4, 1902 at 11 a.m. at Hibernian hall to nominate four district judge candidates. The authors claim historic authority and note Muscatine's minimal representation.
Lehigh Valley Railroad operates superb vestibule trains between Chicago and New York or Philadelphia with through service and no changes. Passengers may stop over at Niagara Falls.
Relic hunters have stripped Tracy’s body of belongings and a guard has been placed over the corpse in Davenport Washington to prevent further removal as Aug 7 reports.
Travelers are offered a new sleeping car service by the Iowa Central Railway connecting St. Paul and Minneapolis with Kansas City St. Louis and Peoria. The Limited departs Elrick Junction daily at 7 57 a m for Peoria and other destinations, with details available from local ticket agents.
A European psychologist presents Cigarology, arguing pipe and cigar habits reveal character. The piece links careless puffing to generosity and loyalty, slow steady smoking to caution, and bitten ends or jetty smoke to irresponsibility or eccentricity. It claims observations can expose traits and even a person’s trade.
The inventor of charology argues from smoking habits that politicians guard a cigar between their lips and smoke it to the nose or mustache, signaling selfish greed. He also claims those who gnaw and roll the cigar end into a lump are highly suspicious and distrustful in nature.
A $100.00 cash prize is offered for naming the Rock Island System and Southern Pacific Company’s new Daily Limited train to California. The train debuts November 1, 1902 via the El Paso Short line. Open to the public with no entry fees. Send instructions to Jno. Sebastian, Passenger Traffic Manager, Rock Island System, Chicago.
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