Carskaddan Burk and Pepper Attorneys at Law
Carskaddan Burk and Pepper are attorneys and counselors located at 183 West Second Street Muscatine Iowa. Telephone number listed as lower case Iowa 207 3.
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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1907
Page
6
Carskaddan Burk and Pepper are attorneys and counselors located at 183 West Second Street Muscatine Iowa. Telephone number listed as lower case Iowa 207 3.
The Rock Island System timetable shows trains Davenport to Chicago and west to California with numbers 12 50 4 88 2 3 49 11 89 1 402 401. The schedule lists daily operation except Sundays with southwest and westbound departures and arrivals including mail and express services. Agent W. S. Underdoak is listed.
Leave Muscatine arrive Muscatine recordings show daily Wilton branch trains with numbers 500 through 505. Times listed: 6:25 am 12:50 pm 3:20 pm 5:30 pm 10:15 pm and 11:50 pm, with service daily except Sunday.
In effect April 9 1905 the document lists eastbound times for passenger and freight trains. It notes 12 passenger cars with destination details and 8 passenger cars, plus freight service carrying passengers. Specific times appear throughout the schedule such as 5 30 pm 7 00 am and 11 44 pm with various car configurations.
OCR reads a bus timetable with numerous numbers and notes for daily and Sunday services. It lists several train or bus numbers, stop patterns, and times such as 7:42am 11:43am and 12:02pm, plus daily and no stop annotations.
North bound No. 5 No. 1 Ar Muscatine arrives 9:40 pm 8:00 am. Schedule lists departure times from Round House Hahn's Switch Fruitland Grandview Wapello and Elrick Junction with connections to Iowa Central and C R I P. No. 6 operates Monday only and No. 4 No. 2 daily except Sunday.
Carnival City Packet Co announces the White Collar Line summer schedule. Steamers Helen Blair and Columbia sail weekdays to Davenport and Burlington, with Sunday departures at 7:30 a.m., and a weekday 8:30 p.m. run. The Burlington arrival is 9:15 a.m. next day. Rates and details via W.G. Block Co and W. A. Blair, agents.
New York August 8. Opening stock dealings show continued liquidation with sharp declines of 1 to 2 percent on key issues led by Northern Pacific. Bears press the market as rallies by shorts yield brief 1 to 2 point recoveries while Harriman Hill interests suffer strongest blows.
The article reports on chautauqua events with speakers like M Crouch and John B. DeMott. It notes rain reducing attendance and outlines talks on The Giant Among Scatterbrains and A Plea for Posterity. Local social news includes visits, travel, and a false admission rumor corrected.
Wheat and corn prices mix as Sept contracts open and close near prior levels. Oats, rye, barley hold steady. pork, lard, ribs futures shown with Sep and Oct quotes. Cattle receipts rise with steady beef values. hogs and sheep volumes and prices listed for Aug 8 in Chicago markets.
Butter is firm in Chicago with creamery stock at 20 to 24 cents and dairy stock at 19 to 22 cents. Eggs hold steady at 18 to 20 cents. Market data dated August 8.
Chicago August 8 poultry market reports ease in prices with turkeys at 12 cents per pound chickens at 11 to 13 cents and springs 14 to 15 cents per pound reflecting lighter demand and steady supplies.
Wheat for September delivery prices 9 and one half cents per bushel. Corn listed at 63 4. cents per bushel. Local market statuses reflect standard grain trade quotes from New York Produce Market for today’s session.
In St Louis on August 8, the market reports September wheat at 85 4/8 cents, corn at 51 3/4 cents, oats at 42 3/4 cents. Prices shown reflect commodity trading updates for staple grains.
In Peoria today August 8 corn No 3 traded at 54 and a half cents per bushel. Market notes show steady demand with price firmness across the Midwest grain exchanges.
Corn at 55c per bit, oats 40 to 42c, wheat 75 to 80c retail $1.00. Cracked corn 1.35 per cwt. Pop corn on ear 1.15 to 1.25, shelled 1.40 to 1.75 per cwt. Pop per peck 30c. Bran 1.10 to 1.15 per cwt. Oil meal 1.60 per cwt. Shorts 1.15 to 1.20 per cwt. Barley 45 to 50c. Country eggs 13c market 15c retail. Chop feed 1.35 per cwt. Hay 10 to 12 dollars. Butter farmers pay 16 to 18c, retail 20 to 22c. Muscatine Produce Co fresh eggs per case 3.90 or per dozen 13c. Butter packing stock 1S8c per lb delivered.
Mrs Isett of Cairo hosted visitors while Lena Frerichs helps Mrs Murray this week. Several locals attended a Winfield chautauqua and other gatherings in Columbus Junction and Wapello. Trips included Mr and Mrs Berkshire visiting Sam Patterson and Lee Spyhirt with Minnie Wilson from Wapello.
Dim eyes tongue coated and poor appetite described as ailments cured by Electric Bitters. The ad notes a 50 cent price and credits Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store as the seller.
A simple mixture prescribed to help stomach performance in hot months. Compound Tincture of Cinchona one ounce Prosene Compound one ounce Sherry Wine half pint Mixed and taken as a teaspoonful in water before meals and at bedtime. Tonic effects claimed by stomach specialists to boost gastric juices and endurance in heat.
Wilton independents left for Tipton to face an independent team there. Lineup includes Kiilion Whitmer Winsell Dornseif Atwill Leith Kiser Shafit Cronin and umpire Cro nin. A second game is scheduled tomorrow afternoon against Muscatine White Sox.
Orville Melick of Cedar County suffered a knee cap fracture when his buggy overturned near Rochester after his horse spooked. Dr Brisbine attended and reports he is doing nicely. A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Clint Wallingford on Monday August 5.
Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store advertises Dr. King's New Discovery for Coughs and Colds with guaranteed relief. Package prices listed as 50 cents and one dollar.
Residents mourn the death of Louis Heberly found at the Fruitland Sand Pit after a storm Sunday. The community extends sympathy to his mother as details of the tragedy unfold. Numerous local residents and visitors from Muscatine and nearby towns are listed in social notes and travel plans. The Fruitland township sub-directors schedule a July 17 meeting at Lone Tree school for fall term teacher elections and applications.
Sigourney Iowa residents share reports from Hedrick Muscatine and Keota including John Martin Hayesville visiting and returning, the Houdek boys visiting Muscatine, Ol Brown returning from Keota, John Pfaff back from Charlton planning to spend fall nearby, and Miss Cecil Long of Bedford featured in local notes.
Tuesday visits and hometown notes feature Mrs. Sherman Needham Miss Long and teachers moving between Williamsburg Hedrick and South English families from Dubuque to Sigourney. Local repairs at blacksmith shops farmers gear up. Gildra Jones returns to Sigourney from Corydon with wife to stay awhile.
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