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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1902
Page
2
Travelers guide notes daily passenger service to Montezuma except Sunday and freight arrivals. Train spener 2S 2. Me departs 1:40 a.m. C. M. GovULp, agent.
The timetable lists east and southwest departures with Nos 12 8 16 and 9 1 11 21 trains, changes to routes via Kansas City St Joseph Evans and Vanishing Washingon, plus a Wilton branch schedule from Muscatine and back with multiple daily departures and arrival times.
Train schedule for Muscatine North & South by Co effective April 20 1902 at noon. Lists departures from Muscatine Roundhouse Fruitland Grandview Wapello Elrick Junction and connections with B B R N and Iowa Central for Peoria Monmouth Oskaloosa Grinnell Marshalltown Mason City Minneapolis St Paul. Includes Saturday and Monday service with connections and notes from Charles Howard General Agent.
Listing of daily and Sunday train times for northbound and southbound service from Elrick Junction including No 3 St Paul Express No 5 Mason City Mail No 25 Way Freight No 6 Peoria Mail No 4 Peoria Express and No 16 Way Freight Also notes coupon tickets to the United States Canada and Mexico with contact details for A B Cutts and G L Seevers.
Stated sailings list steamers Helen Blair W Young Jr in Davenport and Helen Blair W Young Jr in Burlington with specific days and times. W A Blair manager and W G Block agent provide contact number 49 for further information.
The Diamond Jo Line lists northbound and southbound departures from Muscatine with connecting legs to St Louis and St Paul. Steamer Dubuque and Steamer Quincy offer August and September sailings with times from 7:00 a m and 11:30 a m, plus onward legs to St Louis by 3 00 to 4 00 pm the next day.
Keokuk Iowa August 27 Justice of the Peace W H Van Vleet ruled last winter’s act allowing charitable societies to take neglected or abused children unconstitutional. He ordered a baby returned to its mother and opened the path for district court appeal. The charity secretary remains jailed as habeas corpus actions unfold.
The Pelican a steel hull built in Dubuqne Iowa by Iowa Iron Works slid from the ways with about 3000 spectators. She outranks the Sprague as the largest inland water vessel, at 263 feet long and 52½ feet wide. Upper works, boilers, and machinery to be installed here.
Thousands of veterans attended a soldiers day rally at the Iowa state fair in Des Moines. Senator J P Dol liver and Governor Cummins spoke as J J Stucker of Des Moines presided, with music by a sixty piece orchestra from Mitchellville Girls' Industrial School.
The Rock Island system plans a new electric lighted line to the lake region of northern Iowa with routes from Ruthven or Sibley toward Spirit Lake and Okoboji. A St Louis extension via Morris to Bloomington Lincoln and Springfield is considered. Heavy rails and improved equipment, including electric lighting, are being pursued for faster, safer service.
National and Western League results report Chicago over Baltimore and Boston over St Louis. Other ties include Washington edging Detroit and Philadelphia beating Cleveland. National League games feature New York defeating Cincinnati and Pittsburg sweeping Boston. Western and Three State Leagues show multiple city matchups with varied margins.
Government weather bureau report details unfavorable conditions east of the Rockies with cool spells moist central valleys and drought in the cotton belt. Ohio Valley and southern Mid Atlantic coast show fair maturing crops while the northern corn belt awaits warmth. Iowa and central Illinois report corn lodging from local storms.
The transfer of patients from the Independence asylum for the insane to the new Cherokee hospital was completed yesterday. Eighteen counties in the district are now tributary to the Cherokee facility and 308 patients were moved with Drs Doolittle and Boyle and twenty attendants. Six coaches were used.
Ottumwa reports a gang robs women and blasts the S. V. Sampson drug store in Agency. The safe is blown open and stock wrecked, a watch taken while several hundred dollars hidden in the store remain undiscovered. Town terrorized by an unknown gang.
Cedar Falls Iowa Aug 27 R E B Santee oil inspector names Fr Jackson of the Cedar Falls Record as his deputy Jackson had been a candidate for the post.
The speaker recalls using a split plug of tobacco wrapped around a horse’s bit to make an old buckskin sick with stomach discomfort, quickly quelling its temper. Joe Trigg is referenced in the reminiscence.
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