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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1902
Page
5
The afternoon evangelist sessions show stronger results with healings including improved eyesight and internal tuberculosis issues. Attendees report deeper interest, more altar seekers, and numerous conversions as Mrs Woodworth-Etter’s meetings grow in power and attendance.
The Ping Pongs and Pearl City Panitorium baseball teams agreed to a game date after last nights challenge. Both squads feature strong players. The Ping Pongs, younger but confident, expect a competitive match with the seasoned Maroons.
Train Number Eight of the Grand Trunk Railway leaves Chicago daily at 11 05 a m bound for Detroit Mt Clemens Niagara Falls New York and Philadelphia. It offers wide vestibule coaches cafe parlor car and Pullman sleeping cars. Information and time tables available from Geo W Vaux A G P T A room 917 135 Adams St Chicago.
The remark notes that eloquence does not guarantee effective leadership. It stresses that many skilled speakers perform poorly in action, describing such individuals as wind and unsuitable for executive roles.
The two city Methodist pastors will attend the annual session of the Iowa conference in Keokuk from September 17 to 22. About 225 ministers and their wives are expected, with Bishop John W. Hamilton presiding. The article recounts his career and notes Iowa’s conference divisions and historical split into Upper Iowa and Iowa conferences.
The Crocker Brigade and 35th Iowa infantry set reunions with General J. H. Stibbs as orator. Col. J. H. Munroe to secure him. city hall meeting presided by Munroe. Committees named for hotel rates reception music and venue arrangements. Also notes on Iowa conference divisions placing Knoxville in Iowa conference and Davenport and Iowa City in Upper Iowa.
A Webster City correspondent relays a Freeman Tribune yarn about A Bige planting shallow spuds and yielding a monstrous crop. A passing stranger in a boat dives for a green potato mistaken for a watermelon, capsizes the boat, and nearly drowns before the tuber is tossed away.
A party of Milwaukee Road officials led by President A J Earling visited Davenport on a morning inspection tour aboard their private train, staying from 10 30 until noon. The group included W J Underwood H W Earling and W R Morrison.
A signal light on the steamer Vivian fell to the deck while tied at the port last night and burst, spilling oil that ignited on the floor. Flames illuminated the deck briefly before subsiding as the oil burned away. no material damage occurred.
A detailed listing of current market prices for grain produce flour live stock poultry and fruits. Items include corn at 63 to 66 cents oats at local markets 4s8d to 5dvc and at mill 48 cents wheat 65 to 70 cents rye 55 cents barley 55 65 cents hay and timothy prices cattle hogs calves sheep lambs turkeys onions potatoes apples and various vegetables with per unit and per sack rates.
Prices list leafy greens and root vegetables with home grown and southern options. Items include lettuce five cents per bunch onions five cents per bunch beets six cents per bunch peck prices for turnips peas and string beans three to thirty cents and more. Also seafood prices such as cat fish twelve and a half cents per pound and salmon ten cents per pound. Fuel costs show soft coal three twenty five to four dollars a ton and cordwood five dollars with Hocking Valley coal at five dollars per ton.
River forecast ending 8 a m Friday July 25 1902 notes the Mississippi stage will fall slightly between Dubuque and Davenport. The report lists gauge readings and conditions across towns along the river.
The listing outlines passenger and freight trains Nos 32 66 30 15 16 29 7 8 85 86 with times and service notes. It describes limited vestibule service between Chicago and Denver via Kansas City and St Joseph and changes in daily or Sunday operations.
Train schedule issued by Muscatine North and South by Co. lists True Taste service taking effect April 9 1902 at noon. Details include South Bound trains No 1 and No 3 via B C R N routes with connections to Burlington Elrick Junction Oskaloosa Grinnell Marshalltown Mason City Minneapolis St Paul and local east and west stations. Saturday and Monday special departures connect with Iowa Central trains and Peoria Monmouth and local east routes. Charles Howard is General Agent.
Iowa Central lists trains at Patrick Junction including the St. Paul Express No 8 and the Mason City Mail No 5 with Sun departures, Peoria Mall No 6 and Peoria Express No 4 plus Way Freight No 25 and No 16. Coupon tickets available to US Canada and Mexico through Geo S Batty in Marshalltown and L Seevera in Elrick Junction.
Davenport steamer Helen Air and W J Young Jr run Monday Wednesday Friday at 6 30 a m and Sunday 7 a m. Burlington steamer Helen Blair runs Monday Wednesday Friday 8 30 p m and W J Young Jr runs Tuesday Thursday Saturday 2 4 p m. For information contact W A Blair manager or W G Block agent at telephone 49.
Timetable lists outbound trips from St Louis and St Paul to Muscatine with Diamond Jo Line steamers Dubuque and Quincy. Sailings show leave times 7 00 am and 11 30 am and arrival patterns to Muscatine and return legs to St Louis and St Paul with corresponding transfer times and second-day arrivals.
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