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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1909
Page
23
Muscatine promotes itself via a booster train inviting visitors to Pearl City. The campaign highlights local hospitality and a popular twenty five cent meal, featuring Jake the face as the welcome emblem.
Muscatine offers very low shipping rates with extensive facilities. River routes via the Mississippi and Missouri give favorable eastward rates, while rail connections on Rock Island Milwaukee and Muscatine North South support frequent freight and passenger service. Multiple lines provide direct Chicago and southwest shipments and strong intercity connections.
Muscatine’s new post office on Fourth Street and Iowa Avenue is nearing first class designation as annual receipts approach $40,000. Postmaster McNutt cites three years of rising totals, with $34,487.14 in 1902, $27,921.83, and $43,744.67, showing an $5,822.84 year rise and signaling continued growth in a city with strong mercantile trade.
Senator Beveridge lauds a southern congressman’s savoir-faire noting a banquet mishap when a waiter spilled thick soup down the back. The congressman allegedly kept his composure, accepting the moment with a restrained remark.
Muscatine features Weed's Park a 63 acre riverside enclave with graves of old Indian braves giant trees wildflowers and a bluff overlook of the Mississippi. Electric Park in the north park hosts Chautauqua events concerts vaudeville and nightly illuminated displays drawing large crowds. The Citizens' Railway and Light Co funds grand lighting and a noted clubhouse with a veranda and balconies offering river park and city views.
Report from Elsbury Missouri Democrat notes a large catch at Dark and Fish lakes east of town last week. Fishermen used jig spears through holes in the ice to spear or scoop fish when ice grew thick, then cut holes to haul them out with a scoop shovel.
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