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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1902
Page
6
Daily service from Montezuma at 9:00 a m except Sunday and return arrivals at 7:10 p m and 6:00 p m timetable shows passenger freight details with M Gould as agent.
The timetable lists eastbound and southwestbound train numbers with departure and arrival times, routes via Kansas City and St. Joseph, and notes on service changes. It also includes updates for limited vestibule trains between Chicago and Denver, through trains to Kansas City and to El Paso City of Mexico and California, and a Wilton branch schedule between Muscatine and Wilton with multiple daily stops.
Train schedule for Muscatine routes effective April 20 1902 showing No 1 and No 3 from Muscatine Roundhouse Fruitland Grandview Wapello Elrick Jet and connecting trains. Details include arrival and departure times for both directions and connections with Iowa Central and BCRN services. Charles Howard is listed as General Agent.
Daily and Sun train services listed for routes to St Paul Mason City Peoria and Way Freight with times in evening and afternoon. Coupon tickets are sold to all points in the United States Canada and Mexico through agents A B Cutts and G L Seevers at Minneapolis and Elrick Junction Iowa for rates and folders.
East Buffalo Illinois reports health remains good as residents share visits and local events. Annie Braun returns from Iowa with relatives well. Miss Louie Murdock wins popular favor with 240 votes and silverware prize. The town sees visits from Mrs Emma Murdock and Gusta Snell while Joseph Boney Jr. travels to Illinois City on business and W C Kimball family upgrades include a woven wire fence and farm improvements.
Apples are selling from 25 to 75 cents per bushel in West Chester Iowa. Grush sold his Jersey cow to Charley Shipton for 30 dollars. The M W A lodge has about 32 members and meets weekly. Mrs J Grush returns from Lenmark Illinois. The Presbyterians may paint their church soon. The Baptist social at J B Crayne home Monday night Oct 13 was well attended with Rev Howell present. Ice cream was served at a good time. A singing class of 20 meets Fridays at W E Auter’s home. The Baptist church has funds to add a 16 by 20 foot addition.
Miss Lulu Murray and Miss Josephine Havenhill served as Columbus Junction callers Saturday. Mr and Mrs Bailey Murray welcomed a son born Monday Oct 13. Local youths attended a Columbus City dance Friday night. Mrs Hannah McKinley visited relatives in Wapello last week. Frank Sellers of near Wapello visited Cairo home folks over Sunday. Orson Johnston of Elrick visited the Patterson home west of Cairo Sunday. Walter and Ora Martin were in Wapello last week. Mrs Della Marshall returned home from Newport after extended visit. No preaching Sunday due to bad weather. Mrs James Maddux and daughter Lillie Adyl spent two days at the Mewcherter home. Rev Charles Blanchard and daughter Ethel Pontzins with Jessie Stone Frank Ives and Agnes Walker were callers at J L Murray's Sunday.
Iowa Central Railway announces tickets to bona fide landseekers at one fare plus 2.00 to Minnesota and North Dakota homeseekers territory. Tickets valid for 21 days from any Tuesday. For details, contact Iowa Central ticket agents.
Frank Roth and family relocate to a newly purchased home at the corner of Tenth and Cypress streets. Miss Addie Nagle rents rooms near her dressmaking customers. Local items note illnesses, farm incidents, a theft recovered, and regional visits with social updates.
The Baptist church youth will hold a neck tie supper at the church on Friday night to raise funds for the minister. Rev. E L Shepherd moves Sunday services to 3 pm at Pine Bluff. Miss Beulah Miller and students host a box supper at the school house next Tuesday evening inviting all to attend.
Oct 16 report from Mannon lists births in Mason and Muhlenberg families and multiple visits. A son born to Mr. and Mrs. J Leonard Mason last week. Arthur Muhlenberg welcomed a son Oct 13. Local social events include an Epworth League musicale and various trips to Monmouth Shenandoah and Chicago.
The text argues against the idea that medicines purify blood or renew tissues. It states digestion depends on wholesome food and pepsin, praising Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets for supplying digestive principles. Regular use after meals is claimed to prevent and remove indigestion, with claims of high digestion capacity.
Miss Ellen Burrill of Lynn Massachusetts was struck in the left eye by a sliced golf ball on Southfields grounds Salem last Saturday. Surgeons performed an operation and removed the eye to save the sight of the other. examination showed the force burst the eyeball, necessitating removal.
Galesburg Illinois October 17 1920 The Boyer Broom company is invited to join a broom manufacturers combine with five million dollars in capital led by promoter W A Shepard of Syracuse New York The move aims to boost exports but Boyer fears convict labor and union leaders worry it could end the union label.
Muscatine reports ample first class hay and abundant grass despite prior shortages. Second timothy and clover crops thrive, with 8 to 10 dollar per ton prices and potential fall declines. News notes a theft of two thousand dollars in express packages in Cedar Rapids with no clues.
The record shows corn at 65 cents, oats at 30 to 32.5 cents, oats for oat meal mill at 24 to 30 cents, wheat at 50 to 51 cents, rye 30 to 40 cents, barley 35 to 40 cents. New hay at 9 to 10 dollars, baled hay 12 to 14 dollars, Illinois bottom hay 5 dollars per bale, hides 6 cents, fresh eggs 20 cents.
Fragmentary note shows a playful exchange about a game mishap. It references Jinks and a rival, with taunts and self deprecating humor. The text hints at sporting rivalry and spirited banter rather than a concrete event or result.
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