Traveler's Guide Notes for Muscatine Route
Daily passenger service from Montezuma except Sunday. Freight schedule shows 6:00 p m arrival and departure times. C M Gould acts as agent coordinating the line and timetable details.
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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1902
Page
10
Rail schedule notes express and branch trains to Kansas City and beyond
The timetable lists passenger trains on the C K and P Railroad with routes from Chicago to Denver via Kansas City or St. Joseph and through services to Kansas City El Paso City of Mexico and California. It also shows the Wilton Branch schedule from Muscatine to Wilton and back with daily and Sunday restrictions.
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Chicago
Denver
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Evans
Washington
el Paso
City of Mexico
California
Schedual
Wilton
Muscatine
Wilton Muscatine
Westbound Freight Schedule From Wilton Main Line
Fragmentary OCR shows a Wilton main line Westbound schedule with car numbers 21 and 41 and times around 2.04 and 10:... readings. details are incomplete with many unreadable characters and stray numbers.
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Vicente
Muscatine North and South by Co Train Timetable
Timetable effective April 20 1902 noon shows routes and times for Muscatine Roundhouse Fruitland Grandview Wapello Elrick Jet to Muscatine with No 1 2 4 83 connections to Burlington and Iowa Central. Notes list connections at Elrick Junction to Peoria Monmouth Grinnell Mason City St Paul and Minneapolis and agent Charles Howard.
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Muscatine
Roundhouse
Fruitland
Grandview
Wapello
Elrick Jet
Burlington
Iowa Central
Elrick Junction
Peoria
Monmouth
Oskaloosa
Grin
Iowa Central Schedules and Coupon Ticket Notice
The Iowa Central lists trains Going North and Going South with numbers and times including the St. Paul Express Mason City Mail Peoria Mail and Way Freight services. Coupon tickets cover United States Canada and Mexico with contact for rates and tickets through agents A B Cutts Minneapolis and G L Seevers Elrick Junction Iowa.
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St. Paul Express
Mason City Mail
Sun
Way Freight
Peoria Mail
Peoria Express
United States
Canada
Mexico
B Cutts
Minneapolis
Minn
G. L. Seevers
Elrick Junction
Iowa
How He Got A Start In Farming From Little To A Return
A 1902 narrative shows a common laborer turning to small scale farming with rented land. He rents five acres, plants onions cabbage potatoes popcorn turnips melons and cucumbers. after five months the gross reaches 465 dollars. He and his family manage without capital, then open a path for others to follow.
Farm Sayings on Crops Hogs and Hired Help
The article notes clean grainfields depend on crop rotation and sheep. It lists Wolf River apples as large and handsome yet worthless. It mentions a western lake bed yielding prime duck shooting. It says hiring practices favor a good looking hired man. It warns risk in holding hogs now and recommends selling when market ready.
Reputation versus stinginess and garden notes
The passage contrasts how a man’s reputation suffers from being thought small as from dishonesty. It then celebrates a pansy bed thriving all summer due to cool moist weather. It warns that a cornfield plagued by pocket gophers and wild morning glories should be converted to pasture promptly.
Canna Roots Ready for Next Spring Planting
Roots should now be taken up and laid on the cellar floor to dry. When dry they will be ready for planting next spring.
Garden Geraniums Provide Winter Blooms With Care
Readers are advised that geraniums blooming in the garden this summer may be lifted, potted, and if pruned properly will produce abundant blooms throughout the winter season.
Clover sod as ideal prep for crops on quarter-section farms
The report advocates clover sod as ideal soil preparation. It calls for at least twenty acres of such land to be available each year on every quarter-section farm.
Northwestern hogs chase corn amid cholera fear
A short notice forecasts that if hogs in the northwest secure all soft corn this year and avoid cholera, it would be a rare stroke of good luck for farmers.
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Northwest
Americans Seize Vast Land Front in Canadian Northwest
Some 20 000 Americans have invaded the Canadian northwest this season and have bought or homesteaded a large tract of fertile land in the region, signaling a notable shift in settlement patterns and cross border land activity.
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Canadian Northwest
Butter Imports Hit Nearly 100 Million Pounds Gate
Great Britain relies on Denmark for seven tenths of its butter imports and largely processes dairy rations from America. The piece argues this dependence should be halted.
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Great Britain
Denmark
America
Hibernal Apple Described as Hardy but Poor in Quality
The Hibernal apple is as poor as it looks to be. It may be grown where other apples cannot survive due to its extreme hardiness, though quality remains low.
Longevity of Geese Versus Hens
The text contrasts goose lifespan with hens noting geese may reach seventy years while hens age quickly, six to nine or four to five years. The comparison highlights differing usefulness and lifespans between the two birds.
Weather Delays Clover Seed Set Despite Fine Bloom
In damp cold conditions during bloom bumblebees were scarce, preventing adequate seed set on the second crop of clover despite its abundant flowers.
Ben Davis Apple Outshines Others In Market Worth
The Ben Davis apple earns more money than any other variety. It is red, large, and stores well, and remains a reliable market apple despite having the poorest quality.
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Ben Davis
Rape Field Attracts Hogs To Readied Buds
A farmer described a rape field fed with hogs grazing on tall stalks over a foot high. The plants bore buds and shoots that the hogs eagerly nipped, indicating a ready supply of forage in the field.
Quote on aging farmers and fraud dangers
A speaker laments veterans of long farm work who lose property to con men and urges more guardians for men over sixty, arguing they are easily victimized and deserve protection.
Cuban soil proves sea island cotton thrives in season
The article notes that Cuba’s soil has demonstrated the ability to produce sea island cotton in great perfection with a staple length of about 209 and a half inches and a fiber quality that elevates its land value.
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Cuba
Automobiles poised to replace horses nationwide
The traveling public must reckon with the automobile as a horse scarer. Machines will come into general use and within five years will be priced so low that common people who can afford to keep a horse will adopt them. The average horse fears these vehicles.
Native prairie grasses resist cultivation from seed
The buffalo grass and blue joint grass, the two principal native grasses of the western prairies, have never, so far as we know, been successfully propagated from seed on land under cultivation. Like other wild things, they shun civilization and disappear with the Indian, buffalo, coy ote and rattlesnake.
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Western
Prairies
Counties Grow Big Corn Yields Across Midwest and East
The latest census shows the top corn counties across Illinois Indiana and Pennsylvania. Tipton County Indiana leads with 53.7 bushels per acre as the five county average exceeds 52 bushels per acre.
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Ilinois
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Tipton County
Ind
Price Gaps in Berlin Food Market Raise Government Debate
The best beefsteak costs 44 cents a pound in Berlin, higher than 25 cents in this country. Other meats are scarce and expensive. The government policy appears to favor stock raisers in Germany by restricting cheap meat imports from this and other nations.
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Berlin
Odd Weather Spurs Unusual Crops Growth in 1902
The 1902 season shows unprecedented crop anomalies with potatoes developing nodules, corn growing unusually tall and bearing multiple ears, cabbage and celery bolting in the first year, and a second fruit crop forming on strawberries and raspberries.
Farmer quits quiet life to run for office in town
A farmer after thirty years on a peaceful farm retires to town and runs for office this fall. He explains that politics reveals deep depravity and he can hardly trust his best friends anymore.
Alfalfa and chrome grass praised for western lands
The article extols two crops, chrome grass and alfalfa, as priceless for arid western regions. It argues that where grass fails due to drought, alfalfa offers agricultural reclamation and signals broader prosperity for the area.
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Timothy
Prosperous Swede Tenant Lifts Farm Income
A Swede tenant with a large family has tilled the same farm for thirteen years, consistently earning profit for both landlord and tenant. The farm is more productive than ever, aided by liberal landlord policies, good stock and seed, and a fair crop share. Dairy and poultry on the farm provide solid income.
Government intervention shapes breeding and dairy trades abroad
The piece argues that state regulation in France controls horse breeding, limiting sires to government-registered lines and driving global demand to France. It notes Denmark’s creamery oversight and product inspection monopolizing the English market, contrasting with slower American adaptation to such government-led efficiency.
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France
A Wet Summer's Compensations
Weather in the west and northwest brought severe crop losses last summer but the abundant rains restored water power, filled springs, and revived rivers. Lakes and pastures recovered, tree growth surged, and the land dried up earlier drought effects, balancing nature despite earlier damage.
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West
Northwest Territory
Beauty and Utility in Lawn Planting
The excerpt argues for combining utility with beauty in landscape planting. It highlights Wealthy apples as attractive and useful, praises cherry trees when cared for, and notes a homeowner with productive front yard apple trees that benefit both private and public view. It urges integrating ornament and fruit production in street-facing plantings.
The Gravel Road Practical road building lesson on gravel layers
The article explains that laying gravel in two applications improves dirt roads on prairie soils. A four inch first coat allows incorporation with muck to form a solid foundation for a later four to six inch layer. With proper drainage the road will last indefinitely with minimal repairs.
New Binding Twine From Wire Grass Bog Turns Land Value Up
A new binding twine made from wire grass grown in northern peat bogs gains favor with Dakotas grain raisers over sisal or manila. It proves cheaper and transforms seemingly worthless peat bog land into valuable property, as the author recalls discovering on a former farm.
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Dakotas
Manila
What He Has To Bry The Town Man And The Farm
A town resident buys hay corn oats and poultry along with eggs milk cream butter meat vegetables fruits flour and fuel. A farm man can produce these essentials at their best while the town man sees his salary shrinking to a small sum after purchases.
A Farfetched Deliverance from a Hidden Bundle
Ethan A. Lincoln recounts the Edminton Blake murder case revealing a concealed bundle with bonds and papers found by shipwreck survivor Carl Strelitz. Edminton is released after Edna Blake’s revelation and the couple wed. The tale ends with Edminton explaining they were visiting a hotel prior to the murder, a confession avoided to preserve Edna's name.
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Edminton-Blake
Alan Edminton
Edna Blake
Blake
Edna
Edminton
Miss Blake
Mr. Blake
Carl Strelitz
Jorbert
Slippery Jim
United States
Harding
A Study in Courage and the Mechanical Soul
Enoch Trask Bidwell recounts Eben Roach and Chauncey Drew to illustrate that courage and cowardice may be brain driven rather than moral traits. Eben’s bravery shifts after a attack and Lucy Insley’s affection shifts to Drew, amid a dramatic confrontation over who is braver. Lucy, now an old maid, remains unmarried.
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Eben Roach
Chauncey Drew
Tim Branagan
Lucy Insley
Eben
Lucy
Branagan
Drew
Chauncey
Enoch Trask Bidwell
A Sociabdlie Servant
A description of a Japanese servant's etiquette and behavior when entertaining guests in his master’s absence. The servant kneels and kotos, offers five cups of tea, and maintains polite but familiar conversation, sometimes remaining in the room after the master arrives to take over.
What Answer Could She Make
A brief exchange from the Washington Star features young Elsie explaining her second helping at Mrs. Brown’s. She says she followed her mother’s rule against contradicting others and that Mrs. Brown anticipated the second helping, so she did not contradict.
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Elsie
Tit For Tat
A humorous exchange about marriage and habits. Algy quits smoking after marrying the widow, Maud notes the change, and Algy explains she stopped her weeds for him while he gave up the weed in return.
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Algy
Maud
Also Mentioned on This Page
Traveler's Guide
GB. C. R. & H.muscatine
M. Gould
P. Railroad
Muscatine North & South BY. Co
Etrick Junction
P. M. Muller
Iowa Avenue
Third Street
F. Giesentans
F. Giesenhans
East
Sireey
Alaska
New York
DY Ed
S. Trigg Rockford T Coteres Pondence Rae
Wolf River
Newport
Africa
Street
Ralph Harding
Strelitz
Ethan A. Lincoln
Feder
International Court OF Arbitration
the Hague
Fedor de Maryens
St. Petersburg
Edward Fry
British Courts of Justice
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