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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1902
Page
5
Daily service except Sunday with morning and evening trains. The schedule lists a 8:40 a.m. departure from Montezuma and a 7:10 p.m. return. Agent M. Gould coordinates travel arrangements.
The document lists eastbound and southwest routes with numbers and times. It includes through services to Kansas City El Paso City of Mexico and California, and notes changes to routes via Evans Denver and Kansas City. The Wilton branch timetable shows Muscatine Wilton departures and arrivals at specific times.
Muscatine North and South By Company publishes a timetable effective April 20 1902 at noon. It shows No 3 No 1 trains from Muscatine to Roundhouse Fruitland Grandview Wapello Elrick Jet and connections with BCR and N and Iowa Central. Details include western and eastern connections and daily Saturday and Monday schedules with arrival times and termini. Charles Howard General Agent.
Iowa Central lists train numbers and times for north and south routes from Elrick Junction including the St Paul Express, Mason City Mall, Peoria Mall, Peoria Express and two Way Freight services. Coupon tickets are available to all points in the United States, Canada and Mexico with contact details for A. B. Cutts in Minneapolis and G. L. Seevers at Elrick Junction.
Fairport Iowa items record many residents visiting Muscatine Davenport and Pleasant Prairie. road work improves local driving. Feustel and Reeves families travel for business and social visits. pottery shipments to Monmouth and other small-town movements noted.
In Fairport Ridge Iowa on October 18 Mr Smith of Muscatine paints John Kemper’s new residence nearing completion. Locals Adam Brossart works on mo lassas, Fred Miller Jr and family visit Kemper, and Adolf Leudtke with Miss Caillie Hagermann spend time at Kemper home. Edith Kemper visits parental house. Dance at Brossart’s draws crowd. Happenings include corn fodder hauling, sugar cane stripping, Kemper shopping trip to Muscatine, and school term No. 4 closing for vacation. Edith Hansen improves from illness.
Real estate transfers list shows multiple property deeds from Anna Page et al to J Risley Reuling et al and others in Muscatine. Entries include lot and block designs in Gordon's add Park Place and Ogilvie's add, with various undivided interests and partial mill sites. Also notes a short historical paragraph on the origin of the term bucket shop in finance.
A writer contrasts hat rituals across countries from China to America noting ground salutes in China, hat tipping in Russia and Berlin, minimal head coverings in Paris and London, and Americans who keep hats on. The piece ends claiming all civilized nations still honor women with courtesy.
A former Chinese minister to England's secretary publishes a book asserting global stereotypes, stating Americans will say anything, English will eat anything, Italians will sing anything, French will dance any measure, and Russians will covet anything.
The ordinance sets grade elevations for Park Avenue from Boone to Monroe and intersecting streets, defines sectioned elevations on Grant and Washington streets, and repeals conflicting ordinances. It also assigns duties and fees for the City Sexton for burials and his ex officio police status with a $600 annual salary.
The ordinance prohibits operating any vehicle propelled by gasoline steam electricity or similar power on Muscatine streets without a bell or gong and a lamp after dusk. It requires sounding the bell at intersections and when approaching others. Speed is limited to eight miles per hour and operators must maintain control and stop if a horse is frightened. Violators face misdemeanor penalties. Signed KK SB McNutt with Attest Mayor.
An ordinance repeals Section 11 of Chapter 35 of the devised ordinances of 18 percent and enacts a substitute. The City Sexton must attend the cemetery at all hours when called, dig and prepare graves at least six feet deep, maintain a burial register with names, times, ages, residences, and lot numbers, ensure proper grave filling, and report monthly and in March on all prior reports, including any enclosure damage.
Public notice states the Registers of Election for Muscatine will register voters on October 23, 24 and November 1, 1902 from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. at ward sites Excelsior hose house City hall Rescue hose house and Relief hose house. Election day session on November 4 1902 allows late registration for absentees.
State Bank and Trust Co. Banking and exchange. Corner lawn avenue and Second St. Muscatine la.
Hershey State Bank of Muscatine Iowa lists W Francis President Henry Jayne Vice President G Burnett Cashier and directors Sara Hershey Eddy Mira Hershey Pp W Francis Henry Jayne L G Burnett offering real estate loans four percent interest on time deposits. First National Bank led by C G Stein President Jae Vice President capital fifty thousand dollars surplus fifty thousand nine hundred dollars with directors S G Stein D v Jackson J B Dougherty Chas Page J Carskaddan F P Sawyer S M Hughes offering safety deposit vault boxes for rent.
Officers listed J Carskaddan president J B Dougherty vice president and Chas Page cashier. Capital of eighty thousand dollars. Four percent interest paid on deposits. Real estate loans specialty at low rates and favorable terms. Located at First National Bank Building.
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