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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1902
Page
2
Passenger service runs daily except Sunday with trips to Montezuma and arrivals from Montezuma. Freight departures and arrivals listed with times 7:15 a.m. 7:40 a.m. 7:10 p.m. 6:00 p.m. Agent M. Gorlp.
Rail timetable lists several passenger and freight trains on the C R and P line with routes via Kansas City St Joseph and Evans. Trains 7 8 15 16 29 30 operate between Chicago Denver Evans and beyond with several changes to daily and Sunday schedules and a Wilton Muscatine branch timetable showing specific leave and arrival times.
Schedule details show lines from Muscatine to Roundhouse Fruitland Grandview Wapello and Elrick Jet with arrival and departure times for No. 3 No. 1 No. 2 No. 4 trains effective April 20 1902 and notes on connections with IA Central and C R & N lines at Wapello Elrick Junction and Muscatine. Charlies Howard serves as General Agent.
The Steamer Helen Blair sails Monday and Friday at 6 30 a m Sunday 7 a m. The Steamer W J Young Jr sails Monday Wednesday and Friday at 7 p m.
Market report notes oats ruined by rain and poor onion crop while corn, melons, apples, and tomatoes show mixed results. Corn needs sunshine to avoid price rises. onions rot, watermelons and muskmelons vary in price. Hogs edge lower. overall prices listed for grains, produce, and live stock in Muscatine area.
A dense catalog of daily goods with prices for staples and produce including sugar, coffee, butter, lard, bacon, cheese, fruit, vegetables, fish, and fuel. Items feature varied units and quantities such as pounds, quarts, pecks, dozen and barrels with prices from multiple suppliers.
Washington report states Secretary James Wilson may resign to head Iowa State College of Agriculture at Ames, but he denies the claim. Trustees had not decided on a successor and no campaign was under way, while Prairie Jim of Adair County also refutes the rumor.
A Bradford county man recounts using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to complete a bicycle trip and recover from a dysentery episode. He credits two doses before and during travel and a later cure with one dose. The remedy is sold by all druggists.
The Chicago Rock Island and El Paso railroad company filed notice in Santa Fe that it will raise its capital stock to 4 million dollars. It has issued bonds of 25 000 dollars per mile of single track and 800 dollars per mile for equipment, plus 15 000 dollars per mile for a second track.
Four more fast trains run daily from Chicago Union Station to New York via Pennsylvania Short Lines. The special leaves at noon, the Limited at 5 30 p m, and other through trains at 9 95 a m, 12 95 noon, 3 p m and 11 45 p m. For schedules contact H R Dering A G P Agt 248 South Clark Chicago.
A public school student explains the difference between balance and remainder. The pupil notes you can say a man lost his balance and fell, but not a man lost his remainder and fell.
A Sauple. Uncle and his nephew share a Parisian restaurant moment. The nephew, growing, calls the meal first rate and suggests another dinner. The exchange is reported in the Toledo Blade style.
Paper coal is a lignite found near Bonn Germany. It splits naturally in films as thin as paper, revealing its delicate structure and potential material uses.
Going North schedules list No. 3 St. Paul Express at 1:09 pm, No. 5 Mason City Mail at 11:59 am on Sundays, No. 25 Way Freight at 10:05 am Sundays. Going South shows No. 6 Peoria Mail at 2:45 pm Sundays, No. 4 Peoria Express at 5:36 am daily, No. 16 Way Freight at 1:50 pm Sundays. Coupon tickets available to all U S, Canada, and Mexico points with rates and folders from A B Cutts in Minneapolis or G L Seevers at Elrick Junction, Iowa.
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