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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1902
Page
2
Partial OCR shows times 8:150 and 6:00 pm with references to M. Govip as agent. Details are unclear but imply an appointment or event timing. No full names or locations are readable to confirm the event.
The timetable lists passenger trains Nos. 12 8 30 and 16 east and west routes, with departures from Muscatine and Wilton, plus through services to Kansas City El Paso City of Mexico and California. It notes limited vestibule service between Chicago and Denver via Kansas City and St Joseph and daily through trains to multiple cities.
Muscatine North and South by Co timetable effective April 20 1902 at noon. Train No 3 departs Muscatine 6:00 pm for Roundhouse Fruitland Grandview Wapello Elrick Junction arriving 12:07 pm. Connections: BCRN at Wapello to Burlington and Iowa Central at Frick Junction for Peoria Monmouth east, and west to Elrick for Oskaloosa Grinnell Marshalltown Mason City Minneapolis St Paul. Train No 4 from Elrick Junction to Muscatine with stops and arrivals listed. Train No 1 connects with Iowa Central at Wapello to east. Saturdays and Mondays schedule details included. Charles Howard General Agent.
Elrick Junction lists daily and Sunday schedules for the St Paul Express Mason City Mail and Peoria Express lines. Southbound service includes Peoria Mail and Way Freight with morning and afternoon departures. Coupon tickets to US Canada and Mexico available from A B Cutts in Minneapolis or G L Seevera at Elrick Junction.
The Crocker brigade reunion at the opera house drew a large crowd of veterans and families. Gen. M’Arth ur attended as Col. Rood presided and General Stibbs read. Col. Keeler spoke and Mayor McNutt gave a welcome as the crowd heard stories and speeches in a festive camp fire setting.
Muscatine hosts Crocker brigade reunion with speeches by Col. Reed Col. Keeler and Gen. Stibbs tributes to Union sacrifice recitations and songs. The program features “Battle Hymn of the Republic” sung by students and a reading of “The Buck-Eye” with musical interludes.
A large gathering of veterans includes President Reod Mayor McNutt Col Keeler and General John McArthur with about 50 schoolchildren. The event opens with a flag hoist and reveille as Mrs J W Cheek delivers an address of welcome praising the Union cause and the flag.
In racing circles, individuals who linger near stables to gather information and sell it are known as touts.
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