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Around Burlington: Jim Jordon found adventure, fulfillment on the Mississippi River Bob Hansen for The Hawk Eye At times it must have seemed Burlington’s Jim Jordon was a living being spawned of the Mississippi River. No less that the wild birds that wandered its length or the lumbering fish that patrolled its depths, the river defined this accomplished sportsman. City directories and employment records of the early 1900s might have listed Jim’s occupation as traveling salesman. But that was not the real Jim Jordon. Those trips, as a representative of a Skinner-Lowden preserving company, and the business meetings were simply the price he paid to live the life he loved on the Mississippi. Trips to Europe, New York or some small out-of-the-way town were, to Jim, just a way of marking time until he could return to the river. ....
Around Burlington: Lack of proper food storage created challenges for early riverboat cruises and their passengers Bob Hansen for The Hawk Eye It wasn’t necessarily the exploding boilers and the scalding steam. Nor was it the sudden unplanned disappearance beneath the waves that got you. The late-night cut-purses that roamed the Texas deck and the inevitable gambler with his shaved cards could be considered only a minor annoyance. But where the real risk laid in late-19th century Upper Mississippi River boat cruises was with the undercooked chickens, the long-dead pork and the questionable vegetables. The bugs, bacterium, pathogens and spirochete that romped through the meals served on excursion boats were capable of sending even the stoutest of constitutions on a one-way trip across the river Styx. ....
Around Burlington: Horse's death, muddied ownership spurred a lengthy dispute over its disposal cost thehawkeye.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehawkeye.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Around Burlington: Circuses provided regular entertainment for 19th and early 20th century Burlington thehawkeye.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehawkeye.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bob Hansen for The Hawk Eye History books try to ignore it and no where in Burlington is there a suitable plaque raised to those that dealt with it. But before the start of the 20th century, our forebears were fighting an often disgusting battle to keep the problem in check. Simply put, the problem was poop. Human waste, excrement, night soil. And it was for good reason that early Burlington was cursed with the nickname “Turd Town.” The city’s natural drainage lines, a lack of laws and horrible hygiene habits converted the streets and alleys of the “Lower Town” into a quagmire of waste animal and otherwise. Hawkeye Creek was an open sewer, raw sewage floated in the river and the levee was considered a public lavatory. ....