When and What:  This is from the Twin City Line time table of June 1908. The boat shown here is the stern wheeler "Excelsior" which takes customers on a 40 mile cruise, which was quite a long distance in 1908. Yes of course 40 miles is no shorter today, but perspective changes when you can cruise 70 miles per hour across the country on an interstate highway. Remember the average person of 1908 never traveled faster in their life time than the average horse could run. Most were farmers. They usually were born, went to grammer school (one room) to the 6th grade and learned by strict discipline to read, write, and do math, got married, worked like dogs from dawn to dusk, raised kids and lived their entire lives and died all within 20 miles of where they were born. Of course the exception would be if they were immigrants.