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Newspaper
Dubuque Sunday Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1900
Page
2
Davenport Republican faces $10,000 damages from a directory publisher who claims the paper libeled him by calling his directory travel fakir. Local and regional papers debate the case, noting unreliability and errors in the directory and the publisher's tactics.
Washington directs Consul Gunmore at Tangiers to proceed to the Moroccan capital aboard a United States warship to press renewed indemnity claims for the murder of Marcus Ezaguin, a naturalized American citizen, killed in June 1900. the Kentucky may carry him from Tangiers to Mazagan near Fez.
A traveling fashion war erupts as J. Waldere Kirk, famed as the "King of Dudes," faces Frank Elsinore Jones from St. Louis over who is the true master of eye catching attire. Chicago tailors defend Kirk while St. Louis touts Jones and his twenty trunks of revelatory garments. The dispute spills into hotels, dressing rooms, and sidewalks as both cities claim the title and mock the other’s taste.
Des Moines saloonkeeper Ben E Parker, manager of over half the city’s saloons, describes buying $10,000 worth of whiskey on a winter contract from Peoria and Chicago. He says thirty-eight saloons is a large but manageable number and notes he avoids drinking himself while enforcing strict discipline among bartenders. He expects little new anti saloon activity and claims steady business through the season. The rest of the item mentions Admiral McNair’s funeral and a medicinal ad for Moffat’s Life Pills.
Notice that an instrument purporting to be the last will of T. J. Shea of Dubuque County Iowa has been opened and read. Hearing on the proof is set for December 15 1900 before the District Court of Dubuque County. Dubuque Iowa November 17 1900. Jas A Hayes Clerk District Court. By Leo F Jaeger Deputy.
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