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Newspaper
Dubuque Sunday Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1900
Page
2
Social circles report a week of gatherings and charitable efforts in Dubuque. Mrs Wright hosts cards, clubs plan dances at local venues, and the Crescent and Sunshine Circle support hospital work while preparing a charity ball and Christmas program benefiting students and patients.
A list of names including Dale Shaw Mae Henney Jessie Kult Marle Powers Aliee Powers IXadle Caserley Stella O Regan Retta Brennan Francee Wood and others. The fragment mentions Santa Claus on the Train and a Christmas soccer chance with many community members named.
The Friday Music Club presented its thirty ninth recital at the Y M C A Friday afternoon with performances of Italian composers and classical pieces. Miss Lagen, Mrs Sweater, Miss Jens, Miss Irish, and Miss Grant performed works by Donizetti, Rossini, and others, including Overture from Tancredi and Abide With Me Arr by Millard. The program concluded with a next recital scheduled for January 11 at 3 o'clock under St. Luke's vested chair.
Items of Interest urge early Christmas buying to save money and avoid rush. Shoppers can enjoy planning, better selection, and less crowding as stores advertise a broad Holiday Gifts display across Iowa.
Curlatings presents bought now are packed at once and delivered any day you come. Overstocked on a book rack style from a large exclusive wholesale maker. offer price about half retail. Oak, 12 feet shelf space, occupies two feet square, $5 wholesale, $5.60 retail. Also piano and phonograph bargains, cards, and records with easy payments.
Regina offers compact music boxes promoting space saving on home piano use. The ad touts a table model for small rooms and larger boxes for minimal floor impact, bundled with a payment plan and various price options. It highlights 12 tune disks and installment terms, inviting customers to view the Regina Music Box at Mach Music Box.
Novelty items described as dainty and pretty in Florentine style offer a full alabaster selection of classical dusts and figure groups. Poets and musicians figures range in price from 50 cents to 5 dollars, with measures from inches to 24 inches in height.
Four size set of Chinese face masks offered as wall decor to give an Oriental tone to the hall or den. Prices range from 60 cents to 4.75 dollars.
An ad touts Hurlbut’s Stationery offering a dainty tinted gift box in fancy design containing one two and three quires. Described as both practical and pretty, the gift box is priced from 50e to 2.00.
A promotional note extols Nightingale Mandolins and Guitars for their superb construction and vibrant tone. It describes a patented double sounding board boosting volume, with prices from $15 to $50, and urges readers to compare the instrument’s quality to other concert-sized guitars. Also hints at a fall wave of new books and lists several popular titles from the December Bookman.
Choirmaster Pontius offers morning and evening sacred music with Olive Wheat Genevieve Wheat Grant Schmitt Brackett and choir. Selections include Organ Preludes Elevation Berceuse and Postlude Royal Procession plus Magnificat There Is a Land of Pure Delight and God of Abram Praise.
In Harper’s Ferry Iowa a village on the Mississippi coast, John A Joyce visited after the Civil War. He taught at Paint Rock church in 1865, later studied law in Senator Allison’s office, then moved to Washington. Joyce wrote reminiscences and poems in a volume titled Jewels from Memory, praising Allison and Col. Senderson, and recounting meetings with George D. Prentice and others. The piece notes scenic views and Joyce’s warm memory of his early teaching days.
In a Washington letter, Hon Celso Cesar Moreno ex prime minister of Hawaii and Trans Pacific cable promoter extols Peruna as a safe reliable remedy for catarrh and a tonic that builds a person up, urging friends nationwide to try the medicine.
A fragment claiming Peruna cures catarrh wherever located features a Morristown Pa resident praising his daughter Malinda Royer who regained hearing after using Peruna. The letter extols the remedy for catarrh as common, curable, and beneficial, with testimonials from W M Holland of Hartwell Ga and a request for free catarrh literature from The Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio.
A quarrel over authorship ends with Joyce asserting his brainchild has circulated for thirty years under plagiarists such as Exchange and Anonymous. Prentice ridicules him, declaring Joyce crazy, while Joyce laments being scapegoated for others’ misdeeds.
The Mississippi Valley Poultry Association votes to hold a Poultry and Pet Stock show at City Hall on Monday December 1. The event features chickens ducks geese turkeys rabbits ferrets guinea pigs and Belgian hare exhibits with electric lighting and low admission. Judges will explain breeding and scoring with pages of tips for visitors and children welcome. The superintendent promises care for all animals on display.
The Dutch queen hosted a private dinner at The Hague yesterday evening with Mr. Kruger and Dr. Leyds seated beside her. They spoke for half an hour in the drawing room on agricultural and ethnological conditions in South Africa while the rest of the court stood by in waiting roles. Special lamps priced at Althauser's.
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