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Newspaper
Dubuque Sunday Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1899
Page
15
Jas F Coffee Pill Posting and distribution efforts described as reasonable. A member of Associated Bill Posters U.S. and Canada. Treasurer Iowa State Bill Posters. A place for every bill and every bill in its place.
A confused tale from Chillicothe follows Margaret Quinn who marries Lloyd Lowndes, not the man she loved, Dick Lowndes, due to twin brothers mistaken identities. The wedding ends with the bride embracing the entire Lowndes clan after the mix-up is revealed.
Experiments will test a Venezuelan shrub said to produce cures for leprosy. Samples were sent by Surgeon General Wyman to the United States. Dr. Carmichael at the U S Marine Hospital oversees Hawaii trials using Jatropha cossypifelia, noted for its toxic active principle. Reports of cures in Venezuela have circulated.
Sag Harbor resident Robert Gerlach risked losing his left eye after tying a wild pile driver to his waist and shoulder. The bird attacked with a swift bill, wounding him. the creature was then killed and the prognosis for saving the eye remains doubtful.
The Vollak Virag telegraph system achieved a 200.5 word test from New York to Chicago over about 1000 miles at 95 000 words per hour despite snow rain and weak lines. Inventors Vollak and Virag coordinated from Chicago and New York and declared the test a success. They plan to sail for Paris to continue experiments.
Rumor says Mrs Edith Kingdon Gould will perform in private Christmas theatricals at Lakewood, with the duke of Manchester as leading man. George Gould confirms a party at Georgiana Court but offers no details before plans are settled. After the holidays she may visit Lady Mary Sackville and the countess of Minto in Ottawa.
Agricultural department reports a new use for corn stalks to create a cake shaped feed mixed with blood or molasses. The product, pressed on hydraulic presses, can be shipped like bricks and used in tropic campaigns, Cuba, and southern states at ten to twelve dollars per ton cost, with nutritive value around twenty two to twenty five dollars per ton.
Entomologist Professor Herbert Osborne of Iowa explains the Hessian fly origin likely from Hessian soldiers and straw packing. The pest targets wheat rye and barley, multiplies five to six broods yearly, and spreads mainly via straw in warm weather. Natural spread is slow, but burning stubble or plowing under and rolling the ground can prevent its growth and future damage.
In the New York Zoological Garden a royal python guards a nest of eggs said to be the largest number laid by a snake in captivity. Attendants report the python, 22 feet long and 180 pounds, defends the eggs fiercely though tempted with edible lures. The eggs, first found Monday, weigh about a pound each and require heat and sand to hatch.
William Dean Howells recently visited Hamilton Ohio and at a public reception he was asked for an autograph by Rev Miss Martha A Bortel of the Universalist church. He offered to mail it. The visit included verses inscribed Thanksgiving in homage to the author.
Mrs J J Gest of Cincinnati board suggests placing a clothing receptacle at the home for the friendless. It would connect to an inside alarm bell so nurses learn immediately of a new infant left at the door. No effort would be made to identify the sender. Gest cites Paris experience and Notre Dame hospital as precedent.
A suffragist amendment will go before Oregon voters in June while a women’s association forms to oppose it. Protestors claim only a small percentage of women want the ballot, citing neglect to vote in serious elections and warning against forcing privileges like jury duty and candidacy onto others. Drinking glasses known as tumblers derive their name from round silver bowls balanced to tumble upright when tipped. English nobles’ deer parks and pride are linked to the fate of many estates avoiding sale.
George Ross of Butler County shot a mystery animal in Buck Island. The rabbit, blood red with fine fur and amber yellow eyes, may be an albino. Ross refused 20 dollars and plans to mount it for the State Horticultural Society.
A long testimony laden appeal promotes Dr. F A Seemann a German specialist with Roentgen X ray use, presenting numerous patient endorsements from Dubuque Iowa between 1893 and 1898. It touts a single operating X ray machine west of Chicago, claims of universal safety, and lists ailments from catarrh deafness to piles and nervous disorders with delivery through his Lincoln Block office.
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