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Newspaper
Dubuque Sunday Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1900
Page
14
Paris designers shrink from early novelties and favor concealment to avoid copying abroad. Midseason hats favor leghorn shapes with pastel roses and foliage, while red dominates color trends from claret to pink. Pink gowns and outdoor wraps rise in popularity as fall approaches. Lady Merritt
A donor imposes a 100 year open date on a mysterious package placed in the Library of Congress safe. Four men moved it, and Librarian Putnam and Chief Clerk Alvord attest its contents are unknown. theories range from priceless manuscripts to ancient stone artifacts.
The article advises serving salad twice daily with neatly dressed portions and varied garnishes. It lists ideas such as cold peas, sliced beans, chopped tomato and cucumber, beets, chopped parsley with cauliflower, and asparagus, as preferred accompaniments.
Washington abandons the city’s lack of a playground with a southeastern reservation converted for kids. Football posts, a baseball diamond, hydrants and drainage were added under Col. Bingham’s supervision. The project was funded by a philanthropist who remains unnamed.
William Kerr president of Adams County Bank Hastings Neb received word from the Denver mint that the so called gold brick bought for 13000 dollars from a stranger at Leavenworth Kansas is copper. The brick was handed to Kerr by a man claiming to be an old mining partner of Albert Kerr a cousin of the banker. Kerr vouched to Leavenworth June 3 with the stranger to have the brick drilled by an Indian assistant. The sample assayed in Kansas City showed copper content and Kerr sent the brick to the First National Bank in Denver for safekeeping and appraisal.
A. Hyde of Cleveland proposes the Indikil system a decimal weight and measure scheme using inches as base. The inch becomes in ten inches a id and 100 inches an in with larger terms squin squid and squil for areas. An ad ak al denote weights of water amounts and their fractions. Engle shot a bald eagle on Virginia timber lands near Red Oak Knob. The eagle measured seven feet two inches across its wings and wore a steel trap and five foot chain on a leg.
A Dubuque advertisement extols Dr F A Seeman a dual trained physician and pharmacist with a Roentgen X ray machine. It cites rapid stone detection in the bladder and cures for catarrh deafness piles and nervous disorders backed by patient testimonials and dates in 1893 1898.
The advertisement promotes treatment for epilepsy nervous prostration and women’s disorders with no mercury or potash drugs. It claims cures for syphilis and skin diseases, offers electrical hair and mole removal, and invites distant patients to write or send a symptom blank. Free confidential consultation from Lincoln Block at Eighth and Locust.
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