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Newspaper
Dubuque Sunday Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1900
Page
15
A Boston Budget style note surveys foulard silks in pastel tones, beaded trims, velvet garments, and two color cloth outfits. It highlights velvet dominance, two tone cloth gowns, embroidered lace, new plaited skirts, drop earrings, pois de chevre fabrics, and repurposed lace in accessories and trims.
A notice announces Jas F Coffee and associates handling bill posting and distribution in Dubuque City. The ad lists motto A place for every bill and every bill in its place and names the U S and Canada Associated Bill Posters as organizing bodies.
A Philadelphia Inquirer item recounts Mr. Simms shopping with his wife. He endures delays while she buys, but explodes at corset discussion, insisting only one stays can be worn, prompting guards and the wife to flee the scene.
A vintage instruction describes preparing baked apples with rice. Core apples, leave a half inch shell, half fill with cooked rice, and prepare a syrup with water cinnamon and maple sugar. Bake in a pan until tender per Good Housekeeping guidance.
A New York Sun analysis notes Hawaii's 1897 census of 109 000 and post annexation trade boosts its claim to territorial status. It compares Hawaii with Alaska and other territories, arguing population growth under stable government prompts rapid development and eventual statehood.
A Baltimore American recollection recounts a tale of a duel risked for honor in a clubhouse yard. The narrator reveals firing blanks with pistols during a staged confrontation, leading to shock and disarmament, and the decision never to carry a pistol again.
In dry southern forests an experienced hunter relies on tapping a cottonwood or willow for water. He finds a vein in the tree that yields clear, carbonated water with a sulfurous taste, under pressure. A Tennessee island dispute used a tapped stump to prove annual growth rings, but the court did not accept the testimony.
The article notes color use in medicine, citing red light for measles and smallpox. It claims Jean Gaddesden cured Henry I’s son by surrounding him with scarlet clothing and red decor, with the record noting facial scarring avoided, cited from Scientific American.
A short aphorism from the Chicago Daily News notes that a miser can endure any climate, implying thrift as a portable virtue. No specific events, persons, or organizations are cited.
A blend of shop peddler tricks and optical wonders appears in a Detroit Free Press fragment. It notes a rat trap and other improvised devices, plus a description of the Fan Morgan mirage seen between Calabria and Sicily.
An advertisement touts Dr Seemann a graduate physician and pharmacist with an X ray machine claimed to be the west of Chicago. It cites patient testimonials from Dubuque Iowa praising cures of catarrh deafness piles nervous disorders and other maladies.
An advertisement offers treatment for epilepsy nervous prostration and women’s ailments including bearing down pains weak backs lumbago misted with spelling errors. It claims removal of hair and moles by electricity and promises confidentiality and multilingual correspondence. Office in Lincoln Block corner Eighth Locust with stated hours and Sunday service.
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