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Newspaper
Dubuque Sunday Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1900
Page
7
The supplement details Herald night school offerings for working youths and adults. Courses cover bookkeeping and finance, elementary mathematics, mechanics, English and correspondence, and study notes with weekly solutions. Financial figures show private-use funds, bank balances, and distribution amounts.
The text outlines problem results on entering transactions, debt notes, and deposits with specifics on B and A shares. It discusses closing personal accounts, renewals, and how to handle notes, protest charges, and bills receivable. It also lists several numerical answers across math problems including areas, volumes, and weights.
A compact entry lists cities for Lesson No 66 including Paris Constantinople St. Petersburg Bombay Liverpool Melbourne Rio Janeiro San Francisco New Orleans with a mismatched numbering. Lesson No 56 provides answers for items including 28-Bl $180.58 $21,3313 24 days and $661.24, followed by a placeholder a) for an unfinished item.
A fragmented numerical record lists allocations, quantities, and shares across items A through E, including acreage like 13910 and 12840 acres, pounds amounts, profits, and durations such as 9 weeks and 11 weeks. It also notes proportionate divisions, daily rates, and specific sums like $75 and $64.80, with scattered totals and percentages.
Otis Skinner, arriving with fifteen actors for The Liars at the Burtis, defends theater censorship and laments Sapho style productions. He praises wholesome plays like The Old Homestead and The Prisoner of Zenda, contrasts public taste with sensational pieces, and expresses optimism for Davenport audiences tonight.
An advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure catarrh at all stages, a constitutional disease. It states the medicine works internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces, building up the constitution and aiding nature. The makers offer one hundred dollars to any who fails to cure, and encourage sending testimonials.
In Berne Switzerland on March 10 the band reports that arbitrators have issued the Delagoa Bay arbitration judgment. The indemnity to be paid by Portugal remains to be decided and will be communicated to the involved parties shortly.
Attention stockmen. Shave for sale 53 head two year old stock steers. Contact Wm Neume at 615 Lincoln Avenue for details.
Washington March 10. State Department expects a possible extension of time for ratification of the French reciprocity treaty. Officials push to act this session to aid American exhibitors at the Paris exposition and to counter German trade pressures. The administration discusses retaliatory measures including a heavy discriminatory tax on shipping from countries that unjustly discriminate against American goods.
An old medical ad touts Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar as a fast soothing remedy for coughs and lung pains. It claims quick cures and denies disagreeable taste, with sales through druggists and mentions Pike's Toothache Drops curing in one minute.
A church directory lists First Church of Christ Scientist Temple Hall corner Ninth Locust with 11 am service and 10 am Sunday school. Presbyterian at Eleventh Locust with 11 am and 7:30 pm services and youth meeting. St Luke's Methodist at Main Twelfth with 11 am and 7:30 pm services and leagues. Second Presbyterian Thirteenth Locust with 11 am and 7:30 pm sermons. St John's Fourteenth Main with worship and prayers. Congregational Sunday School at 9:45 am and 11 am service. Scientist Church Temple Hall Ninth Locust with 10 am Sunday school and 11 am 7:30 pm services.
Washington March 10 unease in the west over proposed public land law revisions. The house committee on public lands adopted a Mondell Wyoming resolution to lay on the table all bills aiming at general cession of public domain to states or territories or general leasing of grazing land.
Chicago and New York markets opened with mixed changes on March 10. Sugar advanced over a point while Metropolitan declined. railroads and specialties showed demand though overall trading remained light. The bank statement later indicated declines in surplus reserve and deposits, while profits supported a firm close across the list.
Charles L Woodward aged 36 years 6 months will be buried at Linwood Monday afternoon at 2 o clock at the family residence 2044 White street Friends invited. Ellen Mullen aged 75 died Friday March 9 at 10 p m funeral Monday 9 o clock to St Patrick church then to Key West cemetery Friends invited.
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