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Newspaper
Dubuque Sunday Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1900
Page
3
Advertisement notes a valuable illustrated booklet titled Womanhood offering remedies for female diseases. It promises 17 cuts showing womb displacements and invites women to request it free in a plain sealed envelope from Dr. B. J. Kay of Saratoga, New York.
Senor Tamayo says reports from provinces show orderly election behavior and he plans a full cattle population survey to decide taxes or protections for cattle breeders to aid native cattle against imports. The note appears amid a broader Havana dispatch.
Brandfort May 11 reports a German named Trickman from Errfurt among prisoners of the foreign legation captured during the fighting at the Zand river. He claimed to be a journalist but was found hiding in a cactus bush with a rifle.
Government engineer Townsend approves alternate site for the Eagle Point bridge near Fish Rock and instructs Shankland to draft plans. The 300 foot span would sit beside the Iowa shore, with a 400 foot adjoining span in mid river and a possible 200 foot span on the Illinois side. Construction to begin promptly. Dubuque business interests expect benefits.
Dubuque county thirty-two strong traveled in a special car to Des Moines for the state convention where John S. Murphy was endorsed as delegate-at-large in caucus and the Third district vote. The Dubuque delegation, led by Mulgrew, enjoyed a lively trip with Bart Kane supplying provisions and a chorus aboard as the train sped home at speed.
Ellwanger Bros at 1256 Clay Street promotes the year’s most complete stock of harnesses including night and heavy harnesses, summer lap robes, trunks, satchels, valises. They urge buyers to compare market reports from The Herald for accuracy and reliability.
The jury in Dubuque county returns a verdict for Henry Oehlers in a $1,500 false imprisonment suit by George Chambers. Oehlers, a justice of the peace, had Chambers arrested for contempt after Chambers failed to answer a subpoena. The case, with multiple appeals, ends in Oehlers’s complete exoneration.
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