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Newspaper
Dubuque Sunday Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1900
Page
2
A new Dubuque golf grounds and clubhouse opened with an informal Saturday reception. The Randall farm is leased for links, with dressings rooms and lounge spaces, and plans for social events, tournaments, and a state golf association are under way as local young society figures take interest.
Thursday afternoon from 3 to 6 honored Mrs. G W Stout of Indianapolis with a reception and dining room decorated in lavender and white fls. Twenty five invitations were issued and all were accepted. Mrs Wadley received with Mrs Brout and the Misses Wadley. Ladies poured chocolate and coffee including Mrs Myers and Mrs Chapman.
St John s Episcopal church offers a day of organ works hymns and solos by Mrs Brown Miss Williams and others followed by the Dubuque Academy of Music commencement at the Congregational church June 12 14 with the largest class to date led by graduates including Paul Jenkel Laura Kleis Jenn Steffens Georgia Nix Tucile Kelly Marjorie Wilson Clara Upson Clara Linehan John Bal and Ida M V Grant Concerto performances feature Lucile Kelly Mendelssohn and Chopin among others with Miss Clara Upson Miss Clara Linehan Miss Marjorie Wilson and Miss Jean Steffens performing various piano and vocal pieces.
The article recalls Puritan worship in New England with plain meeting houses, no bells or organs, and strict church attendance enforced by law. It details the stern pulpit rituals, long sermons, cold winters, and postures of deacons and tythingmen, plus the evolution of singing from limited tunes to fugues and the rise of choristers and later choir traditions.
An ad declares Eood's Sarsaparna as America's greatest medicine that cleanses the blood and cures friends and relatives. It touts widespread testimonials and urges belief in its power as an unparalleled blood purifier.
The narrator recalls early musical life with a village choir and family. His father as bass and noted figures like Squire Clifford as tenor, plus a leading soprano who later lived in Independence Iowa. The piece notes instruments used and a past singing school that once flourished in the evenings at the school house.
Ex governor Myron H. McCord writes from Washington that after using one bottle of Perana he felt better and recommends it to others with catarrh. He notes past colds and sore throat improved and urges starting treatment now. He urges insisting on Perana and requests a free catarrh book from Dr Hartman in Columbus Ohio.
The master marks notes and scales on a board and conducts singing with vigor before public schooling made singing universal. The piece notes that singing stayed in family, social, and religious circles and events, and highlights that girls going home with attendees boosted the school’s popularity.
The Omaha traveling salesman and Fifty-first regiment veteran McGee son is described as not an unscrupulous criminal, but a 23 year old with epilepsy worsened by army cigarette use. He suffered two severe seizures Friday and is too weak to lift his head, while his father laments the illness and a prostrate wife in Dubuque.
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