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Newspaper
Dubuque Sunday Herald
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1900
Page
15
The piece notes elaborate preparations for summer entertainments linked to the Paris exposition. American Mrs. Potter Balmer, the American commissioner, will reveal details ahead of print. Paris dress shops spotlight exotic gowns in silk crepes and imperial patterns, with one vivid pink shaded gown praised for its bold effect.
The article surveys early season fashion with many young girls wearing simple tulle over satin gowns. It highlights empire bodices, lavish draping, and varied fabrics including pale pink and mauve lace, plus novel street wear called pictured gowns with V necks and bertha draped shoulders.
A Chronicle reports a claim that a colored woman was excluded from testifying because she could not distinguish her right from her left. An observer notes many women in a theater misdirect their checks, and asserts the error reflects broader feminine confusion in tests of right versus left.
A writer in Science cites a grim incident at Heidelberg where two German students, after a quarrel, enacted what they called an American duel. One man shot himself after drawing the black ball, dying months later, while friends praised the act as honorable and claimed no complicity by the survivor.
The United States coal output for 1899 is estimated at 255,559,650 short tons, up 17.5 percent from 1895. Value of production near $295,435,412, about $51 million higher than 1895. Illinois ranks second to Pennsylvania in state coal totals.
Passenger trains depart Dubuque daily with connections to Chicago St Louis and Kansas City. Through sleepers run to St Paul and Minneapolis and to Iowa North and South Dakota. G H Lippincott is the contact in Dubuque Iowa for full information.
The fragment describes passenger train movements with departures and arrivals at Chicago and other cities, mentioning sleepers, daily service, and specific times such as 10:17 pm to Omaha and Sioux City, plus night train details. It records inconsistencies in spelling and scheduling across lines.
A dense collection of train times shows arrivals and departures for the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway. The notes reference Chicago and through sleepers to Chicago St Louis and connections to Minnesota and Dakota routes with various numbered trains and arrival times.
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