The Dubuque Daily Herald May 10, 1878 Caught On The Fly DUBUQUE, May 9, 1878. During the past 24 hours ending 3:40 p. m. the barometer over the upper Mississippi valley has risen, with general decrease of momentum, prevailing northwest winds, and fair weather. Tile Mississippi river has remained stationary at St. Louis, has risen […]
The Dubuque Weekly Tribune Wednesday November 13, 1850 City Improvements for 1850. Few seasons have opened more inauspiciously for Dubuque than did the one now drawing to a close. With the very commencement of the current year, the minds of many of our citizens, as well as of persons residing in other portions […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Tuesday July 14, 1891 FINE FINISH BY FLANDERS The Sale of the Knapp-Stout Lumber Company’s Interest At Last Officially Verified. Three Million Dollars of Stock Are Being Placed Among Leading American Capitalists. There is no doubt that the Knapp, Stout & Co., company’s business to a syndicate of western men is consummated, […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald Friday February 5, 1892 TO SECURE A SAW MILL Mr. M. H. Moore Broaches a Feasible and Practical Project. He Proposes the Organization of a Syndicate to Operate the Dubuque Lumber Company’s Mill. Mr. N. H. Moore has outlined a plan by which another saw mill can be added to the manufacturing […]
The Dubuque Daily Herald May 9, 1878 Caught On The Fly DUBUQUE, May 8, 1878. During the past 24 hours ending 3:40 p. m. the barometer over the upper Mississippi valley has risen slightly, together with generally lower temperature, prevailing northerly winds and clear to fair weather. The Mississippi river has risen 2 inches at […]
The Telegraph-Herald and Times – Journal Sunday March 25, 1934 Dubuque Packing Co. Expands Boosts Sales, Payrolls And Properties During Period of Depression Spends More Than Million for Livestock and Supplies in 1933 Just three short years ago two men, young in years but old in meat packing experience, were prevailed upon by the […]
The Telegraph-Herald Sunday September 1, 1935 Demolition of Old Landmark Started In less than 60 days one of Dubuque’s old landmarks, pictured above, will be but a memory. Its demolition was started last week and the contract calls for the completion of the job in that length of time. Since 1856 this historic old structure has […]
The Telegraph-Herald Sunday December 4, 1938 Famed Fort to Be Rebuilt in East Dubuque Drawings by Burd, Bartels, Eitel and Cullen. Engineers This drawing shows the proposed park on the heights above the railroad tunnel in East Dubuque. In the left foreground are the tennis courts, shower rooms, and the famous Fort Perrot of early Dubuque […]
The Telegraph-Herald Sunday May 29, 1938 Dubuque Under 5 Flags—How City Developed This is how Dubuque looked in 1846 from the hills overlooking what is now East Dubuque The identity of the artist who sat on a hill just south of the East Dubuque bridge approach and made the above sketch is unknown. In the […]
The Telegraph-Herald Sunday December 1, 1940 ‘THE WEB OF LIFE’ Another Story of ‘Beginning’s of Dubuque’ —Telegraph Herald Photo This little chapel, still standing on a knoll on the Henry Glues farm just south of Rockdale on Route 4, is emblematic of the powerful force that religion was in frontier Dubuque. This religious background, as […]