DUBUQUE
HERALD
April - December, 1862
DUBUQUE HERALD, April 6, 1862, p. 2
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DUBUQUE
HERALD, April 6, 1862, p. 2
Manhood;
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A Lecture on the nature, treatment and radical cure of Spermatorrhea or
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DUBUQUE
HERALD, April 6, 1862, p. 2
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DUBUQUE HERALD, April 6, 1862, p. 4
Reader,
Choose between
A Vigorous Age
--or—
An Untimely Death.
O, how much misery and sickness would
have been spared me had I but read this book before.
Just published, Price, 15 cents.
The
Mirror of Youth
or the
Mysteries of Sexual Intercourse.
By
Dr. J. Lubarsch, Practicing Physician, Chicago, Ill.
Translated from the German, Fourth Edition.
Everybody should read this book; it contains useful information about the
preservation, the weakness and the diseases of the sexual organs as well as a
statement of the mode of cure for such as suffer the enervating consequences of
self-pollution, secret diseases and other dissipations.
The "Mirror of Youth" is the warning sign, which leads the
uninformed, and those that have already wandered astray, back to the right path,
wherefore it has become a real book for the million, of which during the short
period of 4 years over 20,000 copies of the German edition have been sold.
The mode of treatment, based upon the principles of electricity, is fully
discussed in it. On remittance of 15 cents in Post Stamps, will be sent free
by mail. Address
Dr. J. Lubarsch, Chicago, Ill. Box
2278.
DUBUQUE
HERALD, April 8, 1862, p. 1
Roofing Manufactory
Patent India Rubber
Roofing Compound.
The best Flat Roofing yet found for the Northern climate.
Neither runs in warm weather nor cracks in cold.
I manufacture it for sale by the barrel, or will put it on any where in
Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin or Minnesota.
I have been putting it on in Dubuque for four years.
Old tin roofs made as good as new.
Wm. O. Diboll, Agent.
All contracts made by W. J. Gilbert, No. 110, Main Street.
The Best of City References.
P. A. Lorimer,
L. D. Randall
H. W. Sanford
T. Gilliam,
T. S. & D. S. Wilson,
Geo. L. Mathews,
W. G. Stewart,
G. W. Cummins.
DUBUQUE HERALD, April 8, 1862, p. 4, c. 3
House-Keepers Daily Retail Market--
Saturday, April 5, 1862.
Owing to bad roads, several articles have advanced in price.
This in only temporarily, as produce is plenty in the country, and one
week of fair weather w ill reduce prices very materially.
Apples--40 cents per peck.
Butter--12@15 c. per lb.
Carrots--10 c. per peck.
Cabbage--5 c. per head.
Chickens--35@40c. per pair.
Ducks--35c. per pair.
Eggs--10 c. per doz. 3 doz. 25c.
Geese--40@60c. each.
Lard--7c per lb.
Onions--10c per peck.
Parsnips--10 c. per peck.
Potatoes--15c per peck@46 c. per bushel.
Turnips--5 c. per peck.
Turkeys--6 c per lb.--50 @ 60c each.
Wood--$3 00@3 50 delivered.
Meat Market.
Beef Steaks 6@8 cts. per lb.
Corned Beef--4 @ 5 c. per lb.
Live Cattle--$2 00@2 75 per cwt
Mutton--8 and 10 cts. per lb.
Pork Steaks--6 cts per lb
Sausage--8 cts. per lb.
Roast Pork--5 and 6 cts.
Sheep--$2 50 and $5 00 each.
Veal--6@8 cts. per lb.
Calves--2.50 and 5.00
Teas.
Young Hyson--$1.25 lb.
Gun powder--$1 25 lb.
Imperial--$1 30 lb.
Black--$1.00 lb.
Sugars.
Brown--8 3/4 @ 11 cts lb.
Crushed--13 3/4 @ 14 cts. lb.
Pulverized--13 3/4 @ 14 cts. lb.
Coffee--13 @ 13 1/2 lb.
Coffees.
Rio--25 cts. lb.
Java--25 and 30 cts. lb.
DUBUQUE
HERALD, April 10, 1862, p. 4, c. 2
Girls' Ideas of Men.--At sixteen, a girl considers no man good enough to
be her husband. She must have a
real, live archangel, with "humid orbs," a "marble brow," on
which "cluster wavy tresses, black as the raven's wing;" a moustache
of silken softness, and ebony hue;" in a word, no human being of
flesh-and-blood qualities, but an altogether sweet and lovely ideal creature, in
purple in fine linen, with plenty of money and no small vices.
Unfortunately, no such persons exist.
He is a pleasant myth of the buttered thunder school of romance, and has
no material form in this world of corner-lots, dry goods and gas bills.
At eighteen, the angel discovers that unwholesome truth, and changes her
views accordingly. She is probably in love by that time, with some decent
looking and sensible young fellow, who, though hardly an archangel, does very
well to idealize. Then, it must be
a great man. A Judge of the Supreme
Court might do; a great General would be acceptable; the President of the United
States would be just the thing; or a foreign Prince or Count might find a
welcome if genuine. But tom or
Harry utterly refuses to become a General, or judge, a president, or a foreign
nobleman. He remains goodlooking,
penniless, and clever, and the aspiring young lady loves him as much as ever.
Finally, when the affair is settled, she either weds him at twenty,
settles down into an excellent matron, and enjoys her life; or breaks her heart,
and marries a tallow chandler, bald but wealthy, at twenty-five, and regrets it
at her leisure. Such is the general
history of maidens who set forth with an idea of marrying nothing short of a
novelesque hero.
DUBUQUE
HERALD, April 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
A
Female Acting as Lieutenant on the Potomac.--The Troy Budget learns from a
private correspondence that one of the companies on the Potomac has been for a
short time in command of a good-looking Lieutenant, who turns out to be a lady
from that city. Being a woman she
could not well put away womanish ways, and she was arraigned before a military
tribunal, where she plead guilty to the charge of belonging to what is generally
denominated the softer sex. It
would seem that she was engaged to the Captain of the company and adopted what
she considered the best, if not the most proper way of manifesting her
attachment to him. We presume that
she was tendered leave of absence as a result of the investigation.
DUBUQUE HERALD, April 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
Definitions.
Gentleman.--A man with a fast horse, not paid for; fashionable clothes
for which the tailor suffers; all ruffle and no shirt; a cane in his hand and a
long john in his mouth.
Lady.--A female shaped something like a woman, very small in the middle,
and of large dimensions elsewhere; to be found everywhere except at home; and
with a natural attraction nowhere to be found.
DUBUQUE
HERALD, April 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Rules for Health (a la Dr. Hall)--Imprimis.--Never go to bed with your
feet sticking out of the window, particularly when it is raining and freezing.
More than three pigs feet and half a mince pie eaten at midnight will not
generally cause the consumer to dream of houris, paradises, accommodating
bankers, and other good things. At
least, they are not apt to do so.
Never stand in the rain barrel all night.
It checks perspiration, and spoils rain water for washing purposes.
Never spank your children with the hand saw, or box their ears with the
sharp edge of a hatchet. It is apt
to effect the brain.
Never stand in the hall with the door open, with nothing but your he-mise
or your che-mise on, talking to a friend more than half an hour at a time.
To enlarge the muscles of the arms and legs, climbing up and down the
chimney (especially if the house is a four storied one) three or four times
before breakfast, is a cheap exercise and gives voracious appetite.
Ear-ache in children is a common and vexatious complaint. To cure it at once, bore a hole in the tympanum with a
gimlet, and pour in oil and things. If
the child keeps on crying, bore it all the way through to the other ear.
Corns may easily be cured. The
most torturing corn can at once be extirpated as follows:
Take a sharp knife; find the joint of the toe whereon the corn resides;
insert the knife in the articulation; pry off the toe, and throw it away.
It will never return again, unless your dog brings it back to you in its
mouth.--(Patent applied for.)
Never allow your masculine children to ride a saw horse, as it tends to
knock-knees and bowleggedness.
DUBUQUE HERALD, April 16, 1862, p. 1, c. 2
Southern News and Incidents.
From the Charleston Mercury.
The Women of the South.
The women of Nashville are treating the Yankees with great contempt.
When General McCook, of the Lincoln army, arrived in Nashville, he sent
up his card with the request that he might renew his former acquaintance with
Miss S. McNairy. The following was
the patriotic reply of the noble and accomplished lady, written on the back of
the card:
"Sir--I do not desire to renew my acquaintance with the invaders of
my State."
Two other Hessian officers obtruded their presence into the parlor of Dr.
Martin, and sent up their cards to his daughter, Miss Bettie Martin, an elegant
and accomplished young lady requesting also the renewal of an old
acquaintanceship. Repairing to the
parlor with a look of ineffable scorn and contempt, she dashed the card into
their faces, and said: "Your
absence, sirs, will be much better company to me than your presence."
In Pinto county, Texas, a call being made for volunteers, out of a crowd
of men only five marched out, when fifteen young daughters of Texas marched out
into line, and declared they would go into the service of their country if their
places were not filled by good men. A
perfect yell ensued, and fifteen men took their places. This is so.
DUBUQUE
HERALD, April 16, 1862, p. 4, c. 2
The Wounded Soldiers.--It has been published in a city paper that two
Sisters of Charity from here went to take care of the wounded. This is a mistake, but there is little, if any, doubt of the
willingness of not only two, but twenty of them to go on that charitable
service, if an opportunity be afforded them.
Nothing better could be done in the interests of humanity by those who
have had no opportunity to serve their country in a more hazardous manner than
to do something now to send forward such persons as offer themselves to care for
the poor, wounded, sufferers, many of whom will die or be subjected to cruel
operations for want of proper attention to their wounds.
We need not say how valuable, how serviceable ten or twelve or more
Sisters of Charity would be among the thousands of wounded children of Iowa,
who, probably are not the best provided for with such attendance as should be
given to them in their afflictions. These
suggestions are thrown out for the consideration of the community, and we merely
add that whatever be done in conformity with our ideas, should be undertaken and
carried through without delay. Battle
wounds need early and constant attention, without which, many a valuable life
will be lost. Let us all try to do
something therefore for the wounded.
DUBUQUE HERALD, April 27, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
Ballou's Patented F. Y. S.
French Yoke Shirts.
Warranted to Fit.
[illustration of man's back, wearing shirt]
Send for a Circular to Ballou Bros.,
No. 409 Broadway, New York
For
sale by all the principal dealers through the United States.
DUBUQUE
HERALD, April 27, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
The Best Souvenir of the War!
On April 26, 1862, will appear a New Monthly Serial, entitled:
Ballads of the War,
A series of Pictorial Lyrics, from the well known pen of
Mr. A. J. H. Duganne,
Magnificently
illustrated from original drawings, by the best artists, and beautifully printed
on hot pressed paper.
A part will appear every month, including, among other events, the
"Fall of Sumter, Ball's Bluff, Roanoke, Death of Lyon, Port Royal; Hampton
Roads, Death of Ellsworth, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, Newbern, Pittsburg
Landing" &c., &c.; the whole forming an
Illustrated Poetical Souvenir
of
every event, in the present most important struggle in the history of this great
Nation.
Part 1 Entitled: The March
to the Capitol (of the 6th Regiment of Massachusetts,) will appear as
above.
Single Parts (Monthly, free by post,)
25 cents,
One Year, (12 Monthly parts,)
$3.00
Liberal terms to the trade, clubs and canvassers.
Apply to John Robins,
37 Park Row, N. Y.
DUBUQUE HERALD, May 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
A Woman Appointed Major.
From the Peoria Transcript.
Governor Yates has paid a rather unusual but well merited compliment to
Mrs. Reynolds, wife of Lieut. Reynolds, of Co. A, 17th Illinois, and a resident
of this city. Mrs. Reynolds has
accompanied her husband through the greater part of the campaign through which
the 17th has passed, sharing with him the dangers of a soldier's life.
She was present at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, and like a
ministering angel, attended to the wants of as many of the wounded and dying
soldiers as she could, thus winning the gratitude and esteem of the brave
fellows by whom she was surrounded.
Gov. Yates, hearing of her heroic and praiseworthy conduct, presented her
with a commission as Major in the army, the document conferring the well-merited
honor being made out with all due formality, and having attached the great seal
of the State. Probably no lady in
America will ever again have such a distinguished military honor conferred upon
her. Mrs. Reynolds is now in this
city, and leaves to join her regiment in a day or two.
DUBUQUE
HERALD, May 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Excitement of the Women.--A great number of women were also hurrying to
safer quarters, moaning and wringing their hands.
Some bewailed the loss of husbands, while others only anticipated that
fatal result--"Oh! my poor husband. I'm
sure he's killed." This
granting permission to women whereby they are enabled to accompany an army, is a
grand evil, and should not be tolerated by any commanding officer.
In case of a surprise like this at Pittsburg, or any sudden danger, they
are very apt to become excited, and appeal to whomsoever they are attached.
The result is that the husband will generally look to placing his wife
out of danger regardless of more important matters.--Correspondence from the
Battlefield.
DUBUQUE
HERALD, May 14, 1862, p. 4, c. 2
"Have you seen the fashions," said a grown up Miss to one of
her companions a day or two ago. "The
fashions," replied the other. "I
don't know exactly what you mean. There are several kinds of fashions now-a-days, and I don't
know exactly what kind is the fashion.
For example, there are the French fashions, which we ladies used to
follow when money was, as we thought, so plenty that we could never spend it
fast enough. There are the New York and Philadelphia and Boston fashions,
which are imitations of the Parisian styles.
But there is a new fashion, and it appears to me a better one than all
the others under circumstances in which the hard times have placed us."
"What is that," inquired the Miss.
"Oh! it is a fashion
you will hardly like. It is to wear
plain clothes made of nice American manufacture, which do not cost a fiftieth as
much as the kinds of material we used to purchase when money was plenty."
Miss tossed her head disdainfully, and added to the gesture the form of
an expression which seemed to say, "I shan't wear such stuff," and as
if to leave no doubt of her meaning, she gave expression to her thought by
saying:
"American manufacturers, indeed!
why it is vulgar to think of wearing such stuff.
It is only fit for niggers or poor white folks.
I have had all my things bought at importing establishments, and I am not
going to wear anything else."
"Perhaps," said her companion, "you do not know that we
shall all have to give up the gew-gaws with which we have indulged our pride. Our fathers and husbands will be compelled to curtail the
expenses of their families to pay the debts which the country has contracted to
carry on the war, and like our grandmothers of the Revolution, we must second
the efforts of those who have the care of providing for us."
Miss who could not be reasoned into propriety gave way at once to the
suggestion of Patriotism, and she joined her companion in a promise to patronize
home manufacturers and to dispense entirely for the future with foreign fabrics
and foreign commodities of every sort. Who
among our lady readers will follow the example?
DUBUQUE
HERALD, May 15, 1862, p. 4, c. 1
The short hair mania is as active as ever.
C. F. Wilkins "short shingled" the heads of sixty females last
week, and the cry is "still they come." A young Miss of our acquaintance has been teasing her mother
for the past three months to grant her the privilege of having her hair cut
short, like Miss So and So. Her
mother always objected, and told her it looked ridiculous, and if she ever had
it cut she would "wallop" her. The
other day she sneaked off down town, went to a barber shop, got it cut, and came
home looking like a "pug ugly." Her
mother gave her the promised "walloping," which she took in good part,
telling her mother she could not replace the hair.
Where there is a will there is a way--lickings don't hurt when a person
is determined.
DUBUQUE
HERALD, May 17, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Iron Clad.--We clip the following from an exchange.
With iron-clad ships and iron-clad girls we guess our country's safe:
We've mail-clad vessels; iron grates
Our ladies robes conceal;
Our ships' sides fenced with armor plates,
Our girls with ribs of steel.
Steel ribs will safe from capture make
Our Government marine;
And when do you expect to take
A wife in crinoline?
DUBUQUE
HERALD, May 25, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Latest from Halleck's Army.--Gen. Halleck has recently ordered all
newspaper correspondents from his camp. The
reason for this step is not clear, but we will inquire if there is not a family
by the name of Irwin residing at Savannah, Tenn., which has among its members
three sisters who are very beautiful, and whose brothers are in the rebel
army? Is not a correspondent of a certain paper in love with one of
these sisters, and has he not furnished them will full information of General
Halleck's movements, to be given to Beauregard? Who is this
correspondent? Gen. Halleck has his hand on him.--Chicago Journal.
DUBUQUE HERALD, May 31, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
Description of the Army Nurses.
The Shiloh correspondent of the Chicago Times says:
About the only women we have here are nurses, a class who are all very
well in a humanitarian way, and not much in the line of attraction.
They seem imbued, as a general thing, with the idea that there is nobody
to look at them, and the customary attire is a faded calico loose gown, straight
from top to bottom, ignoring waist and personifying the theory of the shirt on a
bean-pole. The wildest imagination could not induce the divine
admiration. If they only knew
it--if they had the slightest idea how much medicine to a sick man there is in a
trim, neat figure--how much relief there is in bright, sun-like colors, where
all is dark and sombre [sic]--how much unutterable joy can grow under a sweet
womanly smile--they'd never do it. I
think Miss Dix made a great mistake when she prescribed gaunt females, over
thirty, for the sick soldiers. I
just think one fresh, plump little woman, with the light of kindness in her
eyes, and the consciousness in her heart that she loves and pities men because
they are men; because they are bold and brave and unflinching, in sickness or
health; because in danger their strong arms stand between her and the whirlwind;
because of the innumerable attributes that endear strength and hardihood to
woman's nature, as naturally as the oak to the clinging vine--one such woman, be
she maiden, wife or matron, will do more good than all the doctors and drugs in
the army dispensary. There are a
few such, spite of Miss Dix and the "aged thirty" decree, and I have
seen them among the sick here and elsewhere.
I have seen tears rain down a soldier's brown cheek at the touch of one
of those soft hands upon his feverish forehead, and have watched his eyes
following the lithe round form the livelong day, while health and strength stole
upon his shattered frame like one of her own smiles upon the gloom of his
solitary repining.
DUBUQUE
HERALD, June 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
Love is no dream, as the following billet doux, picked up in front of the
post office will show:
My Deer Swettist Dickey.--I am so happy to heer from you so often--it
affords me sich grate plesher. You
always was so deer to me, I hope you will soon be deerer.
You kno that I never hinted nothing about marridge and never meen
to--take your own time for that. I
shall always remember the old saying, procrastinashun is the theef of time, but
mother sez nothin should be done in a hurry but ketchin fleas.
The fondest wish of my heart is that we may sune become one.
Do you read Franklin's Extracts--his remarks concerning marridge is
deliteful. Our harts he sez, ought
to assemble one another in every except; they ought to be hetergenius so that
our union may be mixed as well as uniting--not like oil and water, but like tea
and shuger. Truly I can feel for
the mortal Watts when he sez:
The rows is red the vilets blew
Shugars sweet and so are you.
Mother sez matrimony is better to think on than the reality.
I remain till deth or marridge, your own sweet candy.
MARY ANN.
N.B. I had a kusin married
last month, who sez there aint no true enjoyment but in the marrid state.
Your sweetis dov,
MARY ANN.
P.S. I hope you will let me
know what you mean to do, as there is four or five other fellows after me hot
foot, and I shall be quite oneasy till I hear.
Your loving swete,
MARY ANN.
DUBUQUE
HERALD, June 12, 1862, p. 1, c. 2
19th Regiment,
Iowa Volunteers.
Able Bodied Men wanted to form a Batallion [sic]
in the 19th Regiment, Iowa
Volunteers, just authorized to be raised.
Great Inducements.
Look Here, Look Here.
The subscriber is authorized to raise a Battallion [sic] of able-bodied
men for the 19th Regiment, U. S. Volunteers, to take the place of the
Garrison at Fort Randall.
I am enabled to offer all men enlisting under me a Furlough of 30 Days, to enable them to take care of their harvest during which time they will
Continue to Draw Pay.
No other recruiting officer is authorized to hold out such offers which amounts in fact to an
Extra Bonus of Sixty Dollars
Pay and subsistence to commence from the day of enlistment and transportation at the expense of the Government. So good a chance to enter the service may not occur again.
30 Officers to be Chosen from the Ranks.
Recruiting Office on Second Street, between Main and Locust.
Captain O. H. Case,
Recruiting Officer.
DUBUQUE
HERALD, June 27, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Why is a young lady, when taking a cup of tea, like a native of the Confederated
States? Because she is a
miss-a-sippin' (Mississippian).
DUBUQUE HERALD, July 17, 1862, p. 4, c. 2
To the Ladies of Dunleith.
By a Member of the Soldier's Aid Society.
Who
for our country's bleeding cause,
For our nation and its laws
Would gladly lend a helping hand,
Let them join our little band.
We wield the needle, not the sword,
It tells by deed, if not by word
It helps to wipe the soldier's tear,
To heal his wounds while plying here.
Come hither to our friendly call,
Bring your needle one and all,
Rally round our standard here,
Help! O help! a cause so dear.
DUBUQUE HERALD, August 3, 1862, p. 4, c. 2
Oh!
for some place in some wild wilderness,
A boundless contiguity of shade;
To hide me from the "muster man,"
Of whom I'm much afraid.
To
Canada I soon would go
But that I fear, ere long
The muster man would sure fol-low,
And take me right along.
If
Lincoln drafts and England drafts,
As is apparent they will do;
Where can my weary legs find rest,
Where? but in Timbuctoo?
DUBUQUE
HERALD, September 25, 1862, p. 3, c. 3
Military Organization of Women.--At Dearborn, in Michigan, last week, Capt.
Speed organized a company of one hundred young women, and administered to them
the oath, with the pledge that they would search out the families of volunteers
and supply their wants.
DUBUQUE HERALD, September 27, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
Benefit of the
Ladies' Aid Society.
Geo. W. De Haven's
Great Union Circus!
[illustration of man and woman standing on two horses]
Enlarged and improved, and now presented without fear of
rivalry, as the
Most Perfect Circus of the Age,
Comprising as it does all his old favorites with many new
members of the first order of talent, who will at
each exhibition appear in their most
Pleasing, Startling and Astonishing Acts
which for style, elegance and effective execution are unequalled.
Will Exhibit at Dubuque
Thursday and Friday, Oct. 2d & 3d
At 2 and 7 o'clock P. M.
Admission only twenty-five cents.
Ten per cent. of the entire gross receipts will be donated to the
Ladies Aid Society of This city.
See Pictorial and description bills.
DUBUQUE
HERALD, September 27, 1862, p. 4, c. 2
War Music.--The war has caused a great amount of songs, supposed to be the
effect of patriotic inspiration in their authors.
One called "Going to the Wars," on our table, is calculated to
make a sensation. We extract a few
lines:
Clergymen are mustering
Members of their flocks,
Satisfied they're able
To inflict some knocks.
Timid, blushing maiden
Softly gasps "My Gracious,"
As her gallant lover
Swears he'll shoot Jeff Davis!
Proud and doting father,
When he says, "my son,"
Hears his roguish youngster
Whisper 'of a gun!"
The music is equally as good as the song.
DUBUQUE
HERALD, October 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
Artemus Ward on the War. ...
A hansum young gal in our town was sot up with one night by a young
specimen of the true American, with scissors in his pocket--I mean a dry good
clerk--and the young gal's mother hear'n suthin pop, arose from her couch under
a impression that her oldest boy, who was given to friskyness, was holding a
wild revel on root beer in the west room. But
on openin' the door, she diskivered it was huggin' and kissin which had awoken
her from her peaceful repose.
"My daughter, O my daughter!" this fond parrink did cry;
"Oh! that I should live to see this doins in my own house!"
"I know, my dear mother," this sweet village maiden did unto
her mama quickly reply, "that it is quite improper, but it is orful
soothin."
So the subscriber isn't quite sure that it's right to speak so freely as
this about public affairs, but it kender soothes him to do it.
DUBUQUE HERALD, October 15, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Dr. "D's" Old Lock Hospital.
No Cure No Pay.
No. 112 Wells Street,
The only
Certain Remedy
for the cure of
Secret Diseases.
[illustration of lock with Strictly Confidential across it]
No. 112 Wells street. By the
strict system established at the Lock Hospital, 112 Wells street, all patients
are secure of absolute privacy. All
who have nee of advice or attention from Dr. D., may confide in him with a full
assurance of secrecy and a certain hope of recovery.
Some of the most learned and famous men of the country have been under
his charge, men of genius, intellect and power.
In no instance has any cases of privacy been violated.
Invalids must be cautioned against the illiterate and unlearned in
science, who do so much injury by quackery and imposition.
The Vegetable Medicines of Dr. D. are now fully established, as the only
certain remedy for veneral [sic] complaints, and those who are afflicted with
such complaints are seriously warned not to tamper with them or trusting those
who practice the abuse of mercury and balsam.
Dr. D. freely invites all troubled with disorders to call upon him.
His charges are regulated by the circumstances of the case.
No charge will be made where a cure is not effected.
Dr. D. is a regular physician, having devoted many years to the exclusive
study of the diseases, comprising their various shades Gonorrhaes, Syphilis,
Impotency, Strictures, Inflammation of the Bladder, Gleet, Scrofula or diseases
of the bones, &c. Nothing is
needed but to call on him to make everything satisfactory in a moment, such is
the absolute efficacy of the method of cure, that no question can possibly exist
about it, when once an individual becomes acquainted with the wholesome and
certain process. It is but for a
man to say he is afflicted and see himself cured.
The greatest point for the consideration of everybody is to avoid all
communication with persons unqualified to give them relief.
Serious and dangerous consequences ensue, more than the world is aware
of, from the treatment of quacks and imposters.
The only certain way is to visit the Lock Hospital, at Dr. D's.
Office, No. 112 Wells street, and at once place yourself under his care.
Office will be kept open from 9 A.M., until 5 o'clock at night.
All letters post paid.
DUBUQUE HERALD, October 16, 1862, p. 1, c. 2
Medical.
Nip the Evil in the Bud.
All Private Diseases Cured Without Mercury.
Dr. Whittier
Is regularly educated and legitimately qualified and has experienced, in
all forms of disease, a knowledge quite indispensable in the proper treatment of
the venereal disease, in all its varied and complicated forms, and has for years
made the treatment of private diseases his business and study.
Experience, the best of teachers, has enabled him to perfect remedies at
once efficient, safe, permanent, and, in most cases, can be used without
hindrance to business.
Particular attention given to old standing cases, such as were formerly
considered incurable. Syphilis, in
all forms; Gonorrhoea, Gleet, Strictures, Orchites, Diabetes, Bladder, and
Urinary Diseases. Also the effects
of solitary habits, both ruinous to body and mind, and which produce some of the
following effects: Blotches, bodily
weakness, constipation, aversion for and uneasiness in female society,
unmanliness, dread of future events, finally, a complete prostration of the
vital power, loss of memory, ringing in the ears—can be fully restored to
health.
All letters, with stamp, answered.
Dr. W. manufactures all his medicine from the purest drugs, free from
smell or taste. Please call; a
friendly talk and his opinion will cost you nothing.
His treatment is the result of long experience, and is commanding the
confidence of the entire West. No
charge will be made unless cure is permanently effected.
Dr. W. treats self-abuse with the most happy result.
Dr. Whittier cures permanently the very worst kinds of ruptures in a few
weeks.
Post Office box 2294. Office
and Consultation Rooms 164 South Clark street, Chicago.
You can find the Doctor every day from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
DUBUQUE
HERALD, October 19, 1862, p. 4, c. 1
The Ladies.--It was a glorious idea of Mahomed whereby his followers were
to find Heaven a beautiful land of fountains and groves filled with little birds
and sweet flowers, and above, all, thronged with lovely women.
Who would refuse to embrace such a creed, or the damsels included?
We believe our self as impervious to the tender emotions, peculiar to the
human heart, as any one, and yet we haven't the courage to come in contact with
calico and whalebone when encompassing a pretty woman.
In the language of "Ward," we got "them sentiments"
from visiting the sewing girls in Mark Smith's coat-making establishment.
Just think of it! One hundred and sixty-three women and girls, blooming with
health and youth, and all like a powder magazine, ready to explode at the
presence of a spark!
One hundred and sixty-three women whose beauty and loveliness have
destroyed the peace of mind of at least a dozen unfortunate young men each.
Nineteen hundred and fifty-six men bewailing their respective sad fates,
writing poetry to the moon in consequence of a wink or a smile or a little
pressure of the hand secretly given by one of these little, laughing, blue-eyed
or black-eyed coat-makers!
Poets visit beautiful landscapes, margins of broad prairies, banks of
great rivers and shores of wide lakes, that they may be inspired with beautiful
sentiments. No Poet ever caught
inspiration from a more lovely scene than that of a small regiment of young
ladies, not dressed for balls or routes, but in plain attire and at work.
We felt carried away to the dim regions where peace and beauty dwell,
when we looked upon these girls, but they didn't seem to notice us much, at
least none of 'em breathed on us. They
make a hundred coats a day, and in the meantime lay many a plan to capture the
boys--so we're told.
DUBUQUE HERALD, November 11, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Going with the Girls.
The entrance into society may be said to take place immediately after
boyhood have passed away, yet a multitude take their initiative before their
beards are presentable--it is a great trial either for a tender or a riper age.
For an overgrown boy to go to a door, knowing well that there is a dozen
girls inside, and knock or ring, with an absolute certainty that in a few
moments all eyes will be upon him, is a severe test of courage.
To go before these girls and make a tour of the room without stepping on
their toes, and sit down and repose of his hands without putting them in his
pockets, is an achievement which few boys can boast.
If a boy can go so far as to measure off ten yards of tape with one of
the girls, and cut it off at each end, he may stand a chance to pass a pleasant
evening. Let him not flatter
himself that the trials of the evening are over.
There comes a breaking up. The
dear girls don their hoods and put on their shawls, and look so saucy and
mischievous, so unimpressible and independent, as if they didn't wish anybody to
go home with them. Then comes the
punch, and the boy who has got the most pluck goes up to the prettiest girl in
the room, with his tongue clinging to the roof of his mouth, and crooking out
his elbow, stammers out the words, "Shall
I see you home?" She touches
her finger to his arm, and they walk home feeling as awkward as two goslings.
As soon as she is at her own door, he struts home, and really thinks he
has been and gone and done it. Sleep
comes on him at last, with dreams of Harriet and calico, and he wakes in the
morning and finds a door of life open upon him, and the pigs squalling for
breakfast.
DUBUQUE
HERALD, December 2, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
There are 411 Postmistresses in the United States.