Complementary Calendar for readers of the Dubuque National-Demokrat; the accompanying text notes that the newspaper was founded in 1856, making 1886 the 30th anniversary of its founding.
Like many newspapers of the period, the Iowa Staats-Anzeiger published annual New Year's greetings for its readers. This greeting includes a poem on the new year of 1889, which reveals the Democratic leanings of the paper by lamenting that Grover…