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              <text>&lt;h2 style="text-align:center;"&gt;Großes Narrenfest!&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h3 style="text-align:center;"&gt;Narrenkönig heraus!&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Großer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maskenball,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;am&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fastnachts Montag, 12. Februar, 1866&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;im&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deutschen Stadttheater.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Große Preisvertheilung!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;Für die schönste Damen-Maske!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;Für die beste Character-Maske!&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;Für die beste Komische-Maske!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Zur Erheiterung der Ballgäste&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;wird hier zum erstenmale die weltbekannte&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;„Schwefelbande“ im Saale die Erscheinung ma-&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;chen, ebenso die histerisch-berühmte „Löffelgarde“&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;aus Schildberg.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Musik von der&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Germania-Band.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;Preisvertheilung um 11 1/2 Uhr durch&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;Ein zu erwählendes Committe.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eintritt&lt;/strong&gt;: Für Herr und Dame &lt;strong&gt;$1.50&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;Für jede weitere Dame 50 Cts.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;Damen maskirt frei.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;Die Bühne ist zum Büffee eingeraümt&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;Supper das Ticket pro Person 75 Cts.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;Jan. 18-3W               A. Kriegar&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt; * * * * * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2 style="text-align:center;"&gt;Ball&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;des deutschen&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unterstützungs-Vereins,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;am Samstag, 27. Januar 1866&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;in City Hall&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;Eintritt für Herr u. Dame incl. S[ou]per: $2.50&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* * * * * * * *&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h3 style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vorläufige Anzeige.&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;h2 style="text-align:center;"&gt;Festfeier&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;zu&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thomas Payne’s Geburtstag,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;am Montag, den 29. Januar 1856&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;in der&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;alten Turnhalle,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nach der Feier: &lt;strong&gt;Tanzkränzchen!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Musik der ganzen Germania Band.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;Anfang 8 Uhr.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Eintritt: 50 Cts. Damen frei&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zu dieser Feier laden alle Verehrer von Tho-&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;mas Payne, sowie das Publikum in Allgemei-&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;nen bestens ein.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;[Xxx?] Dubuque [xxx?] Turnverein&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align:center;"&gt;Das Committe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[transcribed by Rachel Harder]&lt;/div&gt;</text>
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                <text>Mardi Gras Ball Advertisements, Dubuque National-Demokrat, 1866</text>
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                <text>Three advertisements concerning Mardi Gras activities in Dubuque: 1) a masquerade ball in the German City Theater (Deutsches Stadttheater) with prize competition for the best costume; a ball in City Hall sponsored by the German Aid Society; a celebration in honor of Thomas Payne's birthday</text>
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                <text>Frederick Gniffke (?)</text>
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                <text>&lt;a href="https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators/legislator/legislatorAllYears?personID=5563" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;Frederick A. Gniffke&lt;/a&gt;</text>
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