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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1917
Page
1
President declares freedom for all, urges international cooperation and domestic reform. He warns against factionalism, stresses equal rights, sea freedom, disarmament limits, and government power from the people. The oath reaffirms unity to guide America through wartime duties and a just peace.
European front reports German forces retreating with losses while Berlin and Paris circles note renewed attacks. British forces seize Gommecourt and nearby villages, Turkish troops taken at Kut-el-Amara numbered in the thousands. German air raid against Broadstairs injures one woman.
Resolutions attack senators who blocked the armed neutrality measure as treasonous and urge President Wilson to use constitutional power to arm American ships passing the German barreled zone. The gathering was held under the American Rights League.
A collection of wartime notes from Naumburg and London reports includes arrests in Havana of Paul Dreher a German subject, a fine on Swedish agent Joseph Westenberg for exporting forbidden goods, ship armed defense proposals, and a House vote 408 to 13 approving arming merchant ships.
Iowa grain and elevator operators face massive delays as loaded rail cars fail to move due to congestion around Chicago. Five to twenty carloads per elevator are held back, threatening farmer incomes and local industry. State officials urge drastic measures while rail workers report sidetracks full of immovable cars. George Wrightman notes past freight efforts failed as manufacturers warn of millions in losses.
A telegraph from New York city's food supply committee asks for growers of potatoes and onions. Secretary A. B. Corey notes the state sericultural department tracks annual crop reports showing potato output decreasing from 10,818,839 bushels on average in twenty years to 4,287,000 bushels in 1916.
At the request of the Wapello school board, University of Iowa officials conduct a health survey of the city's school children. Over 400 children will be inspected as part of the investigation to show what could be accomplished with adequate facilities.
Edward Bender, a Sioux City capitalist, bequeathed $30,000 to Mirat Methodist Episcopal church in his will. The estate, valued at over $200,000, also includes $4,000 to Morningside College, Helping Hand mission, and the Boys and Girls home.
Iowa Patriotic Fund organizes flags for every county schoolhouse in Denison area. Flag poles to be placed as needed on school grounds. Fund aims to raise 400000 dollars to buy and maintain flags. Teachers to ensure flag is displayed daily when weather allows.
Colonel McConlogue, longtime Iowa public figure and former member of the state board of control, dies in a Des Moines hospital after a prolonged illness. He had earlier served in the Iowa militia and on state commissions. In Holstein a new grade school costing 70,000 dollars is dedicated with a 400-seat auditorium and modern labs. Fort Dodge reports Illinois Central Railroad ordering 75 new engines and other equipment worth 750,000 dollars to ease freight congestion.
At the Interstate Farmers and Breeders Association annual convention in Sioux City a resolution urged Iowa and five neighboring states to repeal stock inspection laws and instead allocate funds to eliminate tuberculosis and other diseases among farm animals where present. The measure aims to redirect state funds toward animal health efforts.
Mugeena D P Hogan a Massena banker is appointed manager of the federal loan bank to be established in Omaha with a salary of 38000. He is regarded as a leading expert on rural credits and has studied the subject abroad for the government. Iowa is in the Omaha district. Farmers in Scott county hold large potato stocks as high costs push prices up. John H Stroben of Walcott is among those holding 15000 bushels with prices at 3.60 a bushel for carload lots.
Sioux City hog market topped at 12.30 per hundredweight the highest ever here marking a fifth winter record. Compared with last year prices over 4.60 and five years ago makers top at 8.25 per hundredweight.
Oliver McGee sold forty two hogs in November 1916 at an average price of 42.69 dollars per head. The hogs weighed about 135 pounds on November 1 and later reached an average of 201 pounds in under four months.
Two hundred male members of the local Sokols organization in Cedar Rapids pledge loyalty and offer service to the national Sokols for wartime duty against Germany, aligning with the broader home front effort.
The report notes Iowa's high spending on bridge and road construction last year, with an emphasis on foundation work and permanent grading. It highlights plans to surface roads and develop a highway system that could rival other states, noting a total of $14,337,050 allocated for road and bridge projects across county and township systems of about 102,000 miles. The text underscores two thirds directed to county roads and the western region.
The session debates a two year appropriation bill totaling about 91.9 million with 576 thousand for education and a 1.46 million request for the board of control. Other items include hospital funding, railroad valuations, normal and consolidated schools, and a wide range of state program costs. Senate action also targets a dry law to ban liquor shipments into towns and a move to bar rail carriers from hauling liquor into Iowa.
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