01 Apr 1915
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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1915
Page
1
A long clipping discusses lung diseases and medical notes with mentions of offices in Citizens, Urbana, Durban, and various doctors. It weaves in political quips about taxes, prohibition, and international affairs, including references to Wilson, Mexico, and naval matters. The text mixes editorial comment, office ads, and satire.
A sprawling Iowa legislative digest covers a private banks regulation bill, county uniformity fights in school books, highway plan details, and notable bills on deposits, road patrols, and state education. It also notes wartime sea actions, turkey education scene, and various committee sifts with dates and key figures.
A New York cotton broker explains that a bale of cotton is needed to make smokeless powder for an inch gun shot, suggesting monthly cotton spending up to 810000 during the war. Cotton is also used in wound treatment, while a sharp rebuke comes for Postmaster General Burleson over alleged three million dollar department profits, questioned as to how funds were gathered. Rural carriers and mail clerks attest to the figures’ breakdown within divisions.
A plan to raise a 1 000 000 fund in WIT for Luther Day was devised in York Pennsylvania at a conference of Lutheran clergy and laymen with Rev Dr TLTH Weber secretary of the board of church extension. The plan awaits approval by the general synod of the English Lutheran church at its Akron Ohio meeting in May.
Iowa boasts a new drydock in Keokuk measuring 445 feet by 140 feet by 36 feet deep the largest inland drydock in the world. It serves steamboats on the Mississippi and its tributaries for repairs and maintenance.
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