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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1916
Page
1
Local newspaper section lists subscription prices and ad rates for Decorah Iowa. Notices mention medical offices Dr Daubney Hoeg Daly and Cutting with office hours and phone numbers, plus SUGAR BOWL Ice Cream Factory details and Lutheran Publishing House address. Editorial snippets cover current events and political opinions from 1916 era.
State executive council records show major Iowa lines profitable in 1915. Rock Island net earnings per Iowa mile 2718.78 and total 2981043.78. Burlington taxes 547055.13. Minneapolis and St. Louis per Iowa mile 1608.85 with taxes 188015. The reports cover per mile costs and system totals across Rock Island, Chicago Burlington and Quincy, and Minneapolis and St. Louis.
Iowa's annual clay tile output reaches 33 to 34 million dollars with end-to-end length about 12 000 miles. Mason City anchors the industry as the world’s largest center. State college engineers credit Iowa’s flat terrain and superior clay for leading tile manufacturing, supplying neighboring states.
Senator Warren G Harding of Ohio was chosen temporary chairman by unanimous vote on the first ballot. Other officers selected include LaFayette B Gleason of New York secretary William F Stone of Baltimore sergeant at arms and George L Hart of Roanoke Vermont official reporter.
Davenport voters must register for the June primary as the woman suffrage amendment makes it a special election. The attorney general’s office answered a Scott county request, noting the amendment changes the primary status and urging registration. Volmer of Davenport attended alongside others, including leaders from the German alliance of Iowa.
Governor G W Clark endorses the Federated Women’s Clubs of Iowa to launch a Clean Up and Paint Up Week starting April 24. Sixteen thousand women back the effort to improve civic standards, sanitation, fire safety, and beauty across the state with local participation urged by mayors and newspapers. Decorah is highlighted as a local focus for the program.
The Department of Agriculture reports rising livestock on farms with 4,565,000 mules and 63,047,000 swine on January 1, 1916. Mule and cattle numbers rose while sheep fell. overall farm asset value increased to 35,969,253,000, up 33,531,000 from 1915.
The town reports 114 manufacturing firms in cities over 10 000 with Cedar Rapids Waterloo and Davenport pending partial data. Estimated annual production hits 300 million, exceeding the combined value of the state cereals by 15 million. Past five years show large factory gains across Marshalltown Iowa City Mason City Fort Dodge Muscatine Clinton Sioux City. Contte gunpowder note and J Bryan marked fifty six on March.
U S Senator Lawrence Y Sherman of Illinois denounces the Democratic administration as the greatest aggregation of political acrobats in American politics. He argues the President would abandon platform pledges and policies in a second term, labeling Wilson vacillating and wobbly on settled principles. The 1912 platform is mocked as hollow rhetoric about essential national welfare.
The G A R in Town reports 445 member deaths in 1915 about 5 to 6 percent of state membership. Iowa has 7 003 members in good standing down from 8 059 last year with 409 new entrants. Deaths in 1914 were 427. An estimated 8 000 veterans in Town are not affiliated. State encampment June 20 to 22 at Marshalltown will hear the reports with John F Merry presiding.
A World story notes Edgar street lies between Broadway and Madison below Rector street, a solidly built, doorless block with no residents, no businesses, and a mail carrier who never stops. Fifteen long steps span from end to end.
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