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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1918
Page
1
A collage of local notices and ads from Decorah Iowa features doctors offices and addresses, shop listings, and political patriotic content. It includes medical practitioners, a publishing house, a printing shop, an attorney at law, an Osteopathic physician, an optician, a bank building location, clothing, and general goods advertisements along with war savings notes and moral reflections.
A collage of commentary on wartime politics and social issues. Topics include Nat Haugen fired for temperament in a film company, German naming quips, Trotzky and US war aid, potato rations, New York politics, Sunday munitions, Bolshevik influence, senatorial courtesy, ex king Constantine’s pension loss, illiteracy in draft age, and the law of angaria governing seizure of ships with promised restitution after peace.
A brief editorial notes a service flag in a street window with two stars red and black. It laments war reaching home and urges readers to pause for prayer and support for strangers facing death, urging resilience and hope.
The Democratic gathering at New Hampton chose G. A. Meyer of Calmar as the candidate for state senator representing Winneshiek and Howard counties. Meyer indicated reluctance to oppose certain Republicans but will run given the unclear outcome of the GOP primaries.
A proposed thrift scheme suggests buying a $1,000 Liberty Bond and an endowment policy for $1,000. Interest from the bond may cover premiums and dividends could double the investment in twenty years, with $2,000 on death before maturity. The postal savings bank now holds 574,738 depositors with $131,504,606, mostly foreigners seeking safety under government backing. Minnesota’s cold climate skepticism is noted, as residents pride in their state while reacting to national ads.
A Madison Wisconsin program trains fourteen Winneshiek men in aeroplane and gas engine work and related trades. They work six hours daily in electrical, gas engine, woodworking, machine shop, gunsmithing, blacksmithing, and sheet metal tasks, with a focus on splicing struts and repair skills for field needs.
Washington April 22 The Bureau of Animal Industry has named Miss Lillie Baxter of Ida Grove Iowa to promote cottage cheese production on farms and its use in homes as part of a national campaign with the U S Food Administration. Baxter is one of 40 women agents for 40 states to cooperate with federal and state agents.
Iowa school districts urged to plant at least one acre of navy beans each to bolster food production for soldiers and allies. A. M. Deyoe frames the campaign with prizes for districts and counties, while teachers organize, seed, and track plantings and yields across municipalities.
A wartime opinion piece weighs the impact of a German breakthrough on the Western Front, the threat to France and America, and the need for Americans to support Liberty Bonds. It cites Secretary Lane on mineral production and references Jeffersonian democracy and wartime duty.
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