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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1918
Page
4
A sprawling wartime record details New Hampton and Plainfield naval rosters, Liberty loan subs and savings, farm crops and gardens, student farm volunteers, and incidents from rail and farm disasters. It notes deaths in France, hospital injuries, disloyalty arrests, and public notices of flags marking war gardens.
Three people died in Waterloo within two hours. J N Earnst aged 50 died after leaping in front of a passenger train at East Ride station and died three hours later. Elmer O Haven a freight conductor for Illinois Central was killed instantly by a switch engine after stepping back from a side track. Mrs Sarah Jane Jenkins aged 78 was found dead at home on Logan Avenue from gas exposure likely eighteen hours dead.
Forecast for April 22 to 28 calls for fair conditions in the Fermal Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys with possible showers in the Dakotas midweek. Warmer start to the week with above normal temperatures after Tuesday.
K N Mayer and A B Wilson with a Minneapolis committee arrived to study and mark the best Chicago to Twin Cities auto route. Mayer advocates the Decorah Decorah to Cresco Cannon Falls Cresco path via Geneva Lake and Janesville Madison Prairie du Chien Decorah signaling the route is shorter by about five hours and offers superior scenery and hotels.
The Butler County Board of Supervisors displayed a large county service flag with 332 stars for men in army service. It was unfurled during a visit by a band from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station and may be reused at county celebrations, returning to the County Auditor's office afterward.
The United States Food Administration promotes a Total Abstinence Club to ban wheat flour until after harvest. Deems notes corn meal output has doubled from October to March and milling capacity is up 200 percent. Flour sales under twelve pounds are loosened to allow smaller packages while pledges spread in Texas and Iowa.
The ad suggests people with biliousness or constipation try Chamberlain's Tablets and learn from others who report good results. It emphasizes observing different methods and following proven examples.
The Cooking Editor of the Woman's Home Companion urges women to increase canning in 1918 to conserve food for winter. She notes patriotic push, travels to assess efforts, and insists every household raise dry and can produce for self and neighbors using safe, convenient methods.
The Fayette County Farm Bureau with local banks forms a farmers exchange bureau. Banks host bulletin boards for farmers to post wants to sell buy or seek help. Cards are sent to the County Agent, then compiled, returned and posted. It will align with a state exchange as it develops.
The Mason City mayor conducts a weekly census of idle youths of military age or younger in cigar stores pool halls and near beer shops. Names occupations and reasons for idleness are recorded and kept in the mayor's office as an ongoing loafers inventory with notes on individual cases.
D Wiggins a Story City Civil War veteran and local pioneer was found dead seated on a box in his barn. Authorities suggest heart failure from excitement after the dog he was hanging tried to bite him. His wife found him after calling him to dinner. Evidence showed his hands covered with blood.
Manager Earl Kelly reports a 54000 pound shipment of Allamakee cheese left the local cold storage for Britain to fulfill an order received in February.
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