06 Aug 1914
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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1914
Page
1
A jumble of opinion pieces and notices surveys current events from Mexico to U S tariff talk and politics. It muses on Huerta Carranza and US public mood while lampooning political rhetoric and social trends. It also reports on demographics science and education in a broad editorial voice.
The report shows 73 percent of prison commitments tied to property crimes. At Anamosa reformatory by July 1 this year 7 426 inmates had been received since 1874, with 5 479 for property offenses including 2 265 larceny and 1 026 burglary.
The state board of health reports twelve violent deaths in Town in May. Personal crisis reports total thirty three, with eighteen drownings, seven automobile fatalities, eighteen railroad deaths, and three lightning deaths. The month’s total deaths reach 1787, with Polk County recording twelve.
Congressman Haugen leads the Republican effort in the lower house to pass the Moon bill establishing federal oversight of grain inspection and grading. The measure, approved by the Agriculture Committee and backed by grain growers, would require state funded inspections under Agriculture Department direction with appeals to the secretary of agriculture. Illinois Missouri Minnesota and Nebraska already employ grain inspectors with positive outcomes for shippers and buyers.
Clinton P. Shockley and Mortimer B. Cleveland expect the Iowa building in San Francisco to finish on time. The design features a central living room with rugs and telephone booths, women’s rest room and smoking room, plus three mezzanine exhibit sides.
The Waukon Republican reports iron mines at Waukon are closed for now with only five workers in office and plant oversight. Superintendent Erwin cites no demand for output as mines nationwide pause, noting the owner, a Missouri partisan, is an ardent Democrat named Mr. Goltra.
More than 110 men who voted the progressive ticket in 1912 in Indianapolis Indiana gathered to declare allegiance to the Republican party. They issued an appeal to voters across the state and urged former progressives to join with them in supporting the Republican ticket this year. Attendees represented all regions and included former leaders of the new party.
The state executive council voted to reduce the 1914 state levy by one tenth of a mill, down to 2.8 mills from 2.9, saving about $200000 in revenue. The move aims to ease fiscal burden and encourage local boards to lower levies, while legislature imposed millage taxes remain unchanged.
The Iowa board of control acquired the butter tub factory inside the Anamosa reformatory, making the state sole owner when current contracts expire next fall. The move ends the long standing convict contract labor system and plans to continue butter tub production and marketing without competing with local labor.
Iowa Prohibition Party leader RK MH Williams says the prohibitionists will not back the bull moose or align with progressives in November. He notes nominations will be by petition and that a full state ticket including congressional and legislative candidates will run, aiming to keep parties dry statewide.
A reader reports a Frenchman proposes placing air on water to stop fogs and asks how gasoline costs might rise as seven seas burn crude oil weekly. The note appears in the Louisville Courier Journal.
The German Emperor declares war by mobilizing the army after Russia orders full mobilization. France remains neutral per Italy. Battles flare on the Aland Islands and along the Drina as troops clash near Belfort and Kalisz with Russian and Austrian forces engaging.
The text states that underground temperatures rise about one degree per hundred feet, or 50 degrees per mile. It notes that a constant rate would yield a melting point at a depth of one million miles under ordinary conditions.
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