07 Aug 1913
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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1913
Page
1
Local Decorah notices list medical offices with hours and phones, including JEWELL & JEWSELL and FARR Amy M D and WOODWARD M D. The piece also features a long war of short opinion columns, editorials, and jibes about tariffs, politics, language growth, and public figures, with humor and critique aimed at Bryan and lawmakers.
Iowa banks hold 178 institutions with 304,794.04 in deposits and 296,025,000 loaned out. They report only about 10, by amount, in actual money on hand including legal tender, gold and silver coins.
Attorney General Robbins rules bees are not domestic animals and municipalities cannot ban them running at large. This decision marks another Iowa apiary win for the industry against local ordinances.
Instructions from the postmaster general set August 15 as the start date for new parcel post rates. Aimed at undercutting express companies, the reform increases parcel size limits and lowers charges for local deliveries up to 20 pounds and shipments up to 150 miles for perishables. The table shows five cents for the first pound and one cent for each additional two pounds locally, with different terms for first and second zones.
Iowa's executive council fixed higher overall valuations for 1913, raising taxable value by over 30 percent to about 920 million while lowering the state levy to 2.9 mills from 3.4. Farm lands rose roughly 15 percent, railroads gained over twelve million in value, and town lots saw varied increases across counties with Franklin, Washington and Webster lowering valuations. The report notes Marshall county lands excluded, and adjustments used to balance land class values against market sales.
Louisiana Democrat Senator Thornton denounces the tariff bill over the free sugar provision. He argues duty reduction must align with the party platform and cites a 1912 Democratic minority report signed by Bailey Simmons Stone Williams Kern and Johnson.
A new regulation by the Animal Health commission requires that all swine shown at Iowa fairs carry a certificate of hog cholera immunization within thirty days before the fair. The rule also covers imported swine. If using the simultaneous method, it must be applied at least thirty days before exhibition or import. Hogs immunized by the simultaneous method must be isolated and kept under strict quarantine for thirty days.
Deputy treasurer Quincy A. Willis announced July 1918 inheritance tax receipts were the highest for any July except the law’s first year, with eight year figures showing notable totals. Fiscal year 1913 topped prior years with 821,755.89. Willis noted the tax yields about a third of a mill tax.
The federal judges Smith McPherson and Van Valkenberg ruled the winter law fixing Des Moines state fair round trip rates at a cent and a half invalid. They granted a temporary injunction upon eight railroads filing bonds of 85000 each. The court held that private ownership features cannot be ignored by law and that government control cannot assume ownership.
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