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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1917
Page
1
A provincial editorial page notes advertising rates for Winneshiek County and offers local business notices. It includes a poem by Horace S Keller praising soldiers, followed by medical and professional notices from Decorah Iowa, naming physicians, osteopaths, and a lawyer, with office details and services.
Local notices list Decorah Iowa merchants including Lutheran Publishing House and BEN BEAR CO with addresses on Main Street and Washington Street. The column blends business ads with wartime editorials criticizing Germany, praising American industry and projections for future postwar steel and souvenir markets.
A new war tax law requires documentary stamps on bonds of indemnity and indebtedness, capital stock issues, stock transfers, produce sales on exchanges, drafts, notes, deeds, customs entries, steamship tickets, proxies, power of attorney assignments, playing cards, and parcel post packages. Checks are exempt. Stamps sold at post offices. stock transfers and produce sales stamp distribution through revenue collectors. Expected to raise millions for the treasury, mirroring stamps used in the Spanish war and 1914 emergency revenue.
A. M. Spangler veteran of the Civil War died seven miles north of Webster City after four years illness with cancer. He was a member of the United States cavalry regiment famed for capturing Jeff Davis and received part of the reward offered.
National guardsmen from every state have arrived in France with the American Army. All units sailing from the United States are safe and some are already training near the front. They are being integrated into a homogeneous force under strong French support and are in good health.
The Council of National Defense at a special conference announced the creation of an American war council with sweeping priority powers. Members include Raker, Daniels, Lane, Houston, Redfield, Wilson, McAdoo, Turley, Hoover, Garfield, Willard, and Gifford. The council will supervise war and related industries and meet weekly.
The Town council and American Bar Association confirm 297 judges and attorneys to serve on county legal advisory boards. Three members per Iowa county will provide legal advice and help prepare claims and papers for local or district selective service boards. Members are permanent and unpaid for affidavits and related papers. In this district the appointed include Winneshiek Decorah Allamakee Waukon Chickasaw Clayton Elkader Howard Fayette Union and others with noted judges and attorneys named.
Provost Marshal General Crowder announces nationwide integration of police into the national army effort. Postal authorities will aid in delivering questionnaires and notices while local exemption boards register men for training camps. Police will arrest deserters and deliver inductees to camps with $50 rewards for unlawful evasion.
The Iowa State Council of Defense lists each county’s drafted men by unit and company to speed mail delivery. In this judicial district Allamakee county is in the 360th Infantry with headquarters and machine gun units A and I. Chickasaw county assigned to the 350th Infantry headquarters and supply company I. Clayton county to the 300th Infantry with companies I and M. Fayette county to the 350th Infantry headquarters with companies BE and I.
American engineers, the first U S troops in operations on the British front, played a prominent role in breaking the Hindenburg line. They labored on roads behind advancing British forces in the Somme region, laying railways under heavy shellfire and at all hours. The British praised their speed and endurance, praising the so called force of American athletes for their rigid rail work and willingness to risk danger to move supplies.
Fragmentary text notes Emily OBrien, wife of Col OBrien, seeking publication for her choice. References Civil War era, Col OBrien leading troops from McGregor and other northeastern districts. Mentions Matterns, Council Bulls, and Indian campaign signs.
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