13 Dec 1917
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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1917
Page
1
Local paper lists advertisers in Decorah including K Bailey & Son and various professionals. Entries mention legal notices rates, subscriptions, business cards, and services from doctors dentists opticians and attorneys with addresses and phone numbers in Decorah Iowa.
Lutheran Publishing House offers printing and bookbinding at fair prices with edition work and magazines as a specialty at Decorah Iowa. Pire and Tornado Insurance and Steamship Agency listed at 406 Main Street with Standard Phone 104. Ben Bear Co offers clothing wholesale and retail and full dry goods line with trimmings and goods for men and boys at Corner Water and Washington Streets Decorah Iowa.
General merchant HAUGEN offers dry goods groceries and apparel at 311 813 West Water Street Decorah Iowa with a wide range of items for everyday needs and seasonal sales.
Editorial lament and patriotic rallying cry from World War I era urging prompt bill payment, thrift, home front sacrifice, and enlistment. It blends verses about America aiding France and Belgium with social commentary on economy, labor, tariffs, and public duty, naming figures like Nicholas Romanoff and William Jennings Bryan while praising effort at home and in the trenches.
The Senate passed the Austria war resolution 74 to 0 amid brief debate, with Gronna Norris and Vardaman voting no on a German war declaration earlier. House concurrence followed as President Wilson’s signature remained, while Representative London faced attack for opposing the war measure.
The article explains that casualty reports are promptly wired to Washington and released for publication, and soldiers are urged to keep in touch with relatives. It notes post cards for health and mail updates, postal free dispatch, and methods to identify regimental assignments. A week’s mail showed 1,674 undelivered or insufficient addresses, 1,232 completed, 123 returned, 58 to dead-letter, with remaining held for later correction.
Iowa food administration urges citizens to reduce sugar and flour use and to enforce quantity limits. Retailers must sell licensed commodities at reasonable prices, with flour limited to one bag per family and sugar to ten pounds, and wholesalers must obtain a license. Reports of hoarding or violations go to the Burlington office.
A published list of new foodstuffs for Germany includes concentrated straw fodder ground grape pips and various additives for table use. Also noted are rhubarb leaves seaweed straw meal crushed maize ears heather stalks and other items. English reports warn rhubarb leaves as greens can be dangerous with illness cases linked to leaf blades.
Because warm clothing is insufficient to equip 500,000 more draftees, their entry into government service is delayed to late March. The piece notes farm labor can sustain family livelihoods during wartime and asserts America will win the war if it does not lose.
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