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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
1
A compact, faded Decorah Republic an column lists local businesses and professionals. It includes addresses and services such as physicians lawyers optician and publishing house, with ads for medical and legal services, a sugar bowl ice cream factory, steamship agency, and clothing and accessories shops in Decorah Iowa.
A broad editorial collage reviews wartime politics and domestic woes. It notes food scarcity and rising costs, New York and Chicago social scenes, Prohibition trends, and public figures like Wilson and McAdoo. The piece juggles macro policy debate with local concerns about groceries, taxes, and daily life.
Iowa breeders celebrate a strong showing at the Chicago International Live Stock show with grand prizes for a Bel gian stallion and mare and multiple championships in swine and cattle. A party of South American buyers, attracted by Iowa's display, may visit large farms and invest in horses and cattle for export. The fifth annual Iowa Draft Horse Breeders association convention opens in Des Moines as talks of hosting the visitors continue.
Miss Alvina A. Jackson head of home economics at Bellevue college Omaha reports a family of five can live on 17 hours a day per person. Her bill of fare lists sugar coffee meat milk and produce with varied quantities and a total weekly health week observance in Iowa promotes health talks and home sanitation led by Dr. G J Sumner and Governor Clarke urging study of health problems.
LM Dorr an Interior Department inspector from Washington visits the Pike's Peak and Pictured Rocks area. He surveys points of interest and praises the beauty of the proposed park site. He will report his findings to the Interior Department.
The Town Beef Producers Association and Ames Extension report 238 boys earned a total profit of 6742.54 dollars from the yearlong baby beef contest. Average per calf profit was 23.33 dollars with calves weighing 93 708 pounds initially and finishing at 237 930 pounds. Total gain 144 132 pounds. cost 49 685.42 dollars.
The seventieth anniversary of Iowa joining the union is Dec. 28. President Polk signed the act in 1846 making Iowa a state on equal footing. Prof. Benjamin F. Shambaugh notes general satisfaction with state government and admission to the nation, with pioneers entering a new political life.
Frank H. C. Pellett, Iowa state bee inspector, calls to abolish his post and transfer duties to Iowa State College at Ames. He argues Iowa should harvest nectar with bees to save on sugar costs, proposing counties yield 300 000 to 1 000 000 pounds of honey annually, while warning diseases are decimating bees. He notes the governor and state spend millions on sugar for residents.
Dr. Lorin Stuckey of the University of Iowa excavates two mound groups along the Iowa River seventeen miles south of Iowa City. He studies human remains, copper ornament, stone axes, arrow points, and teeth to learn the mound builders antiquity and origins, possibly distinguishing Indians from earlier peoples.
A New York editor told Bache's Review his wisdom outshone printed politics. He warned his vote would shift from Taft to Hughes, criticizing cotton and wages. He argued voters no longer act on principle and blamed Wilson for failing to sustain conditions.
A Kansas woman suffragist lashes out after learning the election result. She claims she worked for Hughes from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and transported 117 women and 3 colored men to the polls. She criticizes the peace stance and laments shifts in national mood, invoking the memory of her mother.
A glacial drift breccia from near Lake Superior, mainly chert, was donated to the University of Iowa's geological museum by HR Mosnat of Belle Plaine. Professor A O Thomas also acquired a conglomerate boulder from the Charles City region.
In the annual debate held in Minneapolis on December 8, Iowa defeated Minnesota supporting the negative side of the proposition that the government should own and operate the railroads. The strong Illinois team defeated the Iowa affirmative on the same proposition. The text notes a separate quip about a man with money whose funny stories will always get a laugh.
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