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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1917
Page
8
Decorah Iowa noting offices for Physician and Surgeon and JPRS Urban Urban Osteopathic Physicians with bath services. Also listing Dr Jarriette B Amy attorney at law and W T M Strand practicing in all courts with clothing wholesale and retail and menswear offerings. Forty one years of square dealing.
General Merchants offer fine dress goods trimmings and a full line of dry goods and notions. Located at the corner of Water and Washington Streets in Decorah Iowa. K HAUGEN.
Camp Dodge soldiers and officers adjust to a Christmas in camp after a Thursday order revoking all leaves. Some passes may still be possible for nearby towns, but many trips are unlikely to avoid discrimination. News of the era spreads as the Three Hundred Thirteenth engineers mourn “Old Man Furlough” and letters home. units planned special trains and dinners, with religious services and gifts prepared by YMCAs and KCs.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad speeds up Cascade Mountain section electrification to conserve fuel. Contracts for freight locomotives and transforming gear went to General Electric. The 211 mile segment plus existing 440 miles in Bitterroot, Rocky and Belt ranges link Avery Idaho and Harlowton Montana.
Alaska's Tanana field near Fairbanks is to supply the government railroad Seward to Fairbanks. Though lignite with low grade, the coal offers vital fuel power for Fairbanks and Yukon placer camps. USGS estimates about 19 billion tons of lignite in the Tanana field. The Argonaut.
The U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld the Towa collateral inheritance tax at five percent on legacies to state citizens and twenty percent on bequests to alien non residents. The court also sustained North Dakota’s inheritance tax of twenty-five percent on property willed to aliens abroad, with 1 to 2 percent on bequests to resident citizens.
British forces seize Jerusalem completing a long period of Muslim control that began when the Turks took the Holy City. The last Christian ruler was Frederick II, whose dominion stretched from 1229 to 1244.
In Dubuque Iowa on December 11 1917 the Internal Revenue Service announced that government officers will canvass counties to aid taxpayers in filing 1917 income returns. Returns are due March 1 1918. Officers will explain net income rules and new exemptions of 1000 and 2000 dollars. Taxpayers must seek out the collector or face penalties.
The Chinese kou chi or vegetable lamb is described as a natural fetish viewed as partly plant and partly animal. Proponents claim the plant resembles a lamb or pig, with rhizome roots growing downward into the earth. They say it becomes animal at full size and feeds on nearby plant shoots.
Percival Powell argues that the earth cannot outlive the sun, but may lose its air first as atmospheric escape drains spaceward. Life on the planet would end from lack of air long before the sun cools. The author suggests the final fate is death from suffocation rather than cold, given cosmic timescales.
The article notes William Willet's invention of daylight saving to extend summer daylight by shifting clocks. It lists countries embracing the scheme, including Germany, Austria, Turkey, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Holland, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, England, and Denmark, plus Nova Scotia and some U S plants. It also advertises Burdock Blood Bitters claiming to purify blood and aid digestion, priced $1.25.
Edison Works at Harrison New Jersey conducted factory tests showing dirt on lamps reduces candle power by 13 to 27 percent depending on cleaning interval. After one month, illumination requires over 16 percent more wattage. after three weeks almost 22 percent more to match cleaned lamps.
The four notices from July to May 1915 promise neutral shipping rights and warning before sinking ships, with safety of noncombatants. Each pledge limits submarine actions, but the text concludes that all of them were ruthlessly broken by Germany.
The passage explains how tender grass blades penetrate compact soil, likening the process to opening a tin of condensed milk. Each blade has a fine point that, by growing life, pushes between soil particles to create a path for the rest to follow.
The World proclaims value for a household news need during the great world war. It highlights wartime reports from France and Europe, emphasizes the paper’s daily-like coverage at a weekly price, and notes a combined offer with The Decorah Republican for one year at a bargain rate of $2.30. The regular two-paper price would be $2.50.
A distressed ad promises a mail in trial package of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound and Foley Kidney Pills with a Chicago address. The notice closes with a Cologne Germany hint of mandatory female labor and ends mentioning Decorah Furniture for family gifts.
A Warsaw proclamation claimed German officials offered Polish mothers 150 marks for a boy and 100 for a girl to send children to Germany for upbringing. It argued such coercion was a cruel wartime tactic to fashion cannon fodder, noting many Polish families refused and some children under seven had died.
The narrator and Atherton examine mud holes and a deep bootprint in a brookside path. They infer someone passed since snowmelt and that another fisherman avoided the mud by going around. They press on toward the hotel, with the scene ending as the narrative continues next week.
Paul Gary of Anderson Indiana is rejected by a Louisville recruiting station after a Marine sergeant notes the loss of an eye. Gary explains the eye was made in Germany and asks to take it back, joking about mail return. He is advised to mail the eye.
Ready Now at Old Prices. Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is selling at prewar prices making it a ready to use remedy for coughs colds croup and la grippe. Son's Pharmacy offers this well known cough medicine for home use with less effort than mixing ingredients.
J. E. Colver of Los Angeles declares Foley Cathartic Tablets best remedy after 56 years of using various cathartics. He reports effective constipation relief with no unpleasant aftereffects and credits Engbertson's Pharmacy for the advertisement.
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