Decorah Business Directory Listings and Providers
A scattered Decorah directory lists doctors attorneys merchants and shops with addresses and phones. Entries include Urban and Urban M D over Decorah Bakery, Public Opinion Building doctor services and women health, Thompson near Reed and Lennons Water Street, Barthell attorney at law and justice of the peace, Cutting attorney over Bromley’s shoe store, Strand money lender in FR P Johnson building, Enger street Decorah clothing and dry goods dealer, and Mrs M Seehuus in Decorah with general merchandise.
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Bromley
West Water Street
Decorah
Let Me Be a Little Kinder and Blinder War Reflections
Editorial snippets reflect wartime humor and politics with a mix of quips about taxes food prices and public sentiment. The piece lampshades partisan fault lines in 1910s America while noting war impacts on markets leaders and daily life and urging a kinder blinder stance toward others.
Christmas Hymn and Diplomat W H Rockhill Obituary
Christmas verse introduces W H Rockhill who died in Honolulu, a renowned American diplomat and ethnology scholar noted for his international work and race studies. The article also reports Iowa apple harvests, prices, and regional market contrasts, highlighting prosperous farm growers in southwestern Iowa and statewide estimates by Wesley Greene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
C. O. Garrett
Mitchellville
Acre
Garrett
Des Moines
J. M. Bechtel
Hamburg
C. Fe, Mincer
Mr. Mincer
Wesley Greene
Spanish Monteros Guard Night Palace in Silent Rounds
The Monteros, native Espinosa soldiers, serve as royal bodyguards at the Spanish palace. In historic dress they post at midnight outside the king and queen’s rooms, speaking only with sighs and countersign. They patrol halls all night and vanish at dawn.
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Buckingham Palace
London
Monteros
Espinosa
Royal Palace
City of Snow White Domes in Algeria
El-Oued near the extreme south of Constan tinople province in Algeria is famed for its snow white domes or polas. With about 8 000 residents its many cupolas earned it the nickname city of a thousand cupolas. Homes are white plaster and, from a distance, resemble coal ovens due to the domes’ glare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
El-Oued
Constantinople
Algeria
el Oued
Americans Above All Declaration on July 4 1897
A patriotic message urges unity over party lines, stressing that Americans are citizens first and should prioritize the welfare of all people. The note invokes God’s blessing on efforts that revive patriotism and rebuke indifference and lawlessness, referencing Win, McKinley and the date July 4 1897.
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Win
McKinley
Christmas Club Supports Johnson County Savings Bank
The Christmas fund by Johnson County Savings Bank sent out thousands in December through its Christmas club. Checks ranged from 12.50 to 63.75 dollars to 00 members, continuing a program started last year.
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Johnson County Savings Bank Christmas Fund
Festival for the Young Christmas Gift Wish
Christmas is a children’s festival and a chance for adults to give joy through simple gifts. The piece urges everyone to make a needy child’s Christmas memorable and to act kindly, as such acts shape the child’s life beyond family ties.
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Santa Claus
The First Christmas Card Created by W C T Dobson
The article traces the origin of Christmas cards to English painter W C T Dobson in December 1844. He made a central family dinner scene with Christmas wishes and benevolent acts on the sides. The concept spread as more artists copied it and printers commercialized the idea, expanding to many shop windows within a few years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Berlin
Paris
Europe
Congress
W. C. T. Dobson
Dobson
Deepest Wells in the World Reach 7 348 Feet in Silesia
The World’s deepest bore is at Cawhow in upper Silesia reaching 7 348 feet while American wells rank next with depth figures at McDonald Pennsylvania 6 860 feet Nam Heights Connecticut 6 04 feet and Derrick City Pennsylvania 5 820 feet. Despite depths little geology is learned due to rock bed dipping and shallow wells tapping old formations.
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Cawhow
Upper Silesia
America
McDonald Ta
Pittsburgh
Putnam Heights
Conn
Derrick City
Briar Pipe Making Centered in St Claude France
The briar pipe industry in France centers in St Claude Jura where pipes and related smoking items are manufactured. Briar roots come mainly from Sicily Calabria Corsica and Algeria supplying the French producers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
St. Claude
Department of
Jura
Sicily
Calabria
Corsica
Algeria
Supreme Court Bans Saloons In Three Iowa Rulings
Three major liquor rulings were issued Saturday. The Valley Junction consent petition was declared insufficient. Waterloo saloons are refused authority to reopen. Plymouth county consent petitions for revival were annulled.
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Supreme Court
Towaim
Valley Junction
Waterloo
Plymouth County
Christmas on the Ocean Dolls for London’s Christmas
Notices aboard Atlantic liners invite passengers to dress undressed dolls for distribution to poor London children at Christmas. Stewardesses oversee the dolls and materials are sold on board. A man and his wife tie for first place.
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London
The Christmas Angel by Rose Terry Cooke
Christmas angel arrives with flute and psalm bringing peace and bright hopes to youths and maidens. The gentle heralds good news, tender thoughts, and visions of delight as the season inspires calm and grace.
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Rose Terry Cooke
Christmas Greens And The Great Storm Of 1141
An old English description notes homes and parish churches adorned with holm ivy bays and greens during Christmas. It recalls a tempest in 1141 that set Pauls steeple ablaze and a Christmas standard of trees placed in the street was torn up by a malignant Spirit as stones spilled into houses and streets.
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Paul
The Magic of Christmas Reflections
A Dickens inspired meditation on the season's power to soften hearts and bridge estrangements. It imagines parents and children moved by small acts of love during Christmas, rekindling tenderness and memory beyond ordinary times.
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Charles Dickens
Christmas in Bethlehem and the Holy Land
Christmas Day in Bethlehem draws thousands from around the world to Palestine. Pilgrims stay in Jerusalem and travel six miles south to Bethlehem, streaming along the hill route on Christmas morning to witness the ceremonies.
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Holy Land
Palestine
Jerusalem
Bethlehem
The Bells Message On Christmas Charity
The Christmas bells urge the poor to find solidarity in Jesus Christ. The text rejects philosopher's excuses for misery and poverty, claiming they are unnatural and proposes the remedy of loving one another as Christ loved.
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Jesus
Jesus Christ
Christ
Cheney
The Birds Yuletide Gift And Feeding Birds At Christmas
Christmas feeding of birds is common in Norway and Sweden where oats are placed on roofs trees and fences. Poor families save pennies to buy oats for the birds as a heartwarming custom that could inspire other nations to adopt similar practice.
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Lord Kitchener
Lloyds
Norway
Sweden
Santa Claus First Appeared in New Amsterdam
The text notes that Santa Claus first appeared in New York, then called New Amsterdam, as part of Dutch influence that brought Christmas customs of love, sympathy, neighborly fellowship, and family festivity to American culture.
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New York
New Amsterdam
Santa Claus
The
Netherlands
Knickerbockers
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A. B. Bailey & Son, Inc
Proprietor
Winnebago Street
Canada
Mexico
Winneshiek County
Tandard Ephone No
Zs J. Daly
Larsen Clothing Store
C. 1086
M.D
Citizens Savings UK
D.S. . Jewell
Mesracinski
DRS. Urban & “Urban
Osteopathic Physicians
Decorah Bakery
Harriette B. Amy
Decorahve
Curtin
A.¢ Woopward, M. D
Apeace
Thompson
Reed & Lennon's
Water Street
H. F. Barthell
Attorney At Law and Justice of the Peace
National Bank
E. W. Cutting
Attorney At Law
W. M. Strand
FR. P. Johnson
Lutheran Publishing House
Lutheran
M. Enger
Decorgt
Bex Bear
Mort & Co
General Merchants
Eree Arestia
Washington Sts
Reegrah
Lew Sts
General Merchant
Lowa
Mes
M. Seehuus
Locust, Lowa
Phoebe Lincoln
River St
Republican
Satan
Democratic Party
R Free
St. Louis
Argentina
Commonwealth
Hayes
Cuba
Manson
Wm. J. Bryan
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Irvin
Cobb
Mr. Cobb
Louisiana
Peter Hepburn
Maurice Connolly
A. B. Cummins
Wilson
House of Congress
Senate
Ceedatha
Norman Macktein
New York Democracy
Buffalo Times
Old Earth
Christ Child
God
Wm. H. Rockhill
Honolulu
China
Thibet
Washington
Oregon
Phingtmay
lIowa
Festival For the Young
Christmas
Ocean
the Christmas Angel
Merry
England
Santa
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