Decorah Republican Optician and Dry Goods Firm Ad
Eye care services offered with glasses duplication in Pecorah Iowa. Physicians and Surgeons listed with office hours and contact. Also a Decorah dry goods store promoting fine dress goods trimmings and full line of dry goods with locations at Decorah state bank building and corner Water and Washington Streets.
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Physicians and Surgeons
Decorah State Bank
Bromley'’s
West Water Street
Decorah
Iowa
Washington Sts
Weat Wa ‘Water St
Editorial on war spirit and national resolve in 1918 era
The panel articulates patriotic duty amid wartime, praising flag symbolism and sacrifice. It cites Pershing, British actions in the Middle East, American loans and bonds, social commentary, and calls for unity to speed the war effort and sustain liberty.
Government Says Tax Payers Must File 1099 Reports
Congress requires every person and every organization who paid $800 or more to another party to report the payment name address and amount to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Use Form 1099 obtained from collectors offices. Return by March 1, 1918 with Form 1096.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Washington
Five Food Groups for Varied Daily Diet
The guide urges a balanced daily intake from five groups to ensure nourishment warmth and work energy. It highlights fruits and vegetables milk meat eggs cheese fish peas beans nuts cereals sweets and fats as essential components for health flavor and utilization.
New York War Era Notes From Ben Bear
Ben Bear reports on living under food and fuel orders in New York City amid World War I. He notes coal shortages, heavy cold, and bustling factories supplying the government. He describes subway growth, automat dining, theaters, and the public’s effort to “win this war” through rationing and support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican
Chicago
Century Limited
New York
Hudson River
Albany
Washington
Tuscania
America
Red Cross
Tloover
Broadway
Fuel and Food Administration
Cohan & Harris’ Theatre
Grant Mitchell
Cohan & Harris
Decorah
Canal Street
Forty-second Street
Brooklyn
Shonts
New York City
Jellicoe
Ben Bear
Substituting Barley Flour in Wheat Breads and Bakes
Circulation advises using barley flour to reduce wheat flour by 25 percent to aid war needs. It lists percentages for dusting soups crusts batters and various breads and pastries and notes barley’s flavor and quicker browning. It urges informing the public about barley flour benefits.
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L. A. Marsh
Sprague, Warner & Co
Europe
Glass in Flour Endangers Cedar County Children
Mrs. Turner fed her children bread baked from flour containing glass. A four year old reported a bleeding tongue, and the slices sparkled with glass. The flour was seized by county authorities for investigation as part of the incident.
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Will Turner
Cedar County
Tuscania Sinking Death Toll Seen Near Two Hundred
Reports from London and Washington update the Tuscania disaster. About 2,177 military passengers and 2 civilians were aboard when a torpedoed sinking off the Irish coast claimed many lives. initial tallies ranged from 101 to 210 with survivors being traced by war department lists and muster rolls.
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Tuscania
London
Washington
Committee On Public Information Today
War Department
Embarkation
Jin
Russia quits war declares demobilization after Brest-Litovsk dispatch
Amsterdam reports Russia ends state of war with Germany Austria Hungary and others. Bolshevik government declares war ended and orders full demobilization on all fronts while peace talks with central powers proceed.
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Amsterdam
Russia
Brest-Litovsk
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Turkey
Bulgaria
Petrograd
Ukraine
Roumania
Save the Hens
Washington reports the United States Department of Agriculture warns that every laying hen sold before May 1 reduces national egg supply by about 30 eggs. The message urges farmers to keep hens for food production, noting eggs are a net gain in human food and hens remain valuable meat.
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Washington, D. C
United States Department of Agriculture
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Winneshiek Civ
Foreign County
Canada
Mexico
Inneshiek County
Winneshiek & Es
Cation
Standard
EB. R. Acres
Ben Bear Block
Becorah
M. J. Soukup
Pecorah
PRS
Stabo & Campbell
Hokg, M. DB
Citizens Savings Bank
DRS. Urban & Urban
Osteopathic Physicians
Harriette B. Amy, M. D
Decorah Ave
A. © Woopward, M. D
H . F. Barthell
Justice of the Peace
National Bank
E. P. Curtine
W. ™. Strand
Attorney At Law
E. P. Johnson Building
Lutheran Publishing House
ENGIR
Steamship Agency
Main Street
Standard Phone 104
Mort & CO
K. I. Haugen
Phoebe Lincoln
River St
J. C. Beard
Minneapolis News
United States
Army
Navy
Palestine
Jerusalem
Bosphorus
Constantinople
State Agricultural College of
Misssouri
H. G. Windsor
Booneville
U. S
McAdoo
China
Japan
Cologne
Carranza
Jaffa
Simon the Tanker
St. Peter
Georges Carpentier
Jess Willard
Minneapolis
la Follette
Landeen
Minnesota
Austria
Reed
Missouri
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Kaiser Wilhelm
Spain
Holland
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Belgium
Michael Idvorsky Pupin
Columbia College
Thas
Papin
Servia
Leipziger Volks Zeitung
East
West
Valley Forge
Camp Upton
Sth Avenue
France
Ritz-Carlton
Sherry’s
Delmonico’s
Fies Mae
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