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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1916
Page
1
The Decorah Republican lists weekly postal details and advertising rates for Winneshiek county, notes business cards and legal ads, and prints a dense directory of local medical doctors and services with office hours and contact numbers. It also includes various local business lines such as printing, steamship agency, and retail updates.
A dense collection of editorial musings on war, politics, and society. It cites Wilson, Bryan, Taft, and Roosevelt while joking about conscription, tariffs, and the Senate. It notes submarine perils, vegetarian cures, and the economics of hogs and leather with sharp, period voice.
D W Norris of the Marshalltown Times Republican and head of the Better Roads commission urges bond financing to build permanent county road grades and gravel surfaces. He argues bonding and auto license revenues could fund fifty miles of paved county roads in every county and replace wooden bridges with masonry without raising taxes.
Congress and the diplomatic corps were stirred after President Wilson’s Topeka speech warning it may be necessary to use U S forces to vindicate Americans rights under international law. He said America will insist on trading with the world and will respect but contest blockades.
The Iowa butter trademark aims to raise quality with a uniform market and higher value. Butter sold under the trademark must come from creameries meeting Iowa sanitary law with a score of 85 plus, and quality scoring at least 75 with 80 percent butterfat and 16 percent mixture. No preservatives or adulterants allowed. The remainder is unrelated text about a butterfly and a supposed Lt Tolid.
The Decoran Republican presents bulletins from opposing suffrage factions with disclaimers on responsibility for statements. It reprints articles from The Remonstrance of Massachusetts Woman's Association Opposed to further extension of suffrage and from the Iowa Suffrage Association newsletter, highlighting contested views and author credits.
The remonstrance argues that woman suffrage changes attitudes more than laws, cites Miss Flora Dunlap and Mrs Pankhurst, notes Iowa women farmers’ influence with 16,000 farm women active and 2.5 million acres under female control, and urges granting voting rights to farm women ahead of the June 5 amendment. Bryant quote closes.
University of Iowa graduates accept teaching posts including H O DeGraff to Cedar Rapids and Arthur Williams to Norman Oklahoma. Baby Week nationwide March 4 11 to promote child welfare with lectures, health exhibits, and a plan by the Extension Division and federal agencies.
W R B Barney told Ames short course students Bremer County could produce butter worth 124,215,185 annually if all Iowa counties matched it. If top dairy methods were adopted statewide, annual butter production would reach 592,001,836 pounds worth about 150,780,400.50 dollars.
Albert B. Cummins United States senator from Iowa was filed with Minnesota secretary of state last Wednesday as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in the Minnesota primary in March. Governor B. W. McCall of Massachusetts withdrew his name from the slate at his own request.
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