Decorah Business Listings and Editorial Comment
Local ads list physicians lawyers merchants and services in Decorah Iowa including M D office public opinion building and J Thompson water street decorah. Lutheran Publishing House printers and bookbinders advertise printing services. Editorial comment reflects wartime and prohibition debates, technology promises, and river transport plans influencing commerce and daily life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lutheran Publishing House
Decorah
Iowa
Governor to Head State in New Administrative Reform
Iowa committee reports a complete government reorganization with the governor as business head and a three-department system. Cabinet members will be appointed rather than elected, and a budgeting and advisory framework will centralize oversight and meet monthly.
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Villa
Mexico
Diaz
Europe
Iowa
Social Progress
Industries
Public Safety
Tdget
Executive Council
Register and Leader Plant Burns Fire at Des Moines
A Sunday morning blaze destroyed the Des Moines Register and Leader plant causing about 200000 dollars in losses. The fire began in the mailing room and investigators suspect a lighted cigarette discarded with waste paper. Local print shops offer facilities to publish the paper until a new plant is ready.
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Des Moines Register & Leader
Register & Leader
Iowa Legislature debates harsher prohibitory law enforcement
Des Moines 1915 report details Iowa House and Senate action on the mulct law repeal, liquor party splits, and dry votes. It notes Governor Clarke’s expected veto pressure, railroad rate pleas, and funding fights. Legal notices include temple of justice plans, chicken theft detection, and investigation requests into college charges.
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Des Moines
Town Senate
Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cannon
Utah
Joint Assembly
Rocky Mountain
Bronson
Black Hawk
Clarkson
Senate
Anderson
Davis
Greene
Montgomery
Ball
Barry
Bauman
Bingham
Brady
Brammer
Bruce
Buxton
Clark
Coast
Cochrane
Craven Crozier
Darrah
Dore
Durant
Eggleston
Elwood
Freeman
Garton
Gilbert
Gilmore
Grason
Gray
Hadley
Hall
Jessen
Johnston
Humboldt
Lucas
Jones
Cerro Gordo
Dickinson
Kepple
Kopp
Lee
Iowa
House
Pottawattamie
Johnson
Clarke
Dubuque
Temple of Justice
Kimball
Capitol
Friends of the
State House
State Board of Education
Judge Salingey
Law
J. H. Henderson
Commerce Counsel
Ole O. Roe
J. I. Gibson
Rate Department
The
Railroad Commission
Tenth
Grand
Dairy and Pure Food Commissioner
American steamer Evelyn sunk by mine near Borkum Island
The American steamer Evelyn was sunk by a mine off Borkum Island in the North Sea. President Wilson orders a rigid inquiry to determine responsibility, with potential German or English accountability depending on location and the type of weapon used. The vessel carried 1185 tons and left New York January 29 for Bremen.
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Kimball
Pottawattamie
London
Evelyn
Borkum Island
North Sea
New York
Bremen
Washington
Wilson
Borkum
Germany
Bryan
Daniels
Gerard
Holland
Prussia
Cuxhaven
Berlin
United States
Sn i Encicinen
Fire Losses Show Decline In 1914 Statewide Totals
Ole O. Roe state fire marshal reports 1914 fire losses statewide fell by 153000 from the previous year. Allamakee 18 fires 2404, Chickasaw 8 fires 22100, Clayton 21 fires 50352, Fayette 51 fires 105870, Howard 17 fires 60729, Winneshiek 13 fires 88570. Insurance covered losses. budget reform and national government budgeting discussed with Taft era investigations cited.
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Ole O. Roe
Allamakee County
Chickin
Clayton County
Faysette County
Howard County
Winnershiek County
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A. B. Bailey & Son, Inc
Winnebago Street
Canada
Winneshiek County
Tandard Telephone No
Otto
Ajelm
Hoec
S. Larsen Clothing Store
Rzcinski
Urban
Osteopathic Physicians
Decorah Bakery
Ae Harriette B. Amy
Decorah’ Ave
Curtin’s Addition
Woopward
M. D
J.& Thompson
Reed & Lennon's
Water Street
Town
H F. Barthell
Justice of the Peace
National Bank
E. W. Cutting
Attorney At Law
Bromley
West Water Street
W. M. Strand
P. Johnson Building
Supertare
L. Env
Pire and Tornado Insurance
Steamship Agency
Main Street
Standard
Ben Bear
Mott & CO
General Merchants
Erner Water
Washington Sts
Lowa
K. I. Haugen
General Merchant
Pry
West Water St
Mes
M. Seehaus
Locust
Japan
Brittania
England
Uncle Sam
Nevada
Henry Ford
Colorado
Congress
Kansas
Marconi
Curtiss
Switzerland
America
Pullman Sleeping Car Company
Peter
Paul
Sam
Pikeville
Charles W. Williams
Axtel and
Allerton
Billy Sunday
Henry W. Hodge
Costaie
Charles City
Johnson Brothers
Floyd County
Mississippi
Minneapolis Transportation Company
Minneapolis
New Orleans
St. Paul
Mississippi River
Panama Canal
Cuba
Phoebe Lincoln
Elty
River St
Chas. Trzcinski
Committee On
Iowa State
J. W. Jarnigan
Robinson
San Francisco
Chicken Thieves
Perkins
Delaware
State College
Ames
Senator White
Benton-Tama
W. J. Kennedy
J. AL. Trewin
Trewin
Kennedy
Senate Agricultural Committee
County Board of Supervisors
State Highway Commission
County Boards of Supervisors
Leas
State Board of Animal Health
J. J. Gibson
Guy Feeley
General Assembly
Cosson
Supreme Court
Kenyon
Taft
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