Local Advertisers and Services in Decorah Iowa Listing
The Decorah Republican advertises subscriptions at 1.50 per year within Winneshiek County and 2.00 for outside areas and overseas. Business services include legal ads 16 cents a line, first insertion, and 5 cents for subsequent ones. Local merchants list optician, physicians, lawyers, insurance, printing, clothing, and dry goods with contact notes.
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Winneshiek County
Canada
Mexico
Standard Telephone
Editorial Verse on War and Politics From a Wartime Paper
A long editorial piece blends satirical anti German jibes with wartime appeals. It mocks Kaiser rhetoric, praises War Savings Stamps, and urges support for government bonds while urging farmers and press to back war efforts and economic aims. It references Hoover, Wilson, and various political figures.
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Wilson
Democratic Party
National Week of Song at Grand Opera House Crowded
A vast Winneshiek audience packed the Grand Opera House Friday for the National Week of Song patriotic event. Doors opened in a rush as supporters sought admission for soldiers bound for Camp Dodge, with about twelve hundred attendees and over $100 in receipts.
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Grand Opera House
Camp Dodge
Opera House
F. W. Conover
Soldier Boys
Sperati
John
Conover
J. A. Nelson
Nelson
France
Norman Willett
Red Cross
Price of Coal Under Government Control to Change
The Fuel Administration plans to end paid commissions to coal jobbers and raise mine prices slightly. Retailers can then sell coal cheaper, returning to pre war methods while eliminating exploitative schemes like guaranteed commissions and swapping. Officials will announce the mine price increase before April 1, 1918.
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United States Fuel Administration
Fuel Administration
Meatless Days Cut Beef Use in Four Months
The Food Administration says meatless days in the United States reduced beef consumption by 140 million pounds in four months. During this period, 145 million pounds of beef were exported to the Allies, along with 400 million pounds of pork products. The administration defended keeping beef and other meats under conservation rules to feed the Allies.
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United States
Food Administration
Reduced Rail Fare Authorized for Veterans Unions
Director General McAdoo authorizes railroads to grant 1 cent per mile for Grand Army of the Republic and United Confederate Veterans members and families to attend their annual reunions. Confederate Veterans plan to meet in Tulsa Oklahoma and the Grand Army in Portland Oregon next summer.
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McAdoo
Grand Army of the Republic
United Confederate Veterans
Confederate Veterans
Tulsa
Oklo
Portland
Ove
Archdiocese rallying priests for War Savings Stamp drive
Archbishop Keane of Iowa宣布 plans to write every Catholic priest in the state urging support for the War Savings Stamp campaign. Priests will preach the benefits and assist in selling stamps to parishioners.
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United States
Keane
Iowa
Proclamation Urges Russia to Defend Fatherland in War
Bolshevik leaders Lenine and Krylenko issue a defense to the death plea for Petrograd and the fatherland as German forces advance. The proclamation calls workers and peasants to destroy railways, dig trenches, and resist imperialist forces to save the revolution amid fears of Bolshevik dangers and Finland evacuation.
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Petrograd
Associated Press
Smolny Institute
Bolsoviki
People’s Commissaries
Lenine
Krylenko
London
Germany
Reuter
Kiev
Finland
Vvinsk
Werder
Lutsk
The Seven Commandments
A verse from the Chicago Tribune outlines a weekly diet rule set. It bans wheat and meat on various days, with specific meals affected and a note about pork avoidance on Saturday.
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Chicago Tribune
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EK. Bailey & Son, Inc
West Water Street
Ben Bear Block
M. J. Soukup
PRS
Stabo & Campbell
Physicians and Surgeons
Decorah State Bank
Horg, M. B
Citizens Savings Bank
DBS
Urban & Urban
Osteopathic Physicians
Harriette B. Amy, M.D
Decorah Ave
Curtin's Addition
Wooward, ™. D
H. F. Barthell
Attorney At Law and Justice of the Peace
National Bank
Attorney
Bremley
Decorah, I
W. ™ Strand
E. P. Johnson Building
Lutheran Publishing House
Pire and Tornado Insurance
Steamship Agency
Main Street
Standard Phone
Ren Bearco
Mott & Co
General Merchants
Corner Water
Washington Sta
I. Haugen
General Merchant
West Water St
Laddie
Kaiser
Lick
Berlin
Micks
County Clair
Washington
Napoleon
America
Congress
Mrs. Hoover
von Hertling
Russia
Mr. von Kuehlmann
Mr. von, K
Senator Stone
Missouri
Chamberlain
Oregon
Towa
Knights of Columbus
Hawkeye
Panama Canal
Armour Packing Company of
Chicago
William J. Stone
Japan
China
Europe
Secretary of the Treasury
Nelson Nn
Phoebe Lincoln
River St
J. C. Beard
Kerensky
Evar
Bureau of Standards
Mark
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