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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1916
Page
1
Decorah weekly notice page lists medical doctors, businesses, and services with offices on West Water Street and nearby streets. It includes physicians, an ice cream factory, publishing house, and various merchants with contact details and hours.
A compendium of political musings and social observations covers wartime policy, suffrage debates, economic proposals, and public figures. The piece comments on leadership, industry, and cultural shifts, linking national events to everyday life and future outcomes.
Iowa marks 1915 with repeal of the mulet law and prohibition starting anew year. Consolidated schools rise from sixty five to one hundred fifty four by year end. Gov Clarkes good roads commission advances road building, bridges, and state capital grounds work. Crop year yields strong corn oats wheat hay and barley with record hay. State business volume rises, failures few, fires scarce.
The report highlights steam laundries in Towa dropping from 18 to 17 between 1909 and 1914 with business volume rising state wide by about 40 percent. It also covers debates over compulsory military service, Ambassadorial briefings, cable leaks, and Leonard Ayres on word usage and spelling efficiency in American writing.
State Superintendent Devoe urges statewide observance of Iowa Day in schools to highlight Iowa’s social moral industrial and educational strengths. He seeks input from local industries and invites printed material or photographs to be included in a forthcoming bulletin and promises to return usable copies.
In northwest Davenport on Clay street, J. H. Paarmann and neighbor Dr. Kane Struck cultivate a year round bird haven. Winter visitors include tufted titmice, chickadees, woodpeckers, redbirds and snowbirds with feeders, water dishes, and targeted sparrow removal to attract sustained avian residents.
Minnesota conservatives lack a candidate after President Northrup declines a bid. Burton of Ohio is rumored as a possible alternative. Senator Cummins states he will not enter the Illinois primary, citing overzealous clerks and a desire to avoid a clash with Senator Sherman. His stance reflects a western strategy for the Republican nomination.
A historical note recalls Iowa’s December 28 1846 admission to the union and the state's early milestones. It cites population counts in 1846 and at the last census, the first territorial conventions, the constitution, and initial representatives. It ends with a wry line about heroes having receipted bills.
The state automobile department collected 1915 fees totaling LISIT THA, reported December 31. Receipts for calendar year 1914 stood at $1,040,135, marking an increase of $477,608 to nearly half a million dollars.
About 4 million children aged four to six in the United States are considered kindergarten age. Only around 300,000 are enrolled in public and private kindergartens, with likely no more than 3,000 in Montessori schools.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, new national president of the suffrage association, is a former Iowa woman whose home was in Mason City.
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