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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1914
Page
1
Weekly Decorah Republican listing includes EK Bailey & Son advertising, office hours, and contact details. Doctors Urban Urban and Amy shown with offices in Decorah, plus local attorney, mortgage, and insurance services. Store and goods ads note dry goods groceries and general merchandise with addresses in Decorah Iowa.
The Town Soldiers' Home reports 117 members died in 1913 and 100 in the year before. Despite a larger membership, February had the heaviest death rate with sixteen deaths.
Rates show express firms cutting costs against parcel post with discounts of 15 to 50 percent. Based on 100 pounds plus a 20 cent terminal fee, examples include Milwaukee ten pounds 38 cents, New York ten pounds 51 cents, Chicago ten pounds 26 cents, and Los Angeles ten pounds about 1.40 dollars, with parcel post prices noted for comparison.
An 1870 1882 agents time book in McGregor lists W. C. Brown as night operator at North Metregor in April May and June with a salary of 35 a month. The article notes Brown’s later return to Lime Springs Iowa to farm after resigning the New York Central presidency amid railroad career coverage.
The Broadmoor and Perth prisons enjoy a free supply of fine pipe tobacco cigars and cigarettes, costing the government nothing. Smugglers in England fund the smoking of the criminal elite while Rogland fills tobacco boxes at Derth and Broadmeoor in London Telegraph.
The state encampment of the G. A. R. department of Town is fixed for June 16, 17 and 18 in Burlington. Dates chosen by department commander Adjutant Newman and the Burlington Commercial Club to enable Commander in Chief Washington Gardner of Michigan to attend the reunion of lower veterans.
Gov. Clarke secures nomination ranks from the secretary of state and announces immediate entry into the renomination contest. He has named several speaking dates and will defend the state house grounds enlargement plan.
Three congressional committees monitor the Iowa Second district race to replace the late Pepper. Democrats back an aggressive campaign with Pepper’s ally Doremus guiding the effort while Republicans expect an easy victory for Woods’s faction. Progressives may field Muscatine City Attorney Hanley with strong speakers touring the state.
H C Beard of the state highway commission met with the executive committee of the state department of agriculture to arrange road demonstrations for the next state fair. They aim to build at least two kinds of hard roads on the fair grounds in September, including cement unfinished surface cement with asphalt and macadam.
The article praises Italian artisans in Florence who assemble glass and stone grains smaller than a mustard seed to form detailed flowers and insects. It also notes an Italian woman who painted a landscape with a windmill, millers, a cart and horse, and passengers, with minute precision.
A note traces the phrase to a biblical line about a bird of the air carrying voices and wings telling the matter from Ecclesiastes. The text suggests the proverb’s mischievous implication that one’s thoughts and speech may be exposed by a talking bird. The quotation targets the idea of leaks and hidden communications.
Iowa beef experts at the annual Towa Beef Producers’ convention warned that world shortages, range loss, and feed costs will keep beef prices high. Dean Charles F. Curtiss urged reliance on corn belt feedstocks and early maturing stock to finish cattle in 14 to 18 months. Prof. W. H. Pew and Charles Escher supported breeding for early maturity and emphasized yearling steers as ideal for butchers. The group voted to run two beefsteak trains next year and to promote calf shows at state courses and institutes. Officers elected: President Charles Escher. VP C. W. Huntley. Secretary George H. Burge. Treasurer C. S. Hechtner. Rex Beresford named beef cattle specialist.
Mary Heaton Vorse kicks off Adventures in Childhood in the February Woman's Home Companion with a critique of corporal punishment. She argues that focusing on spanking diverts attention from being and harms children’s sense of safety, questioning parental violence as a method.
Philosophical reflection on childhood as a paradise shaping love and virtue. The text argues that without fatherhood and motherhood love alone cannot restrain human ferocity, contrasting earthly life with angelic existence and noting the importance of birth and death for human life.
A Chicago woman in Paris robbed her hostess of money and is jailed. The incident is linked to a lapse in good form as minted coins are deemed unsuitable souvenirs. The piece underscores social etiquette and the consequences of improper conduct abroad.
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