Decorah Optician Ad and Doctor Office Notes
The Decorah Republican Optician offers eye examinations and glasses with duplicate lenses. DRs STABO & CAMPBELL, physicians and surgeons, operate in Decorah Iowa with office hours 10 to 12 and 2 to 4. Sulphur steam baths and osteopathic services listed with locations and phone numbers. Attorney at Law has office over Bromley's Shoe Store on West Water Street Decorah.
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Physicians and Surgeons
Decorah State Bank
Citizens Savings Bank
D&s. Urban & Urban
Osteopathic Physicians
Decorah
Decorah Ave
Curtin’s
Bromley's Shoe ‘Store
West Water Street
Editorial Echoes of War and Civic Duty in Wartime America
A collage of commentary and verse reflects wartime sentiment. Minna Irving invokes Paul Revere as a symbol urging vigilance and unity against invasion, while editorials condemn self interest, praise national mobilization, and comment on social issues from clothing to conscription, rail nationalization, and race. The piece closes with local ads for insurance, ships, and dry goods in Decorah Iowa.
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Paul Revere
France
Minna Irving
Leslie
Public affairs and war notes from early Capitol days
A Washington influenced column covers wartime politics taxation and energy, praising Italian aviators and criticizing German propaganda while stressing the need to protect American industries and gold reserves. It notes fiscal highs in internal revenue, warns against free trade, and discusses railroads, Palestine, and British actions in the Middle East. It also highlights the Tommyhawk women in war service and Japan's Siberian forays, with warnings about Bolshevik risks.
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United States
Japan
Mexico
Iowa Tax total and county increases reported
Iowa tax estimates from one-fourth counties show state taxes rising about 3 million dollars over last year and overall tax take near 80 million, with the state levy up from 4.33 to 7.25 mills. County levies are being raised in all reported counties as data comes in.
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State Auditor's
Iowa
No Extra Session Reported by Des Moines Officials
Des Moines reports Governor W Harding has abandoned plans for a special war session of the Town legislature for the present. A lingering quip about the joke remains unclear as the matter stands.
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Des Moines
W. Harding
Karl L Siewers in Austin Aviation School Christmas Letter
Karl L Siewers writes from Austin Texas as a government aviation cadet on his twenty first birthday. He describes Christmas joy meals and a dance at the Capitol, messages read out, and a sense of homesickness amid training in wireless and machine gun work. He notes daily drill, uniforms, equipment, and hopes for photos, ending with a request for letters and pictures from family.
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Karl L. Siewers
Alf. Siewers
Prof. L. Siewers
Decorah
Karl
Government Aviation School
Austin
Texas
Uncle Sam
Mess Hall
Mess
State Capitol
Sam
Ft. Sheridan
Ft. Snelling
Kathryn
Mobilization Plan Aims 3 Million Workers For War Effort
The United States Employment Service, under the labor department, is charged with mobilizing about three million workers across agriculture shipbuilding and war plants. The plan seeks rapid service expansion to fill labor shortages without conscription, with 400000 mechanics targeted for shipyards to accelerate merchant marine completion. John Densmore of Montana will become national director, with Robert Watson and Chas Clayton as assistants and Samuel J Gompers succeeding Watson as chief clerk.
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United States Employment Service
Department of Labor
Department
John Densmore
Montana
Employment Service
Wilson
Robert Watson
Massachusetts
Chas. T Clayton
Maryland
Samuel J. Gompers
New York
Mr. Watson
Woman Suffrage Passes House In Washington Vote
The House approved a federal amendment for women’s constitutional enfranchisement by a 274 to 196 vote with 410 members voting. Democrats and Republicans supported. Progressives backed the opposition. The measure now faces an uncertain Senate outlook.
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Washington
Jam
Susan B. Anthony
Wilson
Senate
Petrified Forests of Arizona Reborn as Crystals
Geologists note the petrified trees of Arizona have transformed into agate and amethyst after ancient seas deposited silica. The fossilized trunks, once submerged underwater, were raised to the land as carboniferous stone. Age estimates place them around 50 million years old.
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Arizona
War Bread Era Looms As Mills Switched To War Flour
A national wheat conservation order forces all mills including Decorah’s to halt regular white flour and produce war flour for war bread. The change, effective January 25, aims to save wheat for allies, with darker but wholesome bread. Families may store only a thirty day supply.
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Ice Cave
Decorah
United States
Decorah Millers
Tag Your Shovel Day Marks War Time Coal Effort
The Fuel Administration designates January 30 for Tag Your Shovel Day with school children nationwide urged to tag each coal shovel. The aim is to curb coal use for the war effort and make it a school holiday. Each tag bears the slogan Save that shovelful of coal a day for Uncle Sam with saving hints on the reverse.
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The
Fuel Administration
Uncle Sam
Mississippi Votes Dry Amendment Passes In Quick Vote
Mississippi legislature affirms the national constitutional liquor prohibition amendment after a brief fifteen minute consideration with eight dissenting votes. Virginia also ratifies the amendment in a parallel action.
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Mississippi
Virginia
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Jerusalem
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