Decorah business directory listings for physicians and shops
Decorah Osteopathic Physicians Dr AMY and staff at 602 Decorah Ave Curtin addition offer hours 7 10 am 1 3 pm with standard phones. Barthell attorney at law JP practices collections at 1st door west of National Bank. Cutting attorney at 120 West Water over Bromley’s shoe store. Lutheran Publishing House printing binding Decorah Iowa. Enger insurer with Main Street agency 406. Be Bear clothing dealer Dry Goods K Haagen goods dealer West Water St Decorah. Riggs listing appears.
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E W. Cutting
Bromley
West Water Street
Decorah
Iowa
Joan
Editorial Comments on Current Events and Social Trends
A montage of observations on public life in 1914 includes jokes about turkey trots and tango bans, notes on Huerta and Villa in Mexico, wage earners and war debt, and a mix of civic trivia. It touches on Ford’s worker dividends, fame from sports, and calls for less idleness and more culture.
Man deserts bride after four days over shoe buttoning
A New York man abandoned his bride on Park Avenue after she asked him to button her shoes. The brief, printed in the Herald, laments what might have happened if she had asked him to button her dress.
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Park Avenue
New York Herald
State epidemiologist named for Iowa health program
The Iowa state board of health and the president of the state university plan a unified effort to prevent epidemics. Dr Woods of Indianapolis is named as the state epidemiologist, attached to the state laboratory, to work under the central health board.
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State Board of Health
State University
Towa
State Board
State Laboratory
Dr. Woods
Indianapolis
State Board of Control
Horse Back in Favor as Harness Makers See Car Decline
At the Western Harness Manufacturers and Dealers association meeting in Kansas City last week speakers argued the horse is returning in popularity while motor cars decline. Frank Jackson of Chicago predicted a bright harness outlook and noted more buggies were produced and sold last year than in fifteen years, with motor car sales dropping.
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Western Harness Manufacturers and Dealers’ Association
Kansas City
Frank Jackson
Chicago
Jackson
Transient Merchant Law Declared Unconstitutional
Judge Hayes in Indianola district court directed a verdict for the defendant in the Marshalltown Buggy Co case. The transient merchant law, pushed by the Towa Retail Merchants association, was struck down as unconstitutional. the license fee of 200 is challenged as exorbitant.
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Towa
Towa Retail Merchants’ Association
Hayes
Indianola
Marshalltown Buggy Co
A. L. Osborn
A. T. Tuttle
Meredith Likely Democratic Nominee for Governor
Des Moines businessman KE T Meredith appears set to enter the race for governor as a Democratic candidate. Although he has not officially announced, letters to party leaders last week suggest strong intent to run and invite guidance on entering the contest.
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Colorado
Revenue Department
Uncle Sam
KE. T. Meredith
Des Moines
Meredith
The Waverly Sugar Factory Is Quitting Beet Sugar
The Waverly Independent reports the local beet sugar plant will shut down due to a tariff that makes beet sugar noncompetitive. The closure affects 20 to 40 families employed full time and 200 to 300 part time workers, with 59 local stockholders and 66 Michigan investors facing losses as wholesale sugar prices drop and business declines.
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Waverly
Bremer Avenue Bridge
Wall Street
Europe
Cuba
United States
Iowa
Michigan
Sugar Trust
Roller Towel Banished in Iowa Hotels and Public Buildings
The state board of health ordered discontinuance of the roller towel in all hotels restaurants public buildings and public toilets across Iowa. Local health boards are enjoined to adopt and enforce the rule with hotel inspectors reporting compliance from this date. An amendment to place the rule in the Code was removed before passage.
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Towa
State Board of Health
Iowa
Williams Nominated for Comptroller of the Currency
President Wilson nominated John Skelton Williams of Virginia as assistant secretary of the treasury for the comptroller of the currency and ex officio member of the Federal Reserve Board. He currently heads the fiscal bureaus as McAdoo’s top assistant in government finance. The comptroller’s office has been vacant for months.
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Wilson
John Skelton Williams
Virginia
the Treasury
Federal Reserve Board
Williams
McAdoo
Iowa dairy warns on foreign butter and quality
Iowa dairy commissioner W B Barney states New Zealand and Australian butter 12 000 miles away reaches U S markets and buyers in Iowa at 25 cents a pound. He notes Chicago samples score higher but not equal to top Iowa creamery butter and urges higher quality to sustain price.
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Towa
New Zealand
Australia
W. B. Barney
Iowa
Chicago
Pacific Coast
America
Cedar Rapids
State Dairy Commissioner
Barney
Chief Justice Ladd Takes Seat on State Supreme Bench
Justice Ladd assumed the chief justiceship on the state supreme court succeeding Justice Weaver who held the post last year. The full bench opened with all justices to hear rehearing arguments and certain cases. later the court will split with Weaver shifting to Ladd’s former division. Decisions won’t rush to end of term as constitutional cases await.
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Justice Ladd
Supreme Bench
Supreme Court
Justice Weaver
Weaver
Ladd
McKellar Bill Alarm Over Iowa Apples Finds Modifications
Iowa fruit men protested provisions of the McKellar cold storage bill arguing it would ban apples and other fruits from markets. Judge Towner discussed the issue with Representative McKellar who agreed the bill’s scope needed narrowing and pledged amendments to address the concerns.
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Iowa
McKellar
Washington
Judge Towner
Insurance Deposits Reach State Auditor Threshold
The total of insurance company deposits on file with the state auditor surpassed four million dollars recently. With spring withdrawals and large deposits continuing, insurers will soon file their annual reports and pay state taxes directly to the department.
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Insurance Department
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