Local Decorah Advertisers and Services Catalog
The Decorah Republican details a broad local business directory listing doctors osteopathic and allopathic, lawyers, optician, insurance, publishing, banking, and merchants. It notes subscriptions rates for the county and out of county, advertising rates, and standard phone numbers for multiple Decorah establishments. It highlights service offerings from physicians, attorneys, and a general goods merchant across Decorah, Iowa.
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Weshiek County
Canada
Mexico
Eshiek County
K HAUGEN Dealer in Dry Goods in Decorah Iowa
K HAUGEN is listed as a local dealer of dry goods groceries car pets notions cloaks and shoes at 313 West Water Street Decorah Iowa with no additional context or narrative.
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Decorah
Iowa
West Water Street
Bromley's Shoe Store
Washington Sts
West Water St
Editorial on memory and war and public virtue here
Roscoe Gilmore Stott reflects on wartime memory and personal sacrifice. The piece surveys politics, charity, science, propaganda, and leadership, urging steadfast service and moral responsibility in a turbulent postwar world.
Proclamation Declares Thrift Day in Towa 1918
The governor proclaims February 3 1918 as Thrift Day urging all people to buy at least one five dollar United States War Savings Stamp and to promote thrift in churches schools and daily life to support the war effort and national savings drive. Des Moines January 16 1918 signed by Governor W L Harding and Secretary W S Allen.
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Russia
Alexis
France
New York City
East Side
Towa
National Movement For Saving
United
Des Moines
W. L. Harding
Garfield estate coal hoard sparks winter relief talk
In Mentor Ohio villagers faced a harsh cold snap with nine below zero and only five tons of coal in town. Three vacant Garfield estate houses reportedly held 32 tons of hard coal, drawing calls to seize the Garfield supply amid fuel shortages and appeals to Lake Erie administration for aid.
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Cleveland Leader
Garfield Estate
Harry A. Garfield
National Fuel Administrator
Garfield
A. Norton
Lake Mae Ee
State orders nearly ban lights and limit coal use in Iowa
State Fuel Administrator Charles Webster issued a sweeping order restricting lighting and hours for most businesses in Iowa starting Monday January 28. All nights except Saturday are lightless with Saturday immune, and stores face strict hours 8:30 to 5:30 while drugstores stay open until 10. Heat is to be kept to a minimum when closed and coal purchases limited to one load. Local fuel committees will enforce rules. unions and lodges urged to cut wasteful gatherings. The order remains in effect until Webster or state authority changes it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Charles Webster
Garfield
Webster
Des Moines Dispatch Warns of Non-Partisan League Drive in Iowa
A Des Moines agency reports the Non Partisan League plans a statewide campaign with one Ford car per county to April 1, an organizer in each of 99 counties, and a house to house canvass to build a farmer oriented socialist program. The note cites North Dakota upheaval, Wisconsin links, and probable state headquarters in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Ford Automobile Makers
Iowa
Fords
North Dakota
Congress
Wisconsin
G. O. Hangen
Maddock
N. D
Winneshirk County
Wearing Down the Kaiser with Thrift Stamps and Sacrifice
A persuasive wartime appeal likens the Kaiser to a fabled tyrant whose end can be won by steady saving. The Washington message urges every wage earner to invest a quarter daily—billions yearly—to fund guns and ships. A second Porto Rico training camp opens February 1 for 400 attendees.
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Nally
America
Kaiser Wilhelm
Washington
United States
Atlantic
Porto Rico
Enger Seeks Republican Nomination for Fourth District
Iowa Senator Lauritz M. Enger of Winneshiek county announces pursuit of the Republican nomination for Congress in Iowa's Fourth district. A long-time legislator and committee leader, Enger highlights his public health and constitutional experience, urging support from district Republicans. The article notes his Norwegian birth, varied career, and service in both the Iowa House and Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Enger
Winneshiek- Howard
Lauritz M. Enger
Christiania
Norway
America
Winneshiek County
John Breckenridge
Decorah Institute
Decorah
Debcorah Posten
House of Representatives
Laws
Enger
House Committee On Public Health
State Board of Health
Senate
Commerce and Trade
Public Utilities
Ways and Means
House
Appropriations
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The
A. K. Bailey & Son, Inc
EB. R. Acres
Ben Bear Block
M. J. Soukup
DRS
Stabo & Campbell
Physicians and Surgeons
Decorah State
Bank
C. Hoeg, M. BD
Citizens Savings Bank
D*s. Urban & Urban, Osteopathic Physicians
Bamy, M. D
Decorah Ave
Curtin’s
A. Woodward, M. D
F. Barthell
Attorney At Law and Justice of the Peace
National Bank
K. ¥. Curtina
W. M. Strand
Attorney At Law
E. P. Johnson Building
Lutheran Publishing House
Steamship Agency
Main Street
BEN Bear CO
Clothing Wholesale
Mott & Co
General Merchants
K. Haugen
General Merchant
Phoebe Lincoln
River St
J. C. Beard
Roscoe Gilmore Stott
People’s Home Journal
Brotherhood of Man
Texas
Philadelphia
Amsterdam
Red Cross
Roosevelt
Japan
Col. House
Wilson
Sam L. Rogers
Census Bureau
Germany
Jerusalem
West
Minneapolis
Duluth
Charles Edward Russell
John Spargo
Wood
Indiana
Cuba
National City Bank of New York
Claus H. Spreckels
Federal Sugar Refining Company
Food Administration
Mr. Hoover
Hoover
American Sugar Refining Company
Spreckels
United States Food Administration
W. 8. Allen
Secretary of State
Garfields
Chardon, Ohio
Republican
Will
Des Moines Dispatch
Sen. Enger
Winneshiek-Howard
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