Decorah Medical and Professional Office Directory
A local directory listing physicians surgeons osteopathic services and offices in Decorah. It notes office hours from 10 to 12 and 2 to 4, phone numbers 28-2 and 28-3, along with addresses and adjoining services including a bakery location and a steam baths facility. It also lists attorney offices over local shops, an insurance and steamship agency at 406 Main Street, Standard Phone 104, and a Dry Goods Trimmings shop at Water and Washington.
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K. Bailey & Som, Inc
Decorah
Iowa
West Water Street
Winneshiek County
Canada
Mexico
DRS
Osteopathic Physicians
Steamship Agency
Main Street
Standard
Editorial Call to Duty: Shoulder to Shoulder
A brief editorial urges unity and collective effort with marching orders to stay in step and fulfill duties before time passes. The piece emphasizes discipline, teamwork, and vigilance in facing current events.
Edt Bernard Murphy marks fifty years in Vinton printing
Bernard Murphy veteran editor of the Vinton Eagle celebrated his fiftieth anniversary in the printing business in Vinton on June 26. The piece lauds his esteem among citizens and craftspeople, and highlights wartime themes and Liberty Loan fundraising as context.
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Bernard Murphy
The
Vinton
Kahki Ranks and Rhetoric in Wartime Verse
A satirical anti Khaki poem echoes through lines about soldiers and civilians. It contrasts public scorn with wartime pride as soldiers march to drums and guns. The piece ends marking authorship by E J 8.
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Rudyard Kipling
Tommy
Kahki
Silent demonstrations show ways to raise food via film
Town State college engineers and agricultural extension teams produced a thousand feet of moving pictures to promote food production and thrift. The reels titled Soldiers of the Commissary Dry Your Food Supply and Summer Care of the Garden will be shown free to theatres across the state with more reels planned. Kansas Wisconsin Indiana have ordered copies and other states may follow.
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Town State College
Ames
Kansas
Wisconsin
Indiana
Record Breaking Imports Hit New Monthly High
A Washington dispatch reports May imports at 381 million dollars, the highest monthly total in U S history, with yearly imports totaling 2.6 billion. Free duty goods in May were 71 percent, and if May rates hold, yearly imports could reach 3.372 billion, near double the previous peak under a tariff. The American Economist questions postwar tariff needs. People should wake up to this issue.
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United States
Washington
New York Journal of Commerce
Wholesale booze confiscation nets millions in Iowa
State agents in Iowa report a major crackdown on liquor imports from wet states. About 7 million dollars of liquor were seized and destroyed, with actions led by W. G. Griffin in Albia. Fines and costs varied across Mason City, Northwood, St Ansgar, Charles City, and Des Moines as authorities, joined by local officers, halted illicit imports.
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Attorney General's Office
Havner
W. G. Griffin
Albia
Jefferson Highway
Mason City
Northwood
St. Ansgar
Charles City
Des Moines
County Attorneys Question Enforceability Of Blue Laws
At a Town convention in Council Bluffs county officials discussed the Sunday blue laws. Attendees including C N Houck and Attorney General Hayner debated enforcement, with many admitting the ancient statute would be nearly impossible to enforce and lacked public support.
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C. N. Houck
Council Bluffs
Hayner
Cigarette Tax Penalty Upheld by Iowa Court
Judge Charles A. Hutchinson in Des Moines district court upheld a 300 yearly penalty on cigarette dealers and property owners. The ruling affects over 382000 dollars in local property and allows liens on involved property. An appeal to the state supreme court is planned, with possible federal review if sustained. A related ruling allowed seizure of cigarettes in original packages from warehouses if owners planned nonoriginal packaging.
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Charles A. Hutchinson
Des Moines
State Supreme Court
Havner
Federal Supreme Court
Democratic Prosperity Debate Over War Profits
Treasury experts report forty four American industrial firms increased profits in 1916 versus 1914 by 501 006 151 dollars. The treasury secretary and the president claimed war business was a small share, while the charge of interrupted Democratic prosperity circulated in the 1916 campaign.
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Finance Committee
The
Senate
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
oute-Munese
Ind
National Tribune
Glory of Unmarried Men Forswearing Comfort in War
President Wilson singles out single men aged 18 to 40 as vital to wartime needs. He calls for 70,000 able bodied volunteers to reinforce the army, arguing bachelors can serve without burdening wives and children. The piece champions taking up arms for the flag and urges immediate enlistment.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Stars and Stripes
France
Tariff Commission under Fire from Democratic Press
The Democratic press condemns tariff discussion while the tariff commission proceeds. It questions whether a panel of low tariff advocates with little manufacturing experience can properly continue its work and argues business leaders should advocate tariff policy seen as a foundation of prosperity.
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Tarif Commission
Tarif
America
Wolfeboro
N. H H
Granite State News
Food and sanitary law prosecutions rise in Towa
Over the past year there were 108 prosecutions for food law violations and 100 for sanitary law violations in Towa. One merchant was fined for bad eggs. Two farmers faced charges for unsanitary cream separators and three more for unsanitary surroundings. Fruits imported valued at 27,081,300 dollars with bananas at 13,512,960 dollars. Lemons imported valued at 3,790,075 dollars and currants figs grapes olives and pineapples each exceeded one million dollars.
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Towa
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Tandard
Law
Ben Bear
Soukup
Optician
Corah
Chizens Bank
Aubert E, Conrad, M. D
J, Daly, M. D
S. Larsen Clothing Store
C. Hoeg, M. D
D. M. D. Jewell
Urban & Urban
Harriette B. Amy, M. D
Decorah Ave
Woodward
H. F. Barthell
Es W Justice Office
National
E. W. Cutting
Bromley
West Water Direst
Strand
BK. P. Johnson
Lutheran Publishing House
Orah
Lowa
Enger
Mott & Co
General Merchants
Washington Std
I. Haugen
West Water St
Phoebe Lincoln
River St
Sam
Bryan
Sally
Clinton Scollard
Congress
Russia
Jeanette Rankin
Japan
Germany
Chicago
England
Herbert ©. Hoover
Federal Food Conservator
Hoover
Norway
Spain
Annheuser Busch Co
St. Louis
Great Britain
John Hay
China
Hudson Maxim
United States Army
Navy
Capitol
Grand Army of the Republic
Frederick R. Wilson
Federal Farm Loan Bureau
Treasury Department
Italy
Paige
Jack Last
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