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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1913
Page
1
Local newspaper page listing multiple businesses and professionals in Decorah Iowa. Entries include physicians lawyers insurers merchants and shops with offices and contact notes. Also mentions subscription rates and printing services.
A long, fragmented editorial mix discusses economics, politics, weather, and social norms. It lampoons tariff changes, praising Gettysburg remembrance, notes transport and health concerns, touts canned foods, and critiques enforcement and charity. It combines humor with political critique and public welfare themes.
The Dubuque Times Journal chronicles how tariff tinkering pits national policy against local interests. It cites Charles Miller of Waverly defending free sugar to protect beet sugar and Wilbur W Marsh of Waterloo resisting cream separators on the free list, highlighting self interest in Democratic circles and a possible Marsh senate bid.
Preparations are complete in the auditor of state's office to begin an immediate examination of county government as ordered by the last general assembly. Auditor John L. Bleakly announces examiners James Parker Des Moines C C Hunt Montezuma C C Colelo Carroll ESP Rehkopf Indianola J M Mathew Council Bluffs F G Luke Hampton James I Israel Keokuk C B L Ellis.
The Decorah City Hospital committee reports progress and urges remaining donors to subscribe. By July 14, total gifts reached 23870 with 1130 still needed to complete the campaign. Citizens and business people in Decorah and Winneshiek County are urged to submit payments to banks or committee members Ben Bear, Rev. Paul Koren, G. F. Baker, L. S. Dale.
Dr Clair Adams of Bement Illinois warned at Town State College Rural Life Conference that absentee landlordism drives social decay in rural communities. He portrayed a coming England style divide between landlords and peasants, urging long term leases, strong schools, and farmer involvement to keep land fertile and communities vibrant.
Washington July 11 The Senate may now proceed to tariff revision as President Wilson called. Chairman Simmons of the finance committee is authorized to report the Underwood Simmons bill after a party line committee vote. Free raw wool and sugar free after May 1, 1916 remain core elements with expanded free lists and reduced rates in metals wool and agriculture. Administrative features and income tax see sweeping changes while cattle and wheat enter the free list with a countervailing duty on wheat.
Henry Saberson estimates at least 50 of 1075 state organized banks in Iowa will qualify under the loan and trust company law. Banks have amended charters to act as guardians executors and trustees. Additional charter changes will require work in the secretary of state and banking department and will boost bank business in due time.
The state law requires land owners to destroy all listed noxious weeds on their property or adjacent highways between July 15 and August 15. If owners fail, township trustees will perform the work and assess the cost to them. Included species are quack grass Canada thistle cocklebur wild mustard dock buckthorn ribbed plantain wild parsnip horse nettle velvet weed buttonweed burdock shoofly wild carrot and Russian thistle.
Wisconsin is named the leading dairy state in the union in 1909 census figures, with New York slipping to second, Iowa holding third, Minnesota fourth, and Illinois dropping from fifth. The report notes 8,479 establishments surveyed, with corporate ownership and cooperative societies varying in share of establishments and product value.
United States revenue figures for the year ending June 30 1913 show a peak in consumption of liquor and tobacco. Whiskey and brandy totals reached 143 3 million gallons, beer 4 5 million barrels, cigars 7 707 million, cigarettes 14 012 million, tobacco in pipes 405.2 million pounds, chew and snuff at 33.2 million pounds, all rising sharply from 1912.
New York reports more than a billion eggs stored in public refrigerators across 45 systems. Storage totals reach 2,992,800 cases of thirty dozen each, down from 3,340,500 a year earlier. At 87.20 per case wholesale value is about 21.44 million dollars. Greater New York average weekly egg consumption is three million dozen.
Iowa’s auto mobile department begins indexing every machine in the state. Four persons will be kept employed as cards describe each machine and owner details, enabling faster registration next year. The London Daily Mirror debates whether women approach savagery more than men, with a doctor asserting savages and civilized women alike talk a lot about nothing and women lack logic. The piece notes the conflict over gender and money concerns of modern life.
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