19 Jun 1913
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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1913
Page
1
An ad from The Decorah Republican in Decorah Iowa promotes General Merchants offering fine dress goods and trimmings with a full line of dry goods, stating locations at Corner Water and Washington Streets. It names K. I. Haugen.
A miscellany editorial comments on tariff debates and political figures, mixing satire with observations. It cites Wm Lorimer, Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington, and Johnson, notes senate tariff wrangles, and questions U S diplomacy on China and Mexico while urging action against lobbyists and urging reform in postal and tax policy.
A quotation attributed to Richard Watson Gilder emphasizes play as essential to human development. It argues that humanity must both work and play for physical, mental, and moral well being, warning that restricting or mis guiding play threatens childhood and the broader human condition.
Minnesota won a substantial victory in the U S Supreme Court’s Minnesota rate case. The court held Minneapolis & St. Louis rates confiscatory and unconstitutional while Northern Pacific and Great Northern rates were valid. The decision upholds state power to set passenger and freight rates within limits that avoid confiscation, shaping interstate commerce regulation and state commissions’ authority. The piece mentions related Missouri cases, valuation disputes, and implications for Iowa and New York rate regulation. It also notes the Panama Railroad being wired for electricity.
A Cedar Rapids Republican critique argues the tariff bill is flawed and poorly drafted by the Underwood committee. It contends the bill miscalculates revenues on cotton cloth and lacks scientific industry data, calling for expert investigations of wages and conditions worldwide to craft a true measure of economic differences.
The American Meat Packing Company operations in Argentina are not deemed a trust by the government. After consulting with leading Anglo Argentine beet firms, the agriculture minister said the current regime of liberty allows industrial development. If future facts show a detrimental combination, the state will act to prevent it.
The article cites statistics from Secretary of Commerce Redfield showing a drop in per capita coffee intake from over 11 pounds to 8.0 pounds between 1909 and 1912. It notes the average import price rose from 7.5 to 13.3 cents per pound during the period, reflecting reduced U S coffee drinking.
Washington dispatch reports at a White House reception honoring Laura Muller Brazil’s special ambassador champagne was served to guests for the first formal evening event since Wilson’s inauguration. Attendants drew champagne directly from the bottle in front of attendees.
Iowa Humane Society report shows 310 cases in May with 283 involving people and 107 related to animals. Eleven boys were apprehended for smoking, eleven babies placed in homes, eleven cases of wife desertion reported, and officers killed twenty three annuls.
Oil exists in great quantities in Sian but extraction uses crude methods. Wells are shallow, not over sixty feet, dug by hand. Oil is baled from the well bottom with bamboo dipper sticks and sold to nearby natives within calling distance of the wells.
The Iowa Department G A R elected Commander W Willette of Tama and other officers including D M Me Darraugh Des Moines as senior vice commander J D Rice Sioux City and Fred Harris Indianola as chaplain George A Newman Cedar Falls was re elected Adjutant General A new council of administration was chosen with members from Des Moines Glenwood Lenox Sioux City and Eddyville Burlington named as next meeting place Resolutions urged erecting a Pea Ridge battlefield monument supporting Gettysburg veterans travel and widows pensions and praising schoolhouse flag bills Mrs Cornelia Dodd Algona won treasurer post for the Women’s Relief Corps and Mrs Mary Tutt e Greenfield was elected junior commander.
Instructions issued to postmasters last week detail C. C. D. parcel post handling. Charges collected from addressees on and after July 1 if the amount does not exceed $100. A 10 cent fee in parcel post stamps, affixed by the sender, covers insurance against loss. Sender receives receipt. amount appears on a package tag. Addressee receipts on tap, serving as money order application. C. O. D. parcels may be mailed by rural carriers.
The article notes more than 140 000 Friends in American meetings and about 20 000 orthodox Quakers in England. In America orthodox Quakers total near 100 000, with three quarters west of the Alleghenies, while Philadelphia houses about 20 000 Hicksite Quakers in the east. It also mentions scattered orthodox meetings in Ireland and Canada and the Wilburites as a small American group.
Census figures show the center of grain production since 1850 near Burlington, Vermont, moving only slightly west in the last decade. The impact of upcoming government irrigation projects on the future location of the nation’s major grain fields remains to be seen.
A miner named Hubley died in a cave in a Manhattan California mine after two years of solitary work. The debris weighed about forty tons and revealed the ore body he had sought, described as among the richest in the district. An occupational census of Chicago notes burglars and pickpockets remain steady versus prior estimates.
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