01 Mar 1917
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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1917
Page
1
The Decorah Republican notes weekly publication from Decorah Iowa, with office hours and post office details. It lists subscription price and addresses in Decorah plus mentions eye care services and multiple doctors. The fragment includes names Albert E Conrad Hoeg Jewett and references to local businesses and a Citizens Bank building.
A long, satirical block of editorial notes and quips covers war talk, politics, taxation, tariffs, and social shifts. It mocks politicians, examines prices, immigration, and Prohibition, pleas for practical action, and notes figures like General Funston and Henry Taussig while surveying wartime economics and gender roles.
Des Moines 1917 report notes a ten day recess after a strenuous session. Debates over highway bills and primary election changes dominated. Senator Kimball's bill on state officer primaries passed the senate. Whitmore temperance measures and local authority on roads spurred clashes. mass attention remained on highway commission power and county versus state control. Debate over suffrage, butter pasteurization, and Third Regiment funding also featured, with adjournment anticipated after early April.
The House passed a Senate measure by 319 to 72 to bar liquor imports into states that ban manufacture or sale. Expected White House approval within a week would extend bone-dry territory across about a third of the continental U S. The vote cut across party lines and prompted loud demonstrations as Reed amendments and post office provisions shaped the bill.
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