Telephony Tax Report Totals and Local Mileage
County tax data shows Nordness lines at 131 miles and Standard at 114 miles. Total telephones and telegraphs tax amounts to 10133.37 dollars, regulated in Des Moines with 13 to 140 dollars per mile, listing assessed values across multiple townships and Decorah area corporations.
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Decorah
Des Moines
Fremont Township
Orleans Township
Lincoln Township
Sumner Township
Jackson Township
Burr Oak Township
Bluffton Township
Madison Township
Calmar Township
Washington Township
Hesper Township
Canoe Township
Decorah Township
Springfield Township
Frankville Township
Bloomfield Township
Decorah Corporation
Calmar Corporation
Ossian Corporation
Castalia Corporation
Ridgeway Corporation
Fort Atkinson Corporation
Jackson Junction Corporation
Spillville Corporation
Poince of CiMat Hauses
Swat the Fly Week Planned for State Schools
Ben C. Ilis deputy state food and dairy commissioner and the state superintendent of public instruction plan Swat the Fly Week during the first week of May. About 600000 school children will receive daily instruction on flies as disease carriers and eradication methods, using a bulletin issued by Ilis.
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Swat
Ben C. Ilis
State Food and Dairy Commissioner
Office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Illis
Horses Tango on New East Fifth Street Bridge
Report from East Fifth street at Hampton describes horses crossing the new cement bridge showing a tango like motion. Officials blame an electric current in the bridge floor or water carried by live wires for the animals unusual behavior.
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East Fifth Street
Hampton
Remarkable College Burns Mountainside Hopeful Forges Change
The Oneida Institute in Kentucky feeds and teaches about six hundred students at four dollars a month while lacking funds to pay professors who volunteer their services. President J. A. Burns, a Kentucky native, performs on the lyceum circuit to cover running costs. The college, chartered by fifteen men, has outgrown its space and fights feudism in the region as it aids mountaineers to meet modern civilization. The Decorah lyceum association has booked Burns for 1916-17.
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American
Oneida Institute
Cumberland Mountains
Kentucky
J. A. Burns
Lyceum
Burns of the Mountains
Decorah Lyceum Association
Mr. Burns
Rockford Deputy Killed in Home Arrest Incident
Frank Reams of Rockford shot and killed Deputy Sheriff Bowers and wounded Bowers mother who tried to intervene at the home while resisting arrest for an earlier wounding of Coroner Yenerich. Reams was disarmed at Charles City after meeting Yenerich in the street and firing twice. The coroner was grazed and not seriously injured.
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Frank Reams
Rockford
Bowers
Yenerich
Reams
Charles City
Venetian Coffee and the Rise of Espresso in Venice
In 1591 a Venetian doctor brought coffee from Egypt and taught locals to crush and brew it. The drink spread quickly, filling Venice with coffee houses where patrons settled yearly bills rather than paying per cup. A cup cost five soldi, about 24 cents.
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Egypt
Venice
Iowa's Best Butter Maker Crowned at Cedar Rapids
F D Warner of Northwood topped the Iowa Buttermakers convention scoring with 4 points to win the sweepstakes prize. Guy Thomas of Clear Lake took the Mortensen loving cup for best kept creamery and dairy grounds.
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F. D. Warner
Northwood
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Guy Thomas
Clear Lake
Mortensen
Basket Ball Contest at Postville
Postville hosts a tie breaking basketball event tomorrow and Saturday among Clayton county schools. Three teams compete with C C Williams refereeing and John Palas umpiring. Prof Hilliard timekeepers and Jas Howard scorer as Postville High offers a silver loving cup to the winner.
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Clayton County
Postville
C. C. Williams
John Palas
Prof. Hilliard
Jas
Howard
Iowa Bank Condition Shows Higher Deposits and Growth
The Iowa state department released figures for 849 savings banks and 22 trust companies as of Jan 31, showing deposits up 16.2 million since Nov 1, 1915 and 21.6 million since February last year. Overdrafts and gold coin declined while surplus rose. total deposits stood at 345.84 million with an 20 percent average reserve and seven more banks since Nov 1 1915. A Philadelphia case about a child with a ticking sound in the head is noted.
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State Department
Hamilton County Boards Purchases Gravel Elevating Machine
The Hamilton county board buys a 1150 dollar gasoline gravel elevating machine. Set over a prime gravel pit between Fairfield and Evans farms west of Hampton, it will start in spring with one man and team. Grading on the Hawkeye highway will begin, extending to the county line, then move to new gravel spots as supplies run out.
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Board of Supervisors
Hamilton County
Fairfield
Evans Farms
Hampton
Hawkeye Highway
Waterloo Declares Red Geranium City Status
Official move designates Waterloo as the Red Geranium city of the United States. Traffic posts will be topped with geranium pots, residents will display plants in porch boxes and hanging baskets, creating a vivid red and green cityscape.
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Waterloo
United States
An Ideal Spring Laxative Ad
A time tested remedy advertised by Dr. King's New Life Pills. The first dose moves sluggish bowels and cleanses the system of waste and impurities. Priced at 25 cents at the druggist. Ad.
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Dr. King
Ady
Fenian unrest and civic results from a fifty year old issue
Fifty years ago Fenianism surged in New York amid Ireland habeas corpus disputes. National currency issued stood at 258,432,790 dollars and the national debt minus cash was 2,711,850,000.22 dollars. Spillville opened a cattle market. local election totals included Mayor W F Coleman and Recorder E B Hutchinson with several trustees and officials listed. Lars Nelson was found crushed to death in Hesper township.
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New York
Ireland
Spillville
W. F. Coleman
E. B. Hutchinson
T. W. Burdick
Lars Nelson
Hesper
Costly Settlement After Gasoline Mix-up in Osage Case
Representatives of the Standard Oil Company went to Keister in Faribault County to settle with the surviving members of the Howe family after a fire killed Mr and Mrs Howe and left their six month old baby orphaned. Investigators found kerosene cans contained gasoline by mistake due to delivery error. The company paid over 10000 dollars held in trust for the Howe baby and another 10000 dollars to a brother who was burned while saving the Howes.
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Standard Oil Company
Keister
Faribault County
Osage
Harry Howe
Howe
Why Turkish Women Go Veiled
Essay argues veiling stems from ancient customs not religion. Historically Turkish men abducted women for wives causing conflict. To prevent further clashes the community adopted veiling and secluding women in harems once they reached adolescence.
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Tartary
Electric baggage trucks cut labor at rail hubs
Streams of perspiring workers once hauled baggage on hand trucks at stations. The electric baggage carrier replaces four times as much labor and halves the number of workers. A traffic report shows cost savings of 66 percent in baggage and freight handling.
Husband and Wife Spar Over Happiness in Domestic Quarrel
Mrs Neighbors asks if she and her husband live happily together while Mrs Enpeck replies she would like to see him try not to live happily with her.
Judge Hobson Opens Fayette Court For Short Session
Judge Hobson opened court in Fayette County Monday and presides daily the week. The jury was not recalled as the judge avoids a long case, with other matters to attend to. Court may resume criminal and other jury trials next week and stay for about two weeks.
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Fayette Co. Union
Hobson
Skin Grafting For State Center Man In Marshalltown Hospital
Twenty square inches of skin were grafted on the burned surface of Dick Biesnecker of State Center at a Marshalltown hospital. The burns occurred weeks earlier when a can of gasoline he held between his legs while thawing a pipe exploded. Two thirds of the grafted skin came from his thighs, the remaining third from his brother Conrad Biesnecker’s thigh.
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Dick” Biesnecker
State Center
Marshalltown
Biesnecker
Conrad Biesnecker
High Priced Holstein Bull Fetches 10000 at Sale
C 8 Marks received an export from Clinton New York a Holstein Friesian bull for which he paid the record price of 10000 at the registered Holstein sale of Francis M Jones. The next bid stood at 9500. The express alone was 01.
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Riceville Recorder
Express
Clinton
New York
Francis M. Jones
Early Snake Story From Lansing Mirror
Sam Bechtel killed a good sized reptile on the farm last week as it crawled over the snow seeking warmth. The creature did not survive the journey.
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Lansing
Sam Bechtel
Origin of Silk Industry Through Ages
Silk first produced in ancient China by Si Ling wife of Huan Ti around 2600 B C. Aristotle the Greek mentions silk. Europe began silk cultivation in A D 530 with eggs brought from India by monks.
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Si-Ling
Huan-Ti
China
Aristotle
Europe
India
Fire at New Hampton Opera House Suspected Arson
Fire at the old New Hampton opera house was started by an incendiary device. Firemen found three separate blazes at different points but extinguished them with little damage reported.
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New Hampton
Opera House
Changeable March Weather Brings Coughs and Colds
Changeable March weather causes coughs colds and grippe with no light cold. Foley's Honey and Tar is advertised as a safe reliable family medicine that heals inflamed air passages stops coughs and eases breathing from Engbert sons Pharmacy Ady.
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Foley's
Engbert Son
Ady
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Telephone and Telegraph
McGregor Times
MeGregor
Philadelphia
Republic
Hart Schaffaes
Hart Schaffner
Hart Schaffner & Marx
America
Ben Bear
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