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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1917
Page
1
Classified items list subscriptions outside Winneshiek County at $2 a year, business cards, and legal ad rates. Doctors and professionals advertise office hours, phones, and rooms in Decorah, with multiple practitioners named alongside service notes and local business mentions.
Improvements in match manufacturing allow a single dipping machine to produce over six hundred thousand matches per hour with an air log turned into finished matches in under two hours ready for shipment.
In Des Moines the Iowa House failed to pass the Pitt Johnston mud roads bill with a 54 to 54 tie after extended debate over highway commissions and federal aid. Elwood Mackie opposed changes while others urged preserving the highway commission and state control. Adjournment came on a tied vote after hours of caucusing and floor speeches.
President Wilson orders an extra congressional session starting April 16 to authorize armament of American merchant ships and seek a $100,000,000 defense fund. The move follows renewed German U boat threats and signals potential war if armament prompts retaliation.
Des Moines reports the Klinker bill removes voter registration for towns under 6000 population, affecting over thirty Iowa towns listed by Representative Klinker. The law, signed by the governor, takes effect on publication and applies to spring elections. Towns named include Albia Algona Ames Atlantic Belle Plaine Carroll Chariton Cherokee Clarinda Decorah Estherville Grinnell Independence Iowa Falls Knoxville LeMars Maquoketa Marion Missouri Valley Mount Pleasant Newton Perry Red Oak Shenandoah Spencer Vinton Washington Waverly Webster City.
A Lebanon Times reflected on fire behavior contrasting a seven year old boy dropping a half-burned match to ignite multiple barns with a cautious adult needing many matches to start a fire in a drafty heater, pondering causes and safety.
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