Local Advertising and Medical Listings in Decorah
Advertisement and notices from Decorah including subscription rates outside Winneshiek County and abroad, business card and local ad rates, and a long listing of physicians with office hours, locations, and phone numbers. Also mentions a ice cream factory, Lutheran Publishing House services, insurance, and clothing dry goods retailers with addresses in Decorah Iowa.
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Winneshiek County
Canada
Mexico
Sandard Telephone No
Editorial Review on War Times and Food Prices
A 1917 editorial collection discusses wartime leadership, food costs, and social policy. It critiques legislation, calls for farm labor, praises Hoover on food strategy, and urges Americans to curb waste, stressing collective effort in shortages and national duty.
New War Tax Bill Proposes Broad 1917 Revenue Plan
The bill aims to raise $1.8 billion next year by raising normal income taxes, erasing tariff free lists with a 10 percent duty, widening surcharges on large incomes, and adding taxes on life and fire insurance, utilities, transportation, and consumer goods. It shifts tax burden across individuals, corporations, inheritances, and imports, with passage expected soon after hostile debate in Congress.
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China
Germany
Shantung
Chin
Washington
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Controversy Over Conscription Law Bias Against Rural Areas
An analysis of the new conscription bill passed by Congress argues the draft system discriminates against agricultural towns. It contends states must meet quotas by population, harming rural counties like Winneshiek and cities with high farming populations while urban areas with manufacturing thresholds are less burdened. The author urges a fairer exemption-based approach.
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House
Senate
United States
Winneshiek
Decorah
Calmar
Ossian
New York
Chicago
Dakotas
Gain in Poultry Supply Report Shows Large Increases
The federal office of markets on May 10 reported a 200 percent rise in poultry held in storage on May 1 versus the same date last year, with storage turkeys up 746 percent. Frozen beef, lard, pork, salt pork, and lamb declines also noted, while cured meat up 25 percent. Alabama coal production peaked last year.
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Federal Office of Markets
Iowa Defense Commission Organized By Gov Harding
Des Moines May 11 The state defense commission appointed by Gov Harding organized at the governor's office. Lafay ette Young Sr editor of the Des Moines Capital chairs with Adjutant General Guy Logan as secretary. Members include W W Marsn Dubuque Col G W French Davenport Judge J G Kennedy Sioux City James M Pierce Des Moines J F Deems Burlington Paul Junkin Creston Judge Martin J Wade Iowa City Col W G Dows Cedar Rapids Charles Webster Waucoma FPA O Connor New Hampton F F Everset Council Bluffs C C Deering Des Moines F H Hammill Boone Col David Palmer Washington Fred Larrabee Fort Dodge John Norrell Jr Ottumwa James Doty Shenandoah.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Commission On State Defense
Harding
Lafayette Young, Sr
Guy Logan
Senator Young
General Logan
W. W. Marsn
Waterloo
John T. Adams
Dubuque
G. W. French
Davenport
J. G. Kennedy
Sioux City
James M. Pierce
J. F. Deems
Burlington
Paul Junkin
Creston
Martin J. Wade
Iowa City
W. G. Dows
Cedar Rapids
Charles Webster
Waucoma
Fpa. O'Connor
New Hampton
F. F. Everset
Council Bluffs
C. C. Deering
F. H. Hammill
Boone
Col
David Palmer
Washington
Fred Larrabee
Fort Dodge
John Norrel, Jr
Ottumwa
James
Doty
Shenandoah
Ruth Law to Fly at Winneshiek County Fair
Ruth Law, famed aviatrix and world long distance record holder, will perform aeroplane flights at the Decorah fair on August 16 and 17. She has returned from Europe and is now recruiting for the U S aerial corps, touring to secure enlistments while promoting fair week entertainment.
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Will
Decorah
Europe
U. S. Aerial Corps
Ruth Law
Winneshiek County Fair
Curtin
Miss Law
Blanche McKinney
Des Moines
Chicago
New York City
Winneshiek County
America
Iowa
Arrival of Consul Ravndal in Zurich and departing Americans
Washington dispatches dated May 15 report Consul General Ravndal arriving in Zurich to lead the first party of Americans leaving Turkey after diplomatic ties were broken. He notes the travelers were greeted courteously along the route. Locally, Mrs. Ravndal and family have lived in Decorah for two years. The item also notes 672 volcanoes exist with 270 described as active.
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Washington
Ravndal
Zurich
Turkey
Decorah
Harding vetoes non partisan judiciary act repeal
Governor Harding vetoed senate file sixteen which would repeal the non partisan judiciary act and restore the circle to the ballots. The veto leaves parties without authority to name candidates for the state supreme court and preserves the ballot without the circle. The action was announced to Secretary of State Allen.
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Des Moines
Towa
Harding
Senate
State Supreme Court
Allen
Death of State Treasurer W C Brown in Des Moines
W C Brown state treasurer died last Saturday morning at his home in the Maine apartments Des Moines and was buried Tuesday in Clarion. He had been in feeble health over two years. He worked Friday and went home about four o clock when a heart attack struck and proved fatal.
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W. C. Brown
Maine
Sixth Avenue
Des Moines
Clarion
Mr. Brown
Death of Ex Senator Foraker in Cincinnati
Joseph Hensin Foraker former United States senator from Ohio died at his Cincinnati home aged 70 after a lengthy illness. He had been in poor health since leaving the senate in 1900 and was bedridden for two weeks with his condition not critical until last night.
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Cincinnati
Joseph Hensin Foraker
United States
Ohio
Senator Foraker
Senate
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A. XK. Bailey & Son, Inc
West Water Street
E. R. Acres
Ben Bear Block
M. J. Soukup
Hexom
Citizens Bank
Stabo & Campbell
Physicians and Surgeons
Albert E. Conrad, M. D
Pangtion
Sieegnen
Areere
Deubney
G. & Daly, M.D
S. Larsen Clothing Store
Hoeg, M. D
M. D. Jewell
Therzcinski Bulene
Osteopathic Physicians
Ave
Scurtin
A. C., Woodward, M. D
Barthell
Law and Justice
West Se National
W. Currina
Water St Lown
Strand
Attorney At Law
E. P. Johnson Building
Ee Sugar Bowl Ice Cream Factory
Otto Dahlfelm
Phone 400
Lutheran Publishing House
Fair Inces
L. M. Enger
Steamshiney
Main Street
Wee Bixasare
Phone 104
Ben Bear
Mott & Co
General Merchants
Washington Sts
KK I. Haugen
General Merchant
West Water St
Reveille
Louis Oe
Ary Holt & Co
Col. Roosevelt
Cone
Woodrow Wilson
Hindenburg
City of
England
France
Tariff Commission
Wilson
Finance Committee
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Indiana Company
Standard Oil
Richard W. Austin
Tennessee
Negro Military School Commission
Austin
Russia
Nicholas
Czar
Paul the
Napoleon
Julius Caesar
Alexandria
St. Petersburg
Herbert C. Hoover
Relief Commission
Belgium
New Food Board
Phoebe Lingoln
River St
Alabama
Switzerland
Brown
Foraker
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