Editorial Comment On Current Events in Winneshiek County
A collection of editorial snippets discusses primary ticket positions in Winneshiek county, national politics, Mexican border issues, and civic topics. It critiques party rules, reflects on suffrage, mediation, and Hearst and Bryan, and notes naval policy, aviation advances, and a government printing monopoly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judge Lee
Winneshiek County
Gov. Clarke
Cummins Mins
Connolly
Cost of Existence Fueled by Waste in Food Supply
H B Shepard of Warfield Pratt Howell urges Iowa officials to force production and distribution reforms. He warns vast food waste, calls for conserving vegetables and dairy, and links nourishment to crime and social stability. He advocates invitation of agricultural and educational leaders to discuss feeding people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Food and Dairy Commission
Department of Necessity
Towa
H. B. Shepard
Warfield- Pratt-Howell Company
Food and Dairy Department
Des Moines
Shepard
Commission
Mr. Shepard
State Agricultural Society
Washington
Supreme Court Reverses Judge in Ice Cream Case
The Supreme Court reverses District Judge McHenry of Polk County in the ice cream purity dispute. It upholds the state law defining ice cream quality and confirms the state’s power to designate standards. The court also sustains the soldiers preferred status and teachers minimum wage rulings in Ferber vs Duckworth and Scott vs Clark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
McHenry
Polk County District Court
Barney
Ferber
Duckworth
State House
Scott
Dragging Edict Drives State Road Law Enforcement
The highway commission announces a mandatory dragging provision requiring township road officers to levy at least one mill tax for dragging township roads and county supervisors to spend whatever is needed for dragging county roads. Officers are bonded and must enforce the law as the campaign begins nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Office
The
Highway Commission
Remembering ritual for flags on memorial day
The Cedar Rapids Republican notes memorial day etiquette for flag display from sunrise to noon at half mast and from noon to sundown at full mast. It emphasizes sorrow for the dead and celebration of the victory by those who died for the flag, urging no flag rising before sunrise or lowering after sundown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Jors
Cedar Rapids
No Democrats Available in Howard Township Primary Board
In Story County Howard township the precinct has over 400 voters at a loss how to fill a sufficiency of Democrats for the primary election board. RK P Sheffiet and W J Doolittle are the only Democrats present. two who voted here two years ago have since left. The board may appoint both, but whether both will serve remains uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New Jersey
National Exhibition Company
New York Company
Chicago Cubs
New York Giants
C. W. Murphy
Lyet
Howard Township
Howard
Story County
Doolittle
Vestments Hidden for Fourteen Years Found in Tower
Two silk vestments concealed behind a ceiling in the old Ida Grove Catholic church tower were found during wrecking. The building, sold to a Free Methodist church, later came under contractor John B. Kettermans, who plans to salvage two bun galows from the wrecked structure. The garments remain bright and undamaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Grove
Catholic Society
Free Methodist Church Organization
John 8. Ketterman
Condition of the U S Treasury May 11 balance
The May 11 opening balance shows net in the general fund at 876,457, M7. Receipts yesterday totaled 83,142,453 while payments reached 83,499,453. The year’s deficit stands at 897,380,113, versus last year’s surplus of 86,253,246 excluding Panama canal and public debt actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Treasury
General Fund
Professor Kennedy Resigns as Extension Chief
Prof Kennedy head of the state college agriculture extension resigns after turmoil. Management labels him a disturber while he criticizes leadership, creating a bad mess. The note adds medical statistic on appendicitis saying only thirty percent of operations are necessary with no rebate to the other fifty percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennedy
The
State College
Cummins Says Campaign Carried On by Friends to Finish
Des Moines May 9 1914 Senator Albert Cummins announces he will seek renomination but must skip most campaign work due to Senate duties. He urges Republicans to judge him by his record and rely on the rank and file, warning against corporate interests opposing his bid and pledging continued opposition to combinations he deems harmful to legitimate industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cummins
Mies Ginseses
Gen. Funston
State Department
A. B. Cummins
Des Moines
Washington
Comitee
Congress
United States Senate
Tam
Senate
United States
Iowa
Iova
Sam
Albert
Also Mentioned on This Page
Decorah
A. K. Bailey & Son, Inc
Winnebago Street
Nada
Mexico
J. 1 Daly
M. D
Larsen Clothing Star
Hoeg
Speeti
Citizens Saving Bank
M. D. Jewell
Rzcinski
Osteopathic Physicians
Decorah Ave
Curtin's Addition
A c. Woodward, M. D
Offce
F. Barthell
Attorney At Law and Justice of the Peace
National Bank
E W. Cutting
Bromley’s
West Water Street
Town
W. M. Strand
Attorney At Law
E P. Johnson Building
Tutheran Publishing House
Lutheran Publishing House
L M. Enger
Steamship Agency
Main Street
Standard
EN Bear
Mm" & Co
Water
Washington Sts
I. Haugen
General Merchant
Carpina
West
Frances A. K. Butler
Alton
Chris Moore
Carranza
Wm. Randolph Hearst
Huerta
Helen Taft
William Howard
Colorado
Rockefeller
Meredith
Nelson O'Shaughnessy
White House
Bill, Jones
Chicago
Wm. Jennings Bryan
U. S. Senate
Kenyon
Vera Cruz
Funston
Villa
Thomas A. Edison
Phonograph
James Keeley
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Record-Herald
Inter Ocean
Record
Herald
Intercean
Record-Herald
Tampico
Mr. Bryan
George C. T. Abbott
Cordoba
Dayton
Ohio
Typographical Union
Max Hayes
Government
Mr. Hayes
Mercantile Corporation
Wall Street
Uncle Sam
Post Office Department
J. C. Beard
Republican
State Highway Commission
U. S. Treasury
Prof. Kennedy
Denator Cummins
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