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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1914
Page
5
The department of agriculture declares that the moon and planets have no significant effect on weather or planting. It explains that weather changes come from temperature differences and heat from the sun, not celestial bodies.
State officials decide ballots place the judicial ticket in the last column after party and independent sections. Some candidates prefer primacy for judicial spots, but law prioritizes party tickets. Six candidates for supreme judge and ninety for district judge. only one death changed the list since the primary.
The report cites Iowa with 217 044 farms of which 134 929 are owned or managed and 82 115 leased to tenants. It notes 62 percent owned and 38 percent tenant operated with 17 816 000 acres by owners and 11 675 000 by tenants. Land values are 1 267 91 000 for tenant farms and 1 987 588 000 for owner managed farms. It also contemplates asparagus and diet questions and ends with voting guidance for a U S senator.
The Des Moines Register & Leader argues Iowa should press ahead in a global economy and resist defeatist talk. Even amid war and hardship, the state can expect high prices for its goods and continued growth, urging public leaders to keep advancing plans for a stronger Iowa.
Examiners of the Interstate Commerce Commission near completion of a Rock Island Railroad audit and report. A forthcoming inquiry, expected to rival the New Haven case, was prompted by Representative Green’s push for investigation. The commission will open the Rock Island inquiry in Washington on October 10 with Former Governor Folk representing.
Dr. G. H. Sumner of the Iowa state board of health will convene a Des Moines meeting of regional health experts within a month to draft a sanitary code for midwest railroads. The code targets ventilating cars cleaning fumigation depots toilets and refuse disposal with railroad representatives to participate.
Stop suffering with asthma buy Dr Rudolph Schiffmanns Asthmador at Wanglers Drug Store Decorah or direct from the doctor. If the remedy fails to give instant relief within 15 minutes you get a full refund under a positive guarantee. This proof says relief is instant regardless of attack severity.
Prominent dealers announce bands on cigars will vanish as most bands are German made and wartime importation stops. Smokers lose cues to tell cigars apart, while Formosan tea quality improves for the season. Mant Anderson, Ossian rural mail carrier, escaped injury when his team and wagon fell from a bridge into a creek. horses injured but stamps and some catalogs were salvaged. Maurice Connolly attacks the pork barrel river and harbor bill, criticizing its passage after House approval.
A. A. Sawvell operates a winter wheat farm near Methregor with four consecutive years of winter wheat. Fourteen acres were seeded again this fall yielding 42 bushels per acre in 1911, 25 in 1912, 25.5 in 1913, and 30 this season at $1.05 per bushel, about $31.50 per acre.
Independence public schools install a complete printing plant in the high school department to offer industrial work for students interested in printing as a trade. The high school publication will be produced by students along with report cards enrollment blanks and other school forms.
The note states that prices in other years ranged from 80 to 85 cents. No further details or names are provided in the readable text.
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