Decorah business directory and services page
Local Decorah advertisement page lists physicians, lawyers, undertakers, jewelers, hardware and clothing stores. It advertises office hours, addresses in Decorah Iowa, and services from Urban & Urban osteopathic doctors to Luther publishing house printing and tornado insurance. Subscriptions and advertising rates are noted for The Decorah Republican.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. P. Johnson
Urban & Urban, Osteopathic Physicians
Decorah Bakery
Wie
S & Ness
Editorial Verse on Current Events and Policy
A reflective column critiques public life and policy, linking political temper, taxes, tariffs, and reform to social behavior. It mixes opinion on Taft, Wilson, civil service, Panama Exposition debates, and moralistic notes on divorce, manners, and progress.
Iowa Health Campaign Aims Statewide Public Education
Dr M N Voldeng of Cherokee state hospital chairs the Iowa State Medical Association public health committee which plans a statewide educational drive to map health conditions and raise public awareness. The panel, joined by Dr Lenna Means Henry Albert Dr Paul Gardner and Dr Jeanette Throckmorton, will use county societies and AMA speakers to address fly and mosquito control normal baby tuberculosis and public school health while soliciting cooperation from county medical associations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State Meddical Association
M. N. Voldeng
Cherokee State Hospital
Des Moines
State Board of Control Office
Dr. Voldeng
American Medical Association
Voldeng
Lenna Means
Henry Albert
Iowa City
Paul Gardner
Hampton
Jeanette Throck“morton
Chariton
Story
Polk
Means
Isaacs Pardon Request Heard by President Wilson
Senators Kenyon Cummins Representatives Haugen Woods Pepper and Rev Dr Sanford of Waterloo joined Charles Isaacs of Forest City in a pardon plea to President Wilson. Isaacs attended the White House but did not meet the president. Kenyon acted as spokesman and pressed the case. Wilson took the matter under advisement for full consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenyon
Cummins
Haugen
Woods and Pepper
Sanford
Waterloo
Wilson
Charles Isaacs
Forest City
Isaacs
White House
Death of Mayor Gaynor and Alaska fisheries successes
The New York mayor died at 1 o clock on a Baltic steamer while en route at mid ocean. His secretary was informed via wireless and his son Rufus W. Gaynor conveyed the news. Acting mayor Adolph L. Kline is Brooklyn resident and Republican. Alaska fisheries thrived with an unprecedented salmon run, traps at Kenai clogged, over a million fish cannot be handled, signaling profits from Alaska purchase and resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaynor
New York
Robert Adamson
Rufus W. Gaynor
Adolph L. Kline
Brooklyn
Wm. H. Seward
Russia
Alaska
Seward
Sayre
Kenai
State School Funds Amounted to 108 141 46 This Month
State Auditor John L Bleakly reported an 108 141 46 increase in the permanent school fund interest for the month. The total fund loaned to support schools stands at 4 803 195 89 with disbursements to counties twice yearly. Payoffed by transfers between the school and general funds, Polk county receives the largest interest share, while several counties lack any balance. A September transfer was cashed at a bank and misrouted to the state treasury exposing lax handling across counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Bleakly
Winnebago
Wayne County
Sioux
Lyon
Plymouth
Kossuth
Decatur
Government to distribute crop news by telegraph
Washington launches a telegraph based crop bulletin service to deliver state by state conditions in near real time. Dr George M Chappel of Des Moines weather bureau directs the Iowa rollout with six large states tested including Illinois Missouri Minnesota Kansas and Texas. The system speeds up reporting from seven to ten days to twelve to eighteen hours and mails to all newspapers including small weeklies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Washington
George M. Chappel
Des Moines Weather Bureau
Town
Ilinois
Missouri
Minnesota
Kansas
Texas
Weather Bureau
Bureau of Statistics
Chappel
Must Enter Capitol Millage Tax Details
State auditor to county auditors instructs reading the millage levy for the 2 million addition to the capitol grounds. Judge Hunter's injunction affects only one county. attorney general appeals. Remaining ninety eight counties proceed with the levy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunter
Fire Prevention Day Proclaimed by Governor Clarke
Governor Clarke issues proclamation designating a day in October for fire prevention. He cites past fire losses and urges public attention and action to prevent fires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarke
Township Assessors Vote to Tighten Property Tax Rules
The executive council will issue instructions to township assessors stressing three legal requirements: taxpayers must fill assessment rolls and take an oath, merchants must provide invoices, and small homeowners must not be discriminated against. Secretary W. H. Allen says the goal is to equalize assessments and enforce debtor information and sworn property reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Executive Council
W. 8. Allen
Allen
Fire Prevention Inspection Aims to Cut Losses in Decorah
State Fire Prevention Association plans a Sept 23 1913 inspection of Decorah fire hazards to cut fires and insurance costs. The effort seeks to protect lives and property, conserve national resources, and reduce fire waste through civic cooperation and a public meeting in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State
Decorah
Justice Hasbrouck Rules on Sulzer Impeachment and Pardons
Justice Hasbrouck of the New York Supreme Court ruled that Governor Sulzer was regularly impeached and, while awaiting trial, barred from exercising executive powers including the pardon. He also held Joseph G. Robin’s pardon invalid, quashed the habeas corpus writ, and remanded Robin to prison on Blackwell’s Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Hasbrook
Supreme Court of New York
Sulzer
Hasbrouck
Robin
Blackwell's Island
Purity Day Observance Urges Reflect on National Conditions
A proclamation designates November fifteenth as Purity Sunday. It urges citizens to dedicate the day to thoughtful discussion of national conditions and ways to address them, aiming for cleaner, stronger manhood and womanhood and a higher citizenship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarke
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Iowa
K. Bailey & Sow, Inc
Winnebago Street
Nada
Mexico
Winneshiek County
Strand
East Water Street
Deng Nows
Jewel. & Jewell
Von
Inski Building
Faapeerre
B. Amy
Curtin
A. Woodward
M. D
Ome
Barthell
Attorney At Law and Justice of the Peace
Dice
Bromley’s
Farm ‘Aoriginet
Honey Is
Lutheran Publishing House
Steamach Agency
Main Street
Standard Ship Oas
BEN Bear
Ing
Wot & Co
General Merchants
Washington Sts
Ake
General Merchant
West Water St
Telephone Exchange
Castalla
A. K. Bailey & Son
Tammany
Satan
Taft
American Bar Association
Thaw
Canada
Burleson
Philadelphia
Standard Oil Company
Florida
Huerta
Mr. Huerta
Kansas ‘City
Booker T. Washington
National Negro Business Men’s League
M. Brandt
Copenhagen
Clement Lucas
Forbes Winslow
Hoeger
The
Democrat
Waverly
Grossman
the Phoenix
Bremer County
Wm. Weiditsechka
John Mooney
Connolly
Bremer
France
Senate
Ramsdell
Thornton
Louisiana
la Follette
Wisconsin
Poindexter
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Ninevah
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London
Paris
Maine
James G. Blaine
Bryan
Champ Clark
Germany
Great Britain
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Pacific
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Lord Haldane
Court of
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America
British Empire
Haldane
Bright and Cobden
Inllinois
Towa
Ames
Civil Service
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City
Vera Cruz
Lind
Senor Gamboa
Morgan Syndicate
Bacon
Foreign Relations Committee
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Chas. Trzcinshi
National Bank
Opnico
Mayor Gaynor
Capitol
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