30 Sep 1915
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Newspaper
Decorah Republican
Location
Decorah, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1915
Page
1
Directory style listing shows multiple local professionals in Decorah Iowa including doctors Daubney Woodward Daly Barthell Cutting and others with offices above bakeries and stores. Services cover women’s health osteopathy and general medicine along with ship agency dry goods and confectionery production. A sugar bowl ice cream factory Otto Dahlfelm operates with phone service.
A wide collection of editorial musings on WWI era politics, economy and society. Observations include sympathy’s power, ethics of leaders, war funding, tariffs, and public policy, with references to Wilson, Roosevelt, Krupps, and international affairs.
Prominent temperance leaders urge action in wet counties to test if the mulet law repeal took effect July 4 1915 or January 1 1916. Attorneys plan court injunctions to suspend enforcement pending a constitutional ruling, risking prolonged saloon operation in some counties.
Government data show exports for the year ending August 31, 1915 reached 3.035 billion dollars, surpassing 83 million in monthly value for the first time, while imports totaled 1.698 billion dollars, compared with 1.606 billion the prior year.
The Allison Henderson Memorial Association announced near complete purchase of six and a half acres of riverfront property in Dubuque for the memorial. Terms were agreed with owner Mr. McCarthy after years of consideration, with the choicest part of a sixteen acre tract secured. Silver first coined in Rome in 269 B C by Fabius Pictor.
Visitors learn the Cliff Dwellings like Cliff Palace Spruce Tree House and Balcony House were not mere houses but integrated towns. Each site housed multiple clans with distinct social systems, and room layouts reflect clan distribution and social organization within the ancient
State board of control fears unrest among inebriates seeking release under habeas corpus after the Lucile Addis v Applegate decision. Addis, committed for morphine habit in Mt. Pleasant, won release before W J Springer in 1912. Applegate appealed and the supreme court upheld the lower court. Justices Weaver Gaynor Evans Salinger in the majority. Chief Justice Deemer dissented with Preston. Ladd sided with the majority on part and with the dissent on another.
Germany pledges that American ships carrying conditional contraband will not be destroyed, except in extreme necessity under retaliation for British actions. The note accompanies proposals for a joint indemnity commission for the Frye case and Hague submission, signaling a conciliatory shift while reserving the right to destroy absolute contraband. Officials await the US response and arbitration verdict on treaty interpretation.
Prof HH Kildee of Long College advocates county dairy associations to organize grade and purebred stock sales. He notes buyers seek carload lots and local cooperation with the college dairy department could help sellers meet demand, improve disease-free Iowa cattle supply.
Henry Lefebvre and Son of Fairfax shipped twenty Belgian horses by express to the Panama exposition where they will display in October and contend for prizes. Lefebvre expects strong stock exhibits from Iowa to rival the world. A Swiss clock made entirely of straw and willow witches features straw chimes produced to ring without metal.
More than 200000 acres in the Federated Malay States are devoted to coconut growing, signaling a major expansion in the local cocoanut industry and agricultural development.
A gubernatorial proclamation calls for statewide fire safety focus citing 1914 fire data from the State Fire Marshal. It urges schools and public meetings to stress furnace inspection wiring checks flue roofs gasoline storage and general cleanup to reduce avoidable losses and conflagrations. Mayors are asked to launch cleanup and inspection drives.
The Iowa Supreme Court reversed a Carroll County District Court ruling in Sheldon Knowlton v Maple River school district. It held public schools may allow teacher garb reflecting charity, Bible readings, the Lord’s prayer, and classroom biblical imagery. The case involved using public funds and a Catholic school room. the injunction against funding was dissolved.
Guy O. Daggy won 83 742 damages in a district court suit against Ira and William Miller and Roy Wagner over the death of Mrs. Daggy near Ankeny in August 1919. He originally sought 15 000 after a buggy was struck by the Miller car and run over by Wagner.
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