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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15
Mason City Has $500, 900 Fire Loss.


Mason City, Iowa, Jan. 11.--An
entire business block with the excep-
ton of two buildings, in the heart
of the Mason City business district,
was destroyed by fire starting at l.
80 a. M, last Tuesday.
The loss will be 100000. half of
which is covered by insurance.
Half a dozen families, living in
buildings on the block, were driven
from their rooms in all stages of
night attire, to watch firemen in a
losing fight to save their effects. SO
far as has been discovered no one
was injured.
A list of the affected business hou-
SEES and the losses follows:
Sewers Hardware Co., $4,000.
Miller Grocery Co., $4,000.
Adams Express Co., $4,000.
Joseph Dry Goods Co., $4,000.
Mills Drug Co., $4,000.
Mission Billiard rooms, $4,000.
Lehman e Stock, harness, $4,000
Vance Music Co., $4,000.
l.. C. Smith Typewriter Co. $4,000,
Lombardo Fruit Co., $4,000.
Leisenberg Cigar Store. $4,000.
Western Union Tel. Co., $1,000
Globe-Gazette water wagon $1,000
Gale block, $4,000.
Standard building, $4,000.
Egloff building, $4,000.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15
Caught by Switch Engine.

Frank Hills was run over by a
switch engine Tuesday afternoon a
short time after three o'clock and
his body rolled under the engine un-
till nearly every bone was crushed
or broken. The body was removed
to the Henderson undertaking par
lors to be prepared for burial.
Just how the terrible accident oc-
Cured will probably never be known.
The unfortunate man was engaged
in sweeping the crossings and keep
ing the switch clear of the driving
snow, and it is probable that he did
not hear the approach of tie engine.
He was run down and rolled under
the engine until it was nece .sary
to remove some of the running gear
of the tank before the body could be
gotten out.-Oelwein Register.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15
GIBSON IN CHICAGO.
Former DEBORAH Dry Goods Ner-
chant Now Prominent on Lee
ture Platform.

Col Fremont S. Gibson of Charles
City secured front page position in
the Chicago Sunday Tribune follow
ing his appearance Saturday in Chi
cago before the Political Equality
league meeting in the Congress ho-
tel. Mr.. Gibson chose for his subject
THE Eternal Feminine" The Tri-
bune account follows:
Man the migrate, as a purveyoI
of truth and an en- laver of women,
was denounced by Fremont s. Glib
son of Charles City, yesterday, in an
address ON THE Eternal Feminine"
at the January meeting Of the Polit-
ical Equality league in the Congress
hotel.
Woman was given to man as his
ruler and protector. But by trading
on her mother love and by means of
the strength he obtained from her he
got the upper hand and has kept it
ever SINCE" he said. Man IS the
only animal in the universe that ever
turned on his mother and enslaved
her"
found out what a failure he was
making of running the universe, he
maliciously misinterpreted history
and laid the blame on woman his vic
tim.
st. Paul, | am sure, was a bache-
Tor. His ideas on the proper place
for women could not have come from
a married man.
Adam was the typical man of the
ages-a sore disappointment to his
wife as soon as the novelty wore off. Z"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15
Generous Requests to Catholics.

BY the will of Mrs. Rose O'Toole,
who passed away few weeks ago,
it is disclosed that she has bequeath-
ed the sum Of $4,000 toward the
erection of the new Catholic church
in Waukon and also $4,000 for the
care and improvement of Mount Oh
wet cemetery in which repose the re-
mains of herself and her parents and
brothers and. sisters. The sum OF
$500 is set aside for masses for her
self and kinfolks. In addition to
the above requests she has also will
ed $1,000 to the Catholic church at
Postville and $500 to the new Ly-
curgus church. The balance of her
estate of about $4,000 is bequeath-
ed to her six nephews and nieces,
members of the Clarity family. ID.
j. Murphy was named as executor in
her will.-Waukon Democrat.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15

when he will receive and examine
patients.
The Associated Doctors are the
specialists whose many wonderful
cures have caused comment by the
press, pulpit and public, not only in
Iowa, but all over the country. These
specialists have founded new school
of medicine which embraces all the
good points of all the old schools
and leaves out the bad. They use all
opathic drugs when they are needed,
they use homeopathic drugs where
they are needed, and in some cases
the use combination of Electric
treatments with Homeopathic or All
opathic drugs in the same case. The
Associated Doctors have united the
various schools and ''isms" of medi-
cine to form perfect system of cur
ing disease.
The object of the Associated Doc
tors in visiting this community is to
secure a few cases, but they want
these cases to be only the most diff
cult ones. They know that If they
cure few of the worst cases here,
that others will hear of it and go
TO one of their institutes for treat
ment. A cured patient is their best
advertisement.
While the doctor is at the Winnie
shiek hotel for this one day visit on
January 20, he will examine all cases
free of charge but will accept only
durable cases for treatment, as it
would not be good advertisement
TO treat any case unless they were
sure OF cure. To the cases selected
for treatment a special reduced price
will be made.
The diseases treated by the Asso-
ciated Doctors are diseases of the
nerves, blood, skin, heart, stomach,
kidneys and liver, including rheuma-
tism, paralysis, neuralgia, loss of
nerve force, goitre. constipation, ca
tarrh, epilepsy, scrofula and diseas-
and all diseases of the eye, ear nose
and throat.
The daily papers throughout the
country are continually publishing
reports of the wonderful cures made
by the Associated Doctors.
While the Associated Doctors will
not accept any incurable cases for
treatment, no one should give UP
hope simply because other doctors
have failed to help them. 1t must be
/ remembered that this new system OF
medicine has quickly cured many
cases which could not even be helped
| by other doctors or medicines.
The Associated Doctors treatment
is all home treatment so that fire.
quent visits to the office are not nee
essary. This treatment may be used
in any home, anywhere, without nee
essary inconvenience, publicity or
annoyance and without OBTAINING the
patient from his or her usual occu.
| patton.
This wonderful new system OF
treatment is what these noted doc
tors are bringing to DEBORAH. He will
be here on Wednesday, January 20
Their laboratories, Century Build.
! ing, Minneapolis, Mimi
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15
Let Iowa City Hotel Contract.

Iowa City, Iowa, Jan. 13.-The
contract for Iowa City's new fire.
proof hotel has been let to H. l.. Ste
vens & Co. of Chicago, for 100000,
exclusive of furnishings, which will
bring the cost up to $125,000. The
height is to be either five or six
stories, but the foundations will be
built to support an eight story build
ing. The company has also taken a
80 year lease on an adjoining prop
erty, to be secure in it's rights if it
desires expansion in the future. The
building will be of steel construction
with red brick exterior, completely
fire-proof. The contract calls for
completion October l of this year.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15
Miss Preus to Spring Grove.

Word has been received from Miss
Henrietta Preus of DEBORAH, Iowa,
that she will arrive in Spring Grove
in the course of a week or two to
locate as a music teacher.
Miss Preus will try to organize a
class in vocal music and will also
accept scholars in piano.
Miss Preus is a daughter of Prof.
c.. X. Preus of Luther College; has
a beautiful voice and is charming
young lady. She will be an acquisi-
ton to Spring Grove.-Spring Grove
Herald.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15
Victims of Land Swindler.

Fort Dodge, Jan. 13.-Thirty Fort
Dodge laboring men are back of an
investigation by the authorities OF
an alleged land swindle. The men
have invested $500 in sums from
$40 to SIS each. When a man who
made payment by mail to Des
Moines had letter returned un-
claimed the investors became suspic-
ious. 1t is thought the land swind-
lers leased government land south of
Des Moines and then pretended to
sell it. They took investors to Des
Moines and showed them land.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15

tor 70 said plat schedule and re-
port, or TO the tax proposed to be as
sessed thereby, shall file with the
undersigned city clerk, his or their
objections in writing at or before the
said meeting, held in the City Coun-
ell chamber of the City of DEBORAH,
Iowa, on the 9th day of January,
1913, commencing at 1880 O'Clock,
p. m. OF said day. and after the time
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15
Has Heavy POrker.

Mason City Iowa, Jan. Ill. r.
Robinson, who resides near Bowling
Green, Mo-, has claimed for some
time that he was the owner of hog
that weighed LOO pounds. While
this is some hog Farmer ii. A. Nc
Caffree, whosresides in Bremen conn
ty, has one that goes the Robinson
hog forty pounds better. The lat
ter weighs LAO pounds and he is
young and still growing.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15
New Hardware Firm at Calmar.

VIM. Eroghammer, H. T. Klisart's
timer, and Ole Hauge, the Silver
Spring Creamery Co. buttermaker,
have purchased the Becker e Koch
hardware stock at Calmar, and will
take possession March 1st.
Becker a. Koch's plumbing and
steam fitting business has grown to
such proportions that it became nee
essary for them to devote their en-
tire time to this business, hence the
sale of their hardware stock.-Os-
sian Bee
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15
FALL FROM WAGON FATAL.
Horace Sturtz Dies of Internal Iniur-
les i'm Boone Hospital.

Boone, Iowa, Jan. 11.-Horace
Sturtz died last night in the Eleanor
Moore hospital following injuries re-
Ceived New Years day at his coun-
try home north of this city, where
the front wheels of farm wagon
caught in a rut, he was thrown out,
falling between the horses. The front
wheels passed over his body, but he
got cut of the way of the back
wheels. He was able to drive the
team home.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15
Meat by Parcels Post.

Mason City, Iowa, Jan. BE. r
White is going to start the delivery
of meat by parcels post, furnishing
all who live within the home zone
with the meat they want. He re-
ceives orders by telephone from the
country in time in the morning to
do the meat up and deliver TO the
postoffice. 1t has worked like a
charm so far
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15

ments. That said plat schedule and
report are now on file in my Office in
said city for the inspection OF any
person or company interested there
In or the tax 10 be assessed for such
Improvement which plat schedule
and report will be open for inspec-
ton until meeting of said City
Council of said city, to be held as
hereafter stated, and that any objec-
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15
Shot Through Head.

Independence, Iowa., Jan. lie,
Verne Thorne, aged 13 years, son OF
J. A. Thorne, of Quasqueton, Iowa
accidentally shot himself with a %
calibre revolver at his home on last
evening. The bullet passed through
the boys head and he died instantly
The accident occurred while he was
standing at the bottom of the stairs
and his dead body fell to the bot
tom.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15
SCHEDULE OF TAX LEVY FOR CEMENT

And as far as practicable,
the name of each owner of said
lots or parts of lots, or parcels of
land, and the total amount to be as
sessed upon such lots, or parts of
lots. or parcels of land, which Is in
tended shall be levied and collected
as a special tax upon said lot, or
parts OF lots, and parcels of land
fronting and abutting said improve
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15

Notice of Special Assessment.
Notice of Levy of Sidewalk Tax
'ublic notice Is hereby given that
he following designated permanent
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15

If it were not whole lot easier to
tell than to do there would be a great
many more successful folks or else
the world would be much silenter
place.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15
w. NJ. LEE, Engineer.

of filing objections has expired. the
Directing parti3s may appear and
have a hearing upon the objections
and the City Council will, at such
meeting, hear and decide upon all
objections, so filed, if any, and there
after levy the special tax for such
improvement
f. NJ. HUGHES,
City Clerk.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15
Annual Report.

Annual report Of the Winneshiek
County Farmers Mutual Fire and
Lighting Insurance Association for
the year ending December 81, 1912.
Amount of Insurance in force jan
uary LIST, 1912 ..S3,729, $3.50
Amount of Insurance written dur
ing the year ..... 49S,962. 90
Amount of Insurance cancelled
during the year. -. 156,SS6. 90
Amount of Insurance increase
during the year J.. 2,076.00
Amount of Insurance in force jan
uary 1st, 1913 -. 4,071, 1922. 90
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Receipts from assessments, 1912,
.. 80. 1913 1886. As
Receipts from percentage on poll
cies ...... -. 414.99
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15

cement sidewalks have been ordered
constructed by the City Council of
the City of DEBORAH, Iowa, and said
improvements having been fully
made and completed, as ordered; that
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15
A Sick Man

- . "
writes me: Il
was greatly in
terested in your
article describ-
ing the Kauff-
man ca s e OF
serious disease
of the kidneys.
The description
of his case ex-
actly outlines
ny condition. /
am sure If Pc
runa cured him
40 Won saw III
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15

Total Receipts for the year 1917
.. .... IS 11,371.47
EASEMENTS
Indebtedness jan
uary 1st, 1912. Sc, 213.S9
Losses for the
year $50. :. 5,O66.S2
Secretary's sup
plies, postage,
and printing. 273.25
Treasurer's per ct.
cent on assess
ment 49,. -. 74.94
Printing and sup
plies -. -. $3.50
Total disburse-
ments .S11, 6SS.40
Indebtedness on borrowed money
-. -. -. ...$ 1868
q N
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15

against each of the lots, parts of
lots or parcels of land described as
follows, to-wit:
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15

the city engineer has prepared and
presented to the City Council cor
rect plat, schedule and report, show
ing the total cost of said improve
ment and the amount assessed
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-01-15

Total -. IS 11,6SS.40
e. w. GOODYCOONTZ, sec'y.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-10-24
Curiosity of an Empress.

Nine. de -LindencrOne in
her "reminiscences, I'm the Courts of
Memory" relates an amusing expert
ence which took place at one Of her
visits to the court of Napoleon III.
Her hair was so abundant and so
curly that no one would believe her
coiffure was natural. The Empress
Eugene asked: Where can one buy
such lovely curls as you have? Are
they real or false? You won't mind
telling me. Some people have made
bets about it. How can we know IN
less you tell us?" The American Wis
itOr replied: MY hair is all my own,
your majesty, and. if you wish to make
sure. ! am perfectly willing that you
should see for yourself" And. RE
moving my helmet" says Nine. Lin
dencrone. 81 took out the comb and let
my hair down. Every one crowded
around me and felt and pulled my hair
about until | had to beg for mercy.
The emperor. looking on, cried out.
Bravo, madame" and. gathering some
flowers on the table. handed them to
me. saying: Your success hangs by a
hair. does it nOt?'
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-10-24
Feeble Minded Children.

Economic incompetence often goes
by the name Of laziness, thriftlessness.
shiftlessness. In every village we find
some Of this worthless Sort and they
usually get scant sympathy and still
scantier Interpretation. Be careful OF
your own diagnosis of these cases.
reader. or you may make the mistake
Of the ignorant parent who actually
beats a feeble minded child, thinking
the child will not obey, when, as pure
matter Of fact, the child cannot obey.
There may be kind of laziness which
will respond to moral suasion. but
there is another important kind which
is due to incurable deficiency Of will.
Feeble mindedness is blight which
not only affects the intellect, but may
also weaken the instincts which are at
the basis. alike, Of play, work and
thrift-American Magazine.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-10-24
NOTHING to Be Said.

Prospective tenant talking with the
janitor standing on the steps of fat
house on cross street near an ave-
nue. on which there is trolley line.
Prospective Tenant-Can you hear
the cars plainly here?
.Tanitor-Oh. my, no; you can't hear
the cars here at
But at this moment there came rum
bling. grinding down the avenue st
forty miles an hour big trolley car
that passed this street with roar that
would have made double jointed
earthquake falling down a steep and
rocky mountain canyon sound like
somebody in the distance playing a
piccOlO.
The prospective tenant looked at the
janitor for just one moment, sadly and
reproachfully, and then she turned and
went away.
And the janitor? Well, the janitor
Just let her go without another word
for he realized that this was case III
which there was nothing further to
Isay.-New York Sun.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-10-24

An enterprising exchange has col
lected the following oddities in print:
A butchers sign reads as follows,
John Jacobs kills pigs like his fa-
ther"
A tailor had bill in his window to
the following effect, "Wanted-Sever-
al thin coat Makers This is fine
chance for spare tailors
One advertisement was headed, 1.-TWO
sisters want washing" So do q good
many brothers. Another advertise
ment was. "Wanted-A boy to sand
paper"
The following extract from a medical
advertisement is perhaps correct. Con
sumptives, cough while you can. for
after you have taken one bottle of my
mixture you can't.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-10-24
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HOW TO CARE FOR HEALTH IN SCHOOLS.
Ventilation of most school houses is
VIGOROUSLY bad. To meet this, school
boards have frequently installed costly
systems of mechanical ventilation. I'm
fortunately, these systems have seldom
accomplished what was hoped for. In
deed, they often make conditions worse
because the janitor and teachers have
a machine substituted for brains. A
recent study by yentilating engineers
has shown that quite as good or bad
results can be obtained by one system
as another. Nearly all schools are too
warm. Every teacher should be re-
CURED to keep the air in her schoolroom
both fresh and COOL So-called auto
matte ventilating and heating systems
are not automatic. They need to be
carefully supervised. Observations
should be made primarily, however, in
the schoolrooms and not in the base
ment.
Many half-blind child has been
judged to be stupid because he fails to
see what others see. The child with
defective hearing may be considered
dull because he doesn't readily grasp
what the teacher or others say to him.
Obstruction in the nasal tract actually
makes the child mentally backward. A
physician recently said that it was not
until his eyesight was corrected by
glasses when he was young man that
he realized how much normal people
were able to see.
Spargo relates an incident of child
who was a vicious child because she
felt that she was being nagged by the
teacher and ridiculed by the children
for her answers. She was absolutely
certain that her answers were correct.
Finally she was expelled from school
as an incorrigible child. Spargo studied
her case thoroughly. The child's earn
est and confident misleading of figures
on blackboard led to her being sent
to an oculist. Eyeglasses corrected her
vision, and she became more than an
ordinarily intelligent and lovable child.
This instance is being repeated in part,
at least, in every school district
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-10-24
Profanity Once indispensable.

Swearing was at one time regarded
as an indispensable accomplishment,
Evelyn Ashley once told Sir Algernon
West that on his father becoming Lord
Shaftesbury. Lady Caroline Neeld. his
sister. said to him in all seriousness:
Now that you have come into the
title, you must learn to swear. Your
father always did and gained great re-
spect by il in the county, :"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-10-24
"on Timev In Farm Work.

A good engineer brings his train into
the station on time. 1t is the sign of a
good farmer if he rounds up the days
work before dark. 1t is just as much
to his credit if he does that, too, as if
he were doing his work at the throttle
of an engine. Farm and Fireside.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-10-24
They All Demand 1t.
Edgerton, Like Every City and Town
in the Union, Receives 1t.


in the Union, Receives 1t.
People with kidney ills want to be
cured. When one suffers the tortures
of an aching back, relief is eagerly
sought for. There are many remedies
today that relieve, but do not cure
Doan's Kidney Pills have brought last
ing results to thousands. Here is Ed
gerton evidence of their merit.
. j. M. Ogden, e. Fulton ST., Edgerton,
Wis, says-"For more than a year | was
annoyed by pains in the small OF my
back. The attacks came on suddenly,
lasting for several hours and then disap-
pearing only to return again in few
weeks. [ sometimes had headaches and
the kidney secretions were unnatural.
The use of few boxes of Doan's Kid
ney Pills procured at Atwell's Drug
Store, drove every symptom of kidney
complaint from my system and ] am
now enjoying much better health. !"
1T gives me great pleasure to
again endorse Doan 'sKidney Pills, for
they effected a permanent cure in my
case. You are welcome to continue the
publication OF my statement for the
benefit of other kidney sufferers.
For sale by all dealers. Price so cts.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York,
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the ame-Doan' s. and
take no other.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-10-24
Seeking a Husband in 1775.

having in his disposal at present a
young lady of good family, with for
tune of 100000, on her marriage with
his appreciation would be very happy
to treat with man of fashion and
family, who may think it worth his
while to give the advertiser gratu-
ity of $4,000 on the day Of the mar
riage.-From the London Post OF jan
uary Fl, 1775.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-10-24
A Gentle and Effective Laxative

A mild, gentle and effective laxative
is what people demand when suffering
from constipation. Thousands swear
by DR.. Kings New Life Pills. Hugh
Tallman of San Antonio, Texas, writes:
'They are, beyond question, the best
pills my wife and haye ever TAKEN
They never cause pain. Price 25c at
druggists or by mail. H. E. Bucklen &
Co., Philadelphia or st. Louis.