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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1911
Page
5
The Nebraska delegation is expected to vote for the wool bill as caucus dictates, with insurgents uniting for the first time this session. Norris and possibly Sloan may back the bill, while Kinkaid awaits more input from his district before deciding.
The Nebraska Press Association held its thirty ninth annual meeting in Omaha June 6 7 with editors and wives welcomed by city officials. New officers were elected led by John M Tanner South Omaha as president and H Taylor Central City as vice president C C Johns Grand Island as secretary treasurer and Miss Hanice Haskins Stella as correspond ing secretary. The gathering featured speeches on advertising state progress and a proposed bureau of publicity. Officers were urged to boost Nebraska journalism and a plan for a two tier membership and a permanent secretary was provisionally adopted.
The new act enacted in the last session of the Washington legislature imposes penalties on violations, extending protections to thousands of working women statewide. The law sets fines of up to ten dollars per violation and aims to enforce labor standards for women and girls.
Washington reporters note Representative Victor Murdoch of Kansas attacked the democratic wool tariff bill in the House. He challenged the 40 percent duty on worsted clothes and argued the measure mainly protects the so called worsted trust and war ration controls.
A fragmented note describes a proposed popular election system for U.S. senators, to replace indirect state methods, with emphasis on federal supervision. The text records a close vote tally described as 44 to, indicating a near-even division among supporters and opponents.
A local statement from Lynch asserts priests can provide care for the sick, while addressing concerns about church involvement and community duties.
A New York Times account describes Mr. Jones dropping fifty cents to a poorly dressed woman at a subway turnstile and returning it after she asserted the money was hers. The scene ends with the woman chasing another man aboard a train.
A list of states including Connecticut and New York seeks stricter publicity laws for living tuberculosis cases. The article notes legislatures in several states have or are adopting requirements to register and report infectious tuberculosis to health authorities.
A narrator notes the family dog senses an upcoming conflict as he slightly noses the door, implying the dog’s sensitive nose foreshadows trouble. The exchange uses playful wordplay on prescience and the dog as a storm center of the scene.
Crude wedding reception remark spread as guests mock the couple with snide jibes. Tension rises as friends refuse congratulations and the bridegroom endures chilly responses from attendees.
A Rome Minnesota matron writes that coffee has disagreed with her of late years and that the lightest punishment being to endure it, reflecting personal health notes in a local column.
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