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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1906
Page
2
The piece discusses the harms of publishing private letters and misusing confidential information. It argues letters should stay confidential unless the author permits publication and condemns posthumous disclosures.
Article outlines a proposed scheme in England and New York for a central power plant to transmit music through telephone lines to subscribers. A bank of alternators would generate notes matched to piano strings, sounding at the listener’s end via megaphone-like receivers. The system mimics orchestra woodwinds brass and strings by adjusting harmonics.
An analysis notes annual US pension and military costs totaling about 340 million dollars, contrasting with agriculture spending and long term farm subsidies. Dispatches from Pierre, South Dakota report high winds and a dust storm that hurled potatoes from a farmhouse and shattered glass. It ends with a tongue in cheek claim onion juice may cure appendicitis, suggesting the disease will become unfashionable.
Broad mix of Iowa items notes George Shirley's death in Waterloo at 86, John L. Brown in Cedar township. a southeast O'Brien county cyclone damages barns and bridges. burglar arrests near Dallas Center. county financial reporting breaches questioned by Iowa Historical Society. various accidents, fires, and legal cases across towns. Boone to consider a 1000 barrel daily cereal mill. railway upgrades announced for Des Moines and Chicago routes. Webster City phone war ends with doctor connections restored.
Illinois coal operators and miners reach a settlement restoring the 1903 wage scale. Miners agree to pay shot firers wages and push for repeal of the shot firers law by the next legislature, while indemnifying operators for losses from unauthorized strikes. The long strike, affecting about 55,000 miners since April 1, nears end.
The denatured alcohol bill with senate amendments passed the House on May 28 on the motion of Mr. Payne of New York. The measure now goes to the president for his signature.
Reports from St Petersburg and Moscow say former Finance Minister Shipoff has been summoned to Peterhoff to confer with Emperor Nicholas about forming a new cabinet. It remains unclear if the summons is an Imperial command or a routine consultation.
Revolutionary troops have crossed the Guatemala border from the north and from El Salvador and British Honduras. They are well armed and equipped. The stated object of these expeditions is to Americanize Guatemala.
Washington May 29 Justice Brown retires from the United States Supreme Court official notice by Chief Justice Sleuller. The retiring justice published correspondence showing the eight colleagues’ high appreciation of his service and Brown thanked the court for their goodwill.
In St Louis on May 29 the morning opened at 38 degrees, then cooled to 44 degrees by yesterday, a 29 degree drop in 24 hours. Snow fell briefly for five minutes yesterday morning, though not officially recorded by the weather bureau. The 44 degree May low marks a record for St Louis.
The Iowa State Auditor report on fire insurance shows 1905 losses paid rose sharply to 4 112690.25 from 2 245623.71 in 1904 with fire risks written at 393 662 247.88 in 1905. It cites Sioux City fire losses of December 1904 paid in 1905, urges a uniform policy, and notes 118 fire insurers plus county and state mutuals totaling 290. It also covers taxes, exam plans, and proposed TB hospital sites across Des Moines and other cities.
Iowa abstractors advocate a knowledge test for abstractors as no statutory qualifications exist in the state. The idea was urged at the Iowa Abstractors Association’s upcoming third annual meeting in Des Moines on June 6. Members noted last year that a real estate law test should apply to abstractors.
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