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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17
A TELEPHONE NEWSPAPER
Budapest Telephone Company Makes
A Business of Gcssipnc on Wire.

Budapest Telephone Company Makes
A Business of Gossipinc on Wire.
American telephone subscribers are
familiar with the use of the central
switchboard operator for the dissem-
nation Of news. Any good-natured
operator will give on the time of day
upon request. and in the smaller
towns one can often find out where
the fire is. and whether or not they
have caught the man who broke into
Squire Miller's barn But it has re-
manned for Budapest, way off in tele-
phonically barbarous Europe. to
make the completest use of the tele-
phone as a news bureau.
The scheme is news service.
which is turned on at stated times
throughout the day. In the morning
the days program is announced. so
that the subscriber may take up his
receiver and listen whenever the
thing that he is interested in are on
tap. There are hours for stock quo
tations and weather forecasts. In
the late afternoon cafe music is turn
ed on, and in the evening, opera
Thus does the Budapest telephone
company make housekeeping and
gOssiping on the wire source of
profit to them. as they charge their
patrons $731 per year two cents a
day. for the service 1t is as if
the whole city We're on the one par
ty wire with everybody listening to
what is going on.
1t is not likely that America will
soon adopt the Budapest plan. With
our newspapers coming out every
hour, our "ticklers" with business
and sporting news, and our omni-
scient, all-wise American hello"
girls, the need is fairly well met.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17
THE TALE OF a NIGHTHAWk.
Cabby Has One Put Over on Him BY
Phiade lphia Couple.


Here is one in which the "cabby"
got the worst of it, He usually is
right on the job when it comes time
fer the fare to loosen up for the ride,
but in this instance he missed his
cue and is still looking for the foxy
passenger and the ten-spot promised
him.
No. 420 tells the incident as a good
joke on himself although he is the
loser.
81 was navigating down Walnut
street." he said when a gent with a
fair young thing on his arm pops out
of Zeisse's Hotel apparently in a
great hurry for ride. ! puts on the
reverse and the gent says to me:
'Cabby, l want ride, and keep go
ing till l tell you to stop"
Right you are, sir | says, and
they climbed aboard. Well, I drove
them and | drove them. When |
came to about o'clock in the morn
ing l found that we were somewhere
in the wilds Of West Philadelphia.
Mr.. Man sticks his head out of the
trap door and directed me to drive
little further on, and when I came
to a large white house with an iron
railing around it to slide in the drive
way without making any noise and
let him out
81 did so, and when I had negoti-
ated the house and the iron ratings
and the driveway. and several other
things he and she climbed out. He
says to me, 'Cabby what's the taxi
About SO. EN-? I says. and then he
begins to tumble in his jeans for the
necessary.
"After much searching he produced
one lonely bone and presented it to
me, with the promise that he would
make it right with me the next day,
with a five-spot on the side.
''Well, of course, 7 fell, and assured
him that the arrangement was o. K.
and left them standing on the veran-
da, the cute young thing waving her
handkerchief after me.
Yesterday | thought ] would look
up Mr.. Man and his big white house
and his iron railing and remind him
of the IA coming to me. When 7 ar
rived there 7 discovered taht said
house was empty and deserted and
had probably been SO for several
months.
"Well, they got a good long ride for
a dollar, but how did they get home?"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17
A LONG SEARCH.
Salesman Finally Locates Mother and
Sister in Iowa.

After a search of % years w. w.
Markell, travelling salesman of Co
lumbus. has succeeded in locating
his mother and sister Markell, when
10 days old, was given to a family
of the name he is now known by, by
his mother, who went South during
the Civil War to nurse his father. a
soldier wounded in battle.
While searching through an old
Bible when a boy he learned that his
name was not Markell, but Lucas. and
upon the slip of paper upon which
this was written it told how he had
been left with the Markets in Sou
thern Michigan, who moved away be-
fore the mother returned from the
South.
When he became old enough he be-
gan search for his people. and was
informed that his mother and sister,
Mrs. J. f. Neff. were living at Ash
ton. Iowa.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17
Chinese Avoid FOREIGN Music

Consul General Knabenshue reports
from Tientsin that the only foreign
music the Chinese masses have ever
shown any interest in is the skirling
of the bagpipes of the Cameron
Highlanders when they We're in garri-
son there a couple of years ago He
advises an Ohio piano concern that
the market for their instruments is
practically confined to foreign resi-
dents. Some instruments have been
sold to wealthy Chinese, but simply
as pieces of furniture, there being
no teachers of instrumental music
for Chinese women and no demand
for them.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17
THE NEWEST SEA FOOD.
California Abaones Said to Be More
Delicate Than Oysters.


The abalone of the California
coast, famous for it's brilliant shell,
is the latest addition to the list Of
sea foods. The abalone is clean
feeder, so that its flesh is superior in
soundness and wholesomeness to that
of the oyster and other marine crea-
lures which live near shore in water
contaminated by many Impurities
The weight of fairy large fresh
abalone is two pounds. of which all
but half pound is good meat the
shell being very light. The meat is
nutritious, being highly albuminous,
like that of certain oysters. Holsters
and shell fish generally. Albumen is
one Of the chief elements of nutri-
ton in milk, cheese. eggs, etc
The flesh as it comes from the
shell is too tough to be eaten, wheth-
or uncooked. boiled. stewed, or fried
The toughness used to be partly elm
mated by pounding and hammering
it, but this did not render the meat
really tender. No matter how long
it may be boiled the fish remains
hard.
After many experiments a San
Franciscan named J. W. Gayetty dis
covered that if the abalone is killed
by electricity its flesh is rendered
soft and succulent like that of an
oyster. A company uses his method
at an abalone canning factory in San
Luis Obispo county.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

An incident which demonstrated
the sagacity with which elephants
are endowed occurred at Old Meld-
run, Aberdeenshire, the other day. on
the occasion of a visit of a circus to
the town.
At the conclusion of children's
performance an elephant proceeded
along a narrow road with a pail in
its trunk for the purpose of procur-
ing water from pump. little girl
CHANGED to get in the animals way,
and the road being only wide enough
to accommodate his substantial body
the elephant laid down the pail. pick
ed I'D the child with his trunk and
gently lifted her to place of safety,
afterward resuming his journey to
the pump for the water,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17
HANDICAPPED HUMANITY.
People Who Stammer Always Have
Their Own Troubles.

Among those of our lelloW-being5
afflicted with physical defects and IN
firmities, none are less pitied, nor
have less allowance made for their
handicap in life, than are stammer-
erS.
The blind, the dumb, the halt, the
palsied have pity, sympathetic and
practical, shoWered upon them. They
are not expected to compete in the
market OF life for bread to eat or
raiment to wear; where necessary,
these are theirs, either by public or
private benevolence.
They are practically exempt from
all sneers and reproach; nor are they
made the butt for cheap but cruel
wit. Kindly and comforting words are
always extended to them.
But with the persons affictCd-yea,
cursed-With stammering tongue
all this is different. We-fCr the
writer belongs to this unfortunate
company-seriously handicapped as
we are, have to stand on the same
mark in the race of life as those
whose tongue-cords are loosened, not
that there are any physical defOr-
mites in the voice organs Of STAN
merers, for stammering is a ques-
ton Of nerves, and, strange to relate,
of habit
Almost every sphere Of labor is
closed to us; the professions certain
ly are, The higher places in the
clerical world are not for us. and the
salesroOm counter knows us not.
We may be good craftsmen and in
every way fitted for the position Of
foremen and room managers; those
positions can never be ours, for the
factories, mills and workshops are
now fitted with speaking tubes and
telephones. We can never be com
mercials, for those positions call for
a ready tongue.
Then, again, the question Of tele-
phones and railways. Once, and once
only, have | attempted to speak over
the wires 1t required a great effort,
but the matter was urgent. ! knew
that the knowledge that some one
was listening at the other end would
increase my stammer.
l called for the number, and through
the tube came the sound of tittering
from the operator at the other end.
l could have complained; but that
would have only advertised my fail
ing. We are used to hooking laugh
ter, but language doesn't lessen the
anguish.
To ask for a railway ticket in a
crowded booking office is cruel or
deal. I usually assume dumbness
and write my request, or I have simu-
lated being a foreigner, and. in brok-
en- English, have hidden my stammer,
and got my ticket
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17
TIE TRAVELLING POSTOFFlCE.
Has Grown and Developed into the
Mooern Railway Mail Service.


Mooern Railway Mail Service.
One of the greatest advances ever
made in the postal service was the
origination OF the travelling post
office This was started in 1862, and
has developed and grown into the
modern railway mail service. Instead
of transporting the mails in bulk ana
assembling them in large distributing
pOSt-OftceS for separation and as
patch, they are sent directly to the
railway post-office to be distributed
on their way to destination. Ihls
poSt-Oftice is car or cars, operated
in trains between important termln-
ais, fitted up and furnished with dis
tributing cases and sack racks, IN
which railway postal clerks d.striD-
ute and handle the mails carried.
Here the mails are made up for TO-
cal delivery en- route, and for dis
patch to connecting lines.
This railway mail service directs
the dispatch Of all mails, determines
the routes over which they shall be
carried, and distributes them en-
route, so they are ready for delivery
to Offices along the line, and in some
cases making separations for city de-
livery upon arrival at large terminals.
To conduct this service there are
15,205 officers and clerks employed in
it at cost of over SIS, 100000 a year
The railway post-office lines cover
20S,4S1 miles of steam, electric and
steamboat routes.
The training of the railway postal
clerk is acquired by constant study
of the names and locations of post
offices and the schemes Of distribu-
ton and by the performance OF his
duties His vocation is a hazardous
one. Last year six clerks We're kill
ed. 104 seriously and $50 slightly in
jured in 4O5 railroad accidents.
Where this distribution space need
ed exceeds 80 feet Of a car. the Office
authorizes the company to furnish
specially built railway postoffi2N car
and allows additional pay for it. The
cost of this car service is over $4,-
10000.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17
BoLT-OF-CNoDs ROMANCE.
Pire-Eosrd Note Led = Romance
lining in Marris 7e,


A Dy,.t internation, romance
which re,-J.Iy eliminated in the
marriage Of Miss Meta Belmont, Of
Lowell, Mass, and Francisco de la
Pena, Of i'urbla, Mexico. is the prin-
cipal topic in this beautiful noun
tain city Of Mexico
Mrs. Pena is the daughter of a
mill superintendent in Lowell. In
the factory were made various grades
of cotton goods. Miss Belmont often
made silent wishes to herself that
she could take some Of the long trips
on which the bolts of goods were
going. One day, three years ago, in
spirit of fun she wrote upon the
smooth pine board upon which bolt
of goods was about to be wrapped.
these words:
"Oh, | am SO very, very lonely;
please do write me a letter Meta
Belmont, S061 Mulberry street, Low,
ell, Mass"
This bolt found it's way to 8. large
uFE SOOuS store IN PueDla owned Dy
the Pena family. Francisco de la
Pena, son of the principal owner Of
the establishment, had just measured
off the last piece of goods from the
bolt when his attention was attracted
to the Inscription upon the pine
board. In his room that night he
wrote letter to the young lady who
had sent the appeal to this remote
part Of the continent. 1t led to an
uninterrupted correspondence, the de-
cision on the senor's part to learn
English, and on the Yankee girls
part to learn Spanish
Then came the marriage proposal.
Miss Belmon'ts father objected strong
ly to the match Accompanied by his
father, the long trip from Puebla to
Lowell was made several months
ago. The senior Pena and his son
were received at the home of Miss
BelmOnts parents and the couple
there for the first time met each
other, and the objection of Mr. Bel
mont to the marriage was quickly
overcome
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17
WORKING WOMEN AND DIVORCE
Universal Opinion Was That Mar
rage Should Be Held Sacred.

rage Should Be Held Sacred.
The Divorce Commission recently
appointed in England has unearthed
some interesting opinions from work
ing women on that always interest
ing question. A month ago it Oc-
Cured to the commission to take the
views Of working women, and the re-
suit was startling to say the least.
TIE witness who contributed the
most information was Llelyn Davies
general secretary of the Women's
COOPERATIVE Guild, which has a
membership list of 2SS97 members.
The questions asked by the commits
sion dealt almost entirely with the
equalization Of conditions between
husband and wife, and the cheaper
ing Of divorce proceedings, so as
to bring them within the reach of the
poorer classes. Almost without ex-
ception the women We're opposed to
divorce altogether. Previous to that
information, prominent member Of
the commission had stated privately
that it was the universal opinion
that most women favored divorce as
a means of relief to women who are
unable to stand british husbands.
That working women thought in all
seriousness that marriage should
be held sacred, regardless Of condi-
tons that followed it, was a great
surprise to the commission, this
member said.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17
FEED 200 PERSONS FOR SIS.
Two Hundred Girls Are Cared For
At This Expenditure.


The girl interested in the cost of
living problem put this question to
the Barnard undergraduates should
we ever have imagined before that
we could feed two hundred persons
for the scant amount of So" That
referred to the habit Of the several
college associations of buying enough
lemons and cakes for S. to provide
Refreshments" consisting solely OF
lemonade and cakes, for the guests
they entertained. At a recent social
meeting of the snphOmOres almost
two hundred girls, including many
freshmen, We're present. and each
was expected to get her share or
lemonade and cake out Of the limited
supply. The strange part of it was
that most of thom got i. Fashions
in dress are carefully avoided by all
the promoters of the uplift move
ment. AS college girls they pretend,
in the editorial columns, that fla
shions are too worldly to hold their
attention. But gossip is not under
the ban as n subject for discussion.
One writer regrets to find so many
Barnard undergraduates engaging in
"character analysis" when they might
be discussing philosophy.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17
The Fore of Habit.

Nothing more impressive could be
written upon habit than is found in
William James's discussion of its
ethical and pedagogical Importance in
his Psychology" we are spinning
our own fates, good or evil, and never
to be undone." he says on the last
page of the brilliant chapter Every
smallest stroke of virtue or of vice
leaves its never so little scar. The
drunken Rip Van Wrinkle in Jeffer-
sons play CVcuses himself for every
fresh derolictiOn by saving. I won't
count this time,' Well, he may not
count it: a kind heaven may not
count it; but it is being counted
none the less, Down among his
nerve cells and fibres the molecules
are counting it, registering and stOr-
ing it up to be used against him when
the next temptation comes. Nothing
we ever do is. in strict scientific lit
eralness. wiped out"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

A wood block pavement in Paris
used exclusively by automobiles is
said to be better after three years
wear than when it was new. and
there have been no repairs upon it.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17
Power of the Kitchen.

Much, maybe most, of the misery
we see among the wage-winning folk
is due to want of home comfort and
cherishing. Nothing could help this
out better than the careful instruc-
ton of girls in cookery, marketing,
housekeeping and domestic economy
generally. If all Woodworking people
had good food in plenty at prices
well within their means, the family
would already be half saved from the
doctor, the saloon and the domestic
relations court, even if the lady of
the house was bit short on geology,
astronomy and piano playing.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

Headwear made of straw was in
use among the ancient Greeks, but
straw hats as worn to-day did not
come into use in Europe until half a
century ago.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

The craving for tobacco is decreas-
ed after smoker has climbed to
great height. Smoking under such
circumstances is found to be some
what labOriOuS
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

An Ohio inventor has patented a
"coin-in-the-slot" gasoline dispensing
machine. to be placed along country
roads frequented by automobilists.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

The cottonwood tree is rich with
gas and experiments are being con
Quoted with the view of extracting
it and burning 1t from a holder.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

Blackmail was originally a COM
pulsory payment for the protection of
cattle in the border counties, but was
prohibited in 1901 by Queen Eliza
beth.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

Philadelphia has the largest per-
centage of improved streets of any
of the largest six cities in the United
States.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

The first steel rails ever rolled in
Australia recently were turned out
by a New South Wales iron works.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

1t is estimated that every square
mile of the ocean is inhabited by
100, 900, 900 living creatures
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

A rubber roller has been inserted
in a cigarette paper holder by a
French inventor to push ont a single
sheet at a time.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

The children of Japan are taught
to make use of both hands indiscrlm-
inately.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

Electricity now does practically all
the work in the kitchen of the United
States Military academy at West
Point. N. Y.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

There are advantages in growing
old. 1t settles many questions.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

A large Hamburg restaurant is
housed in building of compressed
paper.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

Amsterdam has three floating docks
for repairing ships and is building
fourth.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-11-17

OF every hundred pounds of food
we eat. fourteen pounds consist of
potatoes.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1914-03-25
TRULY A VALUABLE HOUND
Visitor From Costa Rlea Tells story
Which Some People Might Find
II Hard to Believe.
AZ last the existence OF tho banana

Al last the existence OF tho banana
hound has been shown TO be fact!
A man who just arrived In this
country from Port Limon. Costa Rica.
not only knows all about the banana
hound. but has a drove OF them him
self The gentleman is Hezekiah
Spottiswood, and for many years the
owner OF banana plantation In CoAta
Rica.
is the banana hound n new discov'
cry up here?" he asked In surprise.
My word, how singularl Why. We al.
ways have them. They are very es'
sential adjunct to a banana planta'
ton: indispensable almost, should
say. What Is the breedH They are
a cross between pointer and South
American tapir.
ITS very necessary thing TO know
when to pick the bananas from the
trees. you know. When they have at
tanned a certain shade OF green. then
10 the time. Now It's very dificult to
have n man so thoroughly up In color
that he can determine this matter,
That Ia where the banana hound
comes In. He trots the groves with
man behind him. and scents the
bunchss which should bs picked. He
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1914-03-25
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