Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1897 — Time by Telephone. [ARTICLE]

Time by Telephone.

The telephone is now employed to give the correct time to subscribers, and even to wake them up In the morning. The operator at the exchange “rings up” the subscribers who desire to be waked at a certain hour. For this purpose it is, of course, necessary that the telephone apparatus and call bell should be placed In the sleeper’s bedroom. Reports from the Pacific coast say that never in the history of the West have so many people taken passage on the steamers for Alaska. The discovery of gold in certain parts of the far-off territory is, of course, the attraction for many, of the visitors; but the increased facilities for transportation and the possibility of seeing some of the grandest scenery in the world have induced many tourists to choose Alaska rather than Europe as their objective point.