Growth of Bell system and global telephone expansion
After Bell patents expired in 1894 competition rose in telephony. Independent firms faded while American Bell and its successor grew into a holding company. By 1946 U S telephone density and earnings rose, with Chicago and other cities surpassing European metrics and millions of farms connected to phones.
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Coir
Sermion Bay
Tatrdday
Mari
Bell
American Bell Telephone Company
American ‘Telephone and ‘Telegraph Company
Bell Operating Companies
United States
Great Britain
France
Italy
Japan
Canada
Denmarle
Switzerland
Sweden
Chicago
London
Cs Mn
Tokyo
Denver
Moscow
Advertising Rates and Associated Press Copyright Notice
The notice lists Bed Kimball Inc locations in New York Chicago Detroit Pittsburgh Philadelphia and describes AP news dispatch rights and republishing policy. It provides mailing options at 6.00 yearly and 98.00 yearly with advance payment, and carrier prices per copy and weekly rate, plus advertising rate policy.
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BED Kimball, Inc
Ath St
New York
Juste
Chicago
Gig & Bond
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Philadephia
Associated Press
Corry
Vial
Vance
U S Telephone System and Private Enterprise History
A discussion of a potential general strike by long lines operators linked to the National Federation of Telephone Operators. The article traces U.S. reliance on private enterprise for telephones, contrasts with other nations, and outlines 19th and early 20th century development from Morse to Bell, noting growth from under a million to about 27 million telephones with one line per 31 people.
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U-8
National Federation of Telephone Operators
United States
LaGuardia
New York
Senate Foreign Relations
St. Lawrence
Samuel F. B. Morse
Morse
Johnson
Congress
Alexander Graham Bell
Bell Companies
Quiz questions from a classified age column
A garbled OCR quiz item asks about Joel Chandler Harris characters, military justice, ship types, assassination of a president, industrial diseases, Soviet terminology, Indonesian island Jogjakarta, planetary approach, abdication for independence, and Social Security Act retirement benefits.
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Joel Chandler Harris
Coral Sea
Mel Minkey
Melitpol
Deninsila
Soviet Russia
Jogjakarta
Petor
Bent files papers for lieutenant governor in Harrisburg
John Bent of Westmoreland county, a former Democratic floor leader in the state Senate, filed initiation petitions for lieutenant governor with the elections bureau. Speaker Ira P. Wise filed for the Republican nomination for the district seat, and other candidates, including incumbent Robert Rick of Woolrich, filed petitions for Congress.
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Harrisburg
John 4— Bent
Westmoreland County
Elections Bureau
Ate Senate
Ira P. Wise
State House of Representatives
Laisehuer
Congress
Robert Rick
Woolrich
Crescent Tool Strike Binds Jamestown Plant
About 450 workers at Crescent Tool Company walked out at 9 90 am on Wednesday, nearly halting production for under an hour. The strike, approved by a National Labor Relations Board election nine months earlier, stemmed from wage and piece rate disputes. Workers, Local 1351 of the International Association of Machinists AFL, gathered at Central Labor Hall and posted pickets after a year of stalled negotiations.
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Jamestown
Cresent Tool Company
National Labor Relations Board
Elec Non
International Association of Michiniste
AFL
Gentral Labor Hall
Iselary
Henry McSweeney Services Saturday
Funeral services for Henry McSweeney 91 lawyer and philanthropist formerly of Oil City Pa will be held here Saturday. He died Tuesday McSweeney came to Atlantic City from Oil City in 1912.
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Henry McSweeney
Aswwotayed Press
Atlantic City
N. J
March T—Puneral
Oil City
McSweeney
OM City
Retrial Sought in Rice Case Over Jury Threats
Mayville report states Willard W. Cass files for a new trial in the George W. Rice and Rice Acq Associates case after juror Elia Waters swears Alexander Hutton warned jurors to convict. affidavit cites threats and coercion allegedly to keep jurors from leaving the room.
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Mayville
George W. Rice
Rice Acq Sociates, Inc
Frencburg Health Clinic
Willard W. Cass
Prewsburg
Elia Waters
Ripley
Rice and His Corporation
Alexander Hutton
Hutton
Gass Seeks Retrial After Guilty Verdict Contested
Under Section 485 of the Code of Criminal Procedure Mr Gass quotes Rice claiming the guilty verdict was contrary to facts law and evidence. A motion for retrial will be made at a special term of county court.
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Gass
Rice
Mayville Trial Move Cited By Defense
In a March 18 hearing at Mayville the defense argued misconduct and claimed the verdict was influenced by improper means. They contended jurors failed to express a fair opinion and substantial rights of the defendants were violated.
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Mayville
Soult
Blood donor fainting during war emergency studied
The Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania reports on 194 138 blood donors noting fainting occurrences during the war emergency. Weakness dizziness yawning and restlessness followed by brief unconsciousness and pallor were common. Epigastric distress nausea and sweating also appeared in some cases.
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Pallot
Hervuusi
Hazleton Dairies Resume Milk Deliveries After Strike
Hazleton Pa March 9 Dairies say they will resume sales and deliveries after a strike over OPA milk price demands. OPA approved a one cent per quart boost effective last midnight. dairies sought five cents and will negotiate for more to cover rising costs. Willis B Daniels from the Milk Dealers Association cites ongoing area study by OPA officials for 100 000 people.
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Hazleton
Leton Dairies
OPA
Willis B. Daniels
Milk Dealers Association of Pennsylvania
Office of Economic Stabilization
Daniels
Dairies
War Labor Board
Rare Eye Transplant Shocks Erie Teacher in New York Hospital
Ruth Rider, a Latin teacher from Erie, underwent a rare corneal transplant at a large New York hospital. The operation used corneas from a death person with Ramon Castraviegio performing the procedure. Six months later Rider reports restored sight and calls the surgery a success.
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Ruth Rider
Erie Beton
New York Hospital
New
Ramon Castraviegio
Amiss Rider
Academy
Kenilworth
Fest Brielte
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