Wider Use Of Telephone Shown In A T T Report
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company reports a decade of expanding telephone use. About 34.3 million U S telephones, 92 percent interconnected with major lines, now reach 100000 plus telephones abroad. Ship-to-shore service expanded to nine more vessels, and a Kansas City Dallas cable links major cities with a storm-proof toll network and the longest direct all cable circuits to New York.
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New Zealand
Pan
China
Russia
United States
United
Bell System
Canada
Cuba
Mexico
Kansas City
Missouri
Dallas
Texas
New York-Dallas
Telephone Directory Use Reveals Classified Section Popular
A Bell Telephone Quarterly survey of 950 subscribers in Columbus shows 90 percent found the classifieds useful with 60 percent using it casually and 22 percent frequently. Taxicabs, plumbers, cleaners, physicians and laundries were among top referenced headings. Seasonal factors influenced listings like awnings in summer and furnaces in winter.
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Margaret du Flef
Bell Telephone Quarterly
Columbus
Ohio
A T and T Stockholders Grow Beyond Employees
A 1933 Telephone Almanac distributed by Chesapeake and Potomac shows 75 million daily spoken messages and Bell System reach to 92 percent of world telephones. It notes about 700,000 AT&T stockholders and Bell System plus Western Electric employing 300,000 people.
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Bell System
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Western Electric Company
Legumes for Low Cost Meals
Legumes such as beans and peas provide inexpensive filling protein and calcium. A week of legume dishes includes baked onions stuffed with beans and a split pea soup with celery parsley and milk, plus layered buttered bread crumbs with navy and kidney beans and milk.
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Mother Briggs
May Day Mystery on a Southern Campus
A quiet campus murder ties three suspects including two students and the popular girl to a professor. Detective Jim Hangey debuts to unravel intertwined clues in a second, apparently separate crime. Detective Harvey leads readers through ingenious, swift deductions as suspense builds.
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Southern University
Jim Hangey
Mr. Cohen
Harvey
Crossword Puzzle Folds Through The Journal 1925
The Journal's Crossword Puzzle presents a dense grid of clues and answer slots from 1925. Listed are horizontal and vertical clues, including foods, tools, animals, pronouns, and numeric references, with a closing note on a previous enigma.
Don’t Expect Remedies for Bad Mood From Bowel Tricks
The text warns against relying on salts, mineral water, oil, laxatives, or gum to lift a sour mood. It claims only a bowel movement results but fails to address the root cause, saying the liver should release two pounds of bile into the bowels.
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Carter
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Virginia
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Downes & Beck
Denton, Mi
Octavus Roy Cohen
Gustav Good & Bro., Watchmakers & Jewelers
Denton, MD
Western Newspaper Union
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Sky Blue
Drew
Garret
E. F. Withers
St. Denton, MD
M. A. Brackett
Market St
Denton
WM Pepper
Maryland Trust Building
Baltimore, Md
Elkton, Md
Second Street
Possession St
Dewrencer, Towers
Journal
LE Grande Food Stores
LE Grande Food
Calif
le Grande
Libby
Bee Brand
Pee Ann
de Luxe
Mokay
Lash WY
White House
High Rock
Legrande Flour
Uneeda
Aljeste
Ajax
J. P. Fowler
G. C. Cohee
T. L. Trice, JR
Preston, Md
Milford Kline
Hillsboro
C. Biger, Ridgely
R. H. Gibson
Queen Anne
J. W. Sylvester
Goldsboro
J. F. Lane
Harvey Fleetwood
A. K. Wrightson
Arnie’s Cash Grocery
I. Calvin Butler
Greensboro
W. W. Griffin
Henderson
Thomas Jefferson
the Peoples Bank of Denton
Henry T. Nuttle
J. Frank Wright
H. Clay Hobbs
W. H. Nuttle
Asst. Cashier
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