Five Year Plan To Spend 63 Million On Telephone Plant
W S Gifford president of American Telephone and Telegraph and Albert E Berry president of Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Companies disclosed a five year program to invest about 63 million dollars in the District of Columbia Maryland Virginia and West Virginia. The plan covers new buildings central offices extensions to switchboards additional plant and cable systems including aerial and underground lines and long distance circuits throughout the region.
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Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
W. S. Gifford
Walter S. Gifford
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Albert E. Berry
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Companies
Mr. Gifford
Mr.Berry
New Hours On Calls To Great Britain
Daylight saving time changes telephonic contacts with Britain. New U S zones set hours from 7 30 A M to 1 P M New York time and transatlantic service expands nationwide with a $3 per zone rate for three minute calls. Since January 7 1927 public access grew to 1 425 000 English telephones and 17 500 000 American telephones.
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New York
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Atlantic
New England
Middle Atlantic
Ohio
Indiana
Hilneis
London
England
Scotland
Wales
Million Daily Calls Rise in St Louis System
The city of St. Louis now records 1,332,000 daily telephone calls, averaging about seven calls per phone. The rush from 9:00 to 10:00 A.M. accounts for over ten percent of all calls, marking the busiest hour of the day.
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City of
St. Louis
Regrets of Lloyd George on transatlantic radio service
Former British premier David Lloyd George says the new transatlantic radio telephone would have greatly helped in World War I. He cites many subjects he wished to discuss directly with Woodrow Wilson and believes many issues could have been clarified and settled quickly.
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David Lloyd George
Great Britain
Woodrow Wilson
Fact article on early telephone growth and links
The text notes 1496 telephones in the New York Stock Exchange and Seattle’s growth from 90 telephones in 1883 to over 106000 today. It predicts long distance service between Mexico City and major U S points this year. Nashville connected with Chicago and New York by long distance telephone on November 1900.
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New York Stock Exchange
Seattle
Mexico City
United States
Nashville, Tenn
Chicago
New York
Workers and Investors Share Nation’s Income
The National Industrial Conference Board reports that in the past year only four of ten Americans earned wages while six in ten relied on investment income or support from workers. The survey covers occupational distribution across major industries.
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United States
National Industrial Conference Board
Achievements in Communication Field and Television Rise
In this era of rapid science, communications lead with transatlantic radio, remote image transmission, and early television. Officials describe television as a distant service breakthrough, though not yet home or office ready, with Bell System research stressing long term development and practical limits.
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Frank B. Jewett
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Parrot Alerts Family By Calling Telephone Ring
A Long Island parrot named Mitora announces a telephone ring for Mrs. Elizabeth F. Staines of Long Island City. The parrot shouts Telephone, telephone until someone answers, then remains quiet during talks and replies Oh, that's all right after Mrs. Staines says Thank you, Mitora.
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Long Island
Mitora
Elizabeth F. Staines
Long Island City
Transatlantic Cotton Sale Breaks Time Record
J S Billingslea, president of the Georgia Cotton Company in Albany, reports selling $60,000 worth of cotton in just three minutes via transatlantic radio telephone in a conversation between Albany and Liverpool. The 4500 mile link highlights rapid early 20th century trade innovation.
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Georgia Cotton Company
J. S. Bllingslea
Albany
Georgia
Liverpool
Testing the Buddy Cohen and the Radio Battery
Buddy Cohen shows interest in a new radio and its storage battery. Max explains battery testing with a hydrometer. A few days later Mrs Cohen falls ill and a physician uses a thermometer. Buddy asks the doctor what voltage is mother.
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Buddy Cohen
Max
Out to Lunch Courtroom Quip Delays Subpoena Reading
A courtroom scene unfolds as a clerk directs the call for witnesses with a mistaken phrase. The bailiff proceeds, the judge remarks on the quiet, and the exchange ends without responses from the defendant or witnesses.
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Acreen
45 000 Bells in U S Tinkling Each Minute
The article notes that if calls were evenly distributed in 1926, over 45 000 conversations would start each minute in the United States. It explains peak loads at about ten in the morning and three in the afternoon, with $1 400 spent per minute on operating expenses and $16 500 in taxes per minute, highlighting the need for a vast system to handle peaks.
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United States
Affternoon
Adah Isaacs Menken Amazed London With Lady Macbeth
Adah Isaacs Menken, a Louisiana born 19th century actress, rose on beauty and charm. In London she performed Lady Macbeth without knowing lines, prompting Macbeth on cue as she received applause. Her pantomime Ces Pirates de la Sauvanne reportedly earned 8600 dollars on opening night. She hosted notable figures and died in Paris at age thirty three.
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Adah Isaacs Menken
Louisiana
London
Lady Macbeth
Ines
Macbeth
James E. Murdock
Charles Dickens
Charles Steade
the Duke of Edinburgh
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Jenny Lind
George Lund
Theophile Goutier
Alexander Dumas
Paris
Iansaa City
Atar
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Johnnie
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SBAE
Universal World Telephone Service
Washington
Herbert Hoover
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U. S
Niss
Henry R. Lewis
Emma Z. Whitaker
Harry C. Whitaker
Circuit Court For
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Equity
Chy
T. Clayton Horsey
Clayton Horsey
Peerless Thresher
Tioga
Charles Jarrell
Whlsboro, Md
M. H. Downes
Denton, Md
Buick
Easton
Buick Sales CO
Easton, Maryland
Austin R. Murpity
Denton
W. A. Smith
Manker St
WM. Pepper
Maryland Trust Building
Baltimore, Md
Elkton, Md
L. B. Towers & Bro
L. Everngam
Plaza
Blades, Rosenfeld & Frederick
Attorneys At Law
Fidelity
Baltimore
Standard Oil Company
N. J
C. H. Dean
Queen Anne
East Main Street
Holiness Church
Peoples Bank
Denton Volunteer Fire Company
É Lee
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem
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