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Newspaper
The New Vienna Reporter
Location
New Vienna, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1925
Page
3
A humorous look at the many animals and pests from woodpeckers to squirrels gnawing cables and causing outages. An owl in Coshocton tangled in wires stops toll lines. Ohio Bell crews race to fix it. Notes the burden on users and workers and mentions Baltimore telephones and AT&T ownership.
The Ohio Bell Telephone Company has shifted from horses and motorcycles to automobiles. J. P. Casserly notes 500 autos serve 512,000 telephone area across 40,000 square miles in 86 of 88 Ohio counties. Eight garages keep cars in constant repair as they travel 4,500,000 miles yearly with maintenance costing $8 daily per vehicle. Only one chauffeur is used. regular employees drive the cars. Across the Bell system 8,360 autos and trucks cover hundreds of millions of miles of wire P.O.
Manufacturing News notes 1922 US telephone activity with 96 250,000,000 calls and an average 68,000,000 local plus 1,700,000 distance calls. Estimating one mile per call and thirty miles, the total tolls reach about 400,000,000 tolls.
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