Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Telephone Message Bureau of New York City, founded last week, solves these questions. It has made arrangements with the New York Telephone Co. to have the names of Message Bureau subscribers listed in the telephone directory with instructions that, if no one answers the phone, the Message Bureau (Susquehanna 4500) should be called. There, the message is taken and mailed to the subscriber. Or, he can telephone to the Message Bureau for it, if he desires...
...Atlantic telephone service expected that their income would come largely from business men who want things done efficiently, and in a hurry. But, last week, Frank Baldwin Jewett, vice president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, revealed that 43% of the trans-Atlantic phone calls have been of a social or frivolous nature, that 28% were miscellaneous, human interest calls, that 25% were business calls between bankers and brokers, that only 1% were between newspapermen...
...Weight 165. Medium brown hair, out short. Bluish-grey eyes. Believed to be wearing a single-breasted suit of dark brown or grayish mixture. He is known to have been wearing a hat but no overcoat. No luggage. Those having any information are asked to communicate by phone or wire to J. R. Hamlen, Lehman Hall, Cambridge, Telephone, University...
State Detective Northampton, Mass. Phone...
Again he stopped talking, this time to tear up two phone books at once for a little afternoon exercise. Asked why he had run away from home, he answered. "I wanted to meet Buffalo Bill. All German boys read about Buffalo Bill. He gave me confidence when all my teachers said I would be a burn. So I sold my pet rabbits, changed my name, and started for Hamburg. I sailed on a Russian ship, thinking I would reach American. I landed in Australia and found that the world is round...