For every person who has a telephone m England, thirteen people in the United States have been progressive enough to have one installed. In America it would appear, telephones are almost as common as fountain pens. There are in Sweden sixty-four telephones per thousand people, in Switzerland thirty, and in Germany twentynine. For England the figure is nineteen. France, however, can only boast nine telephones per thousand persons, and Italy has only three.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17701, 1 March 1923, Page 8
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