"ASK INFORMATION"
A TELEPHONE , Many telephone subscribers dial 394, Information, when they want the latest in sports results, weather forecasts, and such matters. Others take a literal translation of the notice in the telephone book that "other matters of public interest will be furnished, if available," and ask Information to shed light on some of the queerest questions imaginable. A thin female voice came over tly3 wire the other night. '' Oh, Information, could you tell me the name of the little birds that migrate overy year from Now Zealand to Siberia, and then fly back again? My friend says they are titbits, but I'm sure that's not their proper name." Information, for once, was stumped, and said so. Perhaps it might ease the lady's mind to know that the birds are called godwits. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 81, 6 April 1926, Page 11
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