Town Without Telephones
America, land of super-civilisation, super-achievements, even super-disas-ters, can be as paradoxical as the East. Where there is an automobile to every four persons, so that tho whole population could be trv.v'*" i ng at the same time, e":;dle of the ■ talkie,” netted with telegraph wire.-, the very air above palctrned by tho shuo'des cl speeding feroplano:, there is still a city of 30,000 inhabitants without one single telephone. It is Welch, a busy section of the West Virginian coal iields. It is claimed that similar conditions are not to be found anywhere else in the United States, and tho telephone authorities are unable to explain the phenomenon.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7409, 17 December 1930, Page 10
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110Town Without Telephones Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7409, 17 December 1930, Page 10
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