THE TELEPHONE.
■ Lady Norah Spsncer-Churchili, sister of the Duke of Marlborough, in telling :i; a : grown-up paper " her reminiscences .of forty year.* ,at Blemheirn,; : mentions the ;(treat ;• excitement; the introduction ; of[ffia telephone caused in that great house. . - ; v-; , '"When insiore Bleinli'eini"ln''the j early nineties," she relates^:' -they were struck by those ordinary things, the telephones, in the wall. What on earth are they? -How do you use ': them? they: asked." And »he mentions that the family lawyer advified her : brother, then an undergraduate of : 21, "to sell ; the telephone shares which my father had bought, asi he dad not think telephones bad, come to otagj- " ;,;■■-,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18457, 21 July 1923, Page 3 (Supplement)
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105THE TELEPHONE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18457, 21 July 1923, Page 3 (Supplement)
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