COSTLY 'PHONE CALLS
DISTANCE STOLE ENCHANTMENT CHICAGO, Nov. 26. Mr. James Bussell, Superintendent of the Public Service, considers that there can be too much of a good tiling. That is why he has ordered the telephone company to disconnect Franklin 3193, in the pressi room of the County building. Somehow news got out that it was there for the public convenience. Nobody kept a check on its use, and Mr Russeli was dumbfounded when the company demanded £465 for October fees. The company’s records sliftw that an early morning call was made by some lad,' who ’’phoned a- girl in Berlin whom he had met during the war. He used £l6 trying to make his old sweetheart understand his broken German. Otie reporter overheard the charwoman calling her old home in Czecho-Slovakia, and the records ■ show conversations with Sing Sing prison and the steamer Makura, in' San Francisco.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 11
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148COSTLY 'PHONE CALLS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 11
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