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Title: Modern telephone service for the home.
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York? : American Telephone & Telegraph Co.)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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For a good part of the year, though, we spend more time on thesun-porch than in the living-room. To arrange a foursome, to getthe crowd together for dancing or contract, to have the car broughtaround, takes no time at all with a telephone, permanent or port-able, right at ones elbow. These portable telephones plug intoinconspicuous jacks in the wall and are moved from room to roomas easily as a table-lamp. When one has become accustomed to thisconvenience, one feels that a house without telephone jacks is notfully equipped for modern living. C^ u-
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The truest reflection of hospitality is to provide the guestroomwith conveniences that will make it another home for all whooccupy it. One of the most appreciated of these evidences of awarm welcome to the friends who come to share ones roof is theguest-room telephone which promises for them complete privacy aswell as comfort for the messages they may send or receive. If desired,a permanent installation may be made. Many home-owners, however, prefer simply to install a jack for a portable telephone, whichmay be used elsewhere when the guest-room is not occupied. cv. c/^ ^. V

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