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Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
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ate as someplan is being unfolded to him. With thekey ring held upon the first finger of onehand he removes one key after the otherover the top of the ring and to the otherside of the bunch. When these keys moveslowly, the petitioner is making a favor-able impression, but if the movementquickens, it is said by those who know,to indicate a negative, proportional tothe keys r. p. m. Mr. Niesz was married to Miss OllieMae Wasson of Cincinnati, in 1901. He is a member of the National Elec-tric Light Association, Class B, and alsoa member of the commercial section. Hehas always been active in the organiza-tion and served in 1905 as editor of theQuestion Box. He is also a memberof the Electric Vehicle Association, ofthe Illuminating Engineering Society, ofthe Sons of Jove, associate member ofthe American Institute of Electrical En-gineers, Member of the Engineers Club.the Chicago Athletic Club, the SouthShore Country Club and the CalumetCountry Club. ^~fisb~^ THEY BURNED THE TALKING COCONUT
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ONE DAY A DELEGATION OF NATIVESCAME AND ASKED US TO BURN IT Sanford Jones, employed by the gov-ernment in the Philippines, relates thefollowing story: I was stationed onthe Island of Basilan in the Sulu Archi-pelago. The natives of this island wereso uncivilized that they did not evenknow the value of money, and of coursehad never heard of such a thing as a tele-phone. We frequently had them entertain uswith their native dances and in turnwould fill them with wonder and awewith a phonograph which we had in ouroutfit. AVe found it necessary to put upa telephone line between two buildingsthat were a little distance apart, usingtwo Western Electric magneto sets. One day I chanced to find a ratherlarge sized coconut under a tree nearthe bamboo hut we were living in, andconceived the idea of making the coco- nut talk. So I emptied its contents andhung it on the outside of the house oppo-site the telephone and so arranged thatwe could put the receiver through thegrass wall and drop it into

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