The rural free delivery and other forms of the mail service extend to 58,000 communities, while our 10,000,000 telephones encompass 70,000.

We use this instrument for all the varied experiences of life, domestic, social, and commercial.

There are residences in New York City that have private branch exchanges, like a bank or a newspaper office.

Hostesses are more and more falling into the habit of telephoning invitations for dinner and other diversions.
Many people find telephone conversations more convenient than personal interviews, and it is every day displacing the stenographer and the traveling salesman.
Perhaps the most noteworthy achievement of the telephone is its transformation of country life.

In Europe, rural telephones are almost unknown, while in the United States one-third of all our telephone stations are in country districts.