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The History of the Telephone

CHAPTER VI
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As the Japanese said, it was this "flying telephone" that enabled Oyama to manipulate his forces as handily as though he were playing a game of chess.

It was in this war, too, that the Mikado's soldiers strung the costliest of all telephone lines, at 203 Metre Hill.
When the wire had been basted up this hill to the summit, the fortress of Port Arthur lay at their mercy.

But the climb had cost them twenty-four thousand lives.
Of the seven million telephones in the United States, about two million are now in farmhouses.

Every fourth American farmer is in telephone touch with his neighbors and the market.

Iowa leads, among the farming States.


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