Crockery & glass journal . s way and under fire of the Russian cannon 150miles of wire were strung across the battlefield. As the Japanese said, it was this flying telephonethat enabled Oyama to manipulate his forces as handilyas though he were playing a game of chess. It was inthis war too that the Mikados soldiers strung the cost-liest of all telephone lines, at 203 Meter Hill. Whenthe wire had been basted up this hill to the summit thefortress of Port Arthur lay at their mercy. But theclimb had cost them 24,000 lives. Of the 7,000,000 telephones in the United States about2,000,000 are in fa
Crockery & glass journal . s way and under fire of the Russian cannon 150miles of wire were strung across the battlefield. As the Japanese said, it was this flying telephonethat enabled Oyama to manipulate his forces as handilyas though he were playing a game of chess. It was inthis war too that the Mikados soldiers strung the cost-liest of all telephone lines, at 203 Meter Hill. Whenthe wire had been basted up this hill to the summit thefortress of Port Arthur lay at their mercy. But theclimb had cost them 24,000 lives. Of the 7,000,000 telephones in the United States about2,000,000 are in farmhouses. Every fourth Americanfarmer is in telephonic touch with his neighbors and themarket. Iowa leads among the farming States. Not tohave a telephone in Iowa is to belong to what a Londonerwould call tenth of the population. Sec-ond in line comes Illinois, with Kansas, Nebraska andIndiana following closely behind, and at the foot of thelist in the matter of farm telephones are Connecticutand Louisiana. m. 75
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