. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. haps, in the years Laborious Task of Seeing the to COme We Point to Mutt and Jeff in the will look Sunday Newspaper back and regret a little our present con-suming anxiety for him to LEAD EATING BEETLES CAUSELINE TROUBLE A thickly populated section of a west-ern state lately experienced in its exten-sive telephone system a variety of linetrouble exceedingly annoying by virtueof its uncertainty of occurrence, its some-what mysterious nature, and the diffi-culties encountered in locating it. It seems that sub-scribers using the cables
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. haps, in the years Laborious Task of Seeing the to COme We Point to Mutt and Jeff in the will look Sunday Newspaper back and regret a little our present con-suming anxiety for him to LEAD EATING BEETLES CAUSELINE TROUBLE A thickly populated section of a west-ern state lately experienced in its exten-sive telephone system a variety of linetrouble exceedingly annoying by virtueof its uncertainty of occurrence, its some-what mysterious nature, and the diffi-culties encountered in locating it. It seems that sub-scribers using the cablesthroughout the districtat the time of rainfallvery frequently com-plained of sudden lossof service. The troublehas been found by thecompany supplying theservice to be due to therampages of a kind ofbeetle which bores itsway through the outerlead casing of the trunklines, thus permittingrainwater to enter andcause short circuits. It has been almost im-possible to locate coming Chinatown at Night POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 1147 trouble from colonies of these insects,which seem to bore into the cablesduring summer months, and usually thegeneral whereabouts of them is not knownuntil the moment one of the numerousinterior wir
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