Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1911 — Can’t Judge by the Voice. [ARTICLE]

Can’t Judge by the Voice.

One of the duties of a certain clerk in a Philadelphia drug store is to telephone advertisements to a certain newspaper. About the softest voice that the clerk ever heard is always at the other end of the wire. After he had phoned a dozen times or so he began to get a little more familiar, and after that he carried cm quite a flirtation with the stranger in the newspaper office. By and by he sent around candy, a box a week. The soft voice would always tell him how good it was the next day, and this was compensation enough. But he longed to see the possessor of the voice. He said so, but the owner told him he would have to be satisfied with hearing the voice. It was a mighty soft voice. The other day the clerk took, the situation into his own hands and dropped into the newspaper office. He asked a red-headed, freckled kid at the switchboard who took down the ads? “I do," said Reddy. And beside all else, the clerk had spent $6.75 for candy!