Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1914 — Amazing Telephone Totals. [ARTICLE]

Amazing Telephone Totals.

It is difficult to imagine our mod*, ern complicated life being carried on without telephones. There are today more than twelve million five hundred thousand telephones in actual use throughout the world and more than thirty million miles of telephone wire are used. In other words, if these wires were wound around the globe they would form a band of more than one thousand threads. • In the course of a year some twentythree billion people shout “hello” through the telephone. This Is about five times the number of people traveling annually on all the railroads In the world. The longest commercial 2,160 miles. * •. i