Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1899 — COSTLY TELEPHONE TALK. [ARTICLE]

COSTLY TELEPHONE TALK.

Brooklyn and St. Louie Men Pay $3,000 for O Chat. A chat over the long-distance telephone between Brooklyn nnd St. Louis last week cost the conversationalists mere than ?3,000. A man in the trolley car borough and another in the Mound City talked to each other for about fifty hours. Most of the talking was deny between the hours of 8 p. m. and 6 a. m. when the rate between Brooklyn nnd St. Louis is $5- for the first five Mtantcs and -fl a minute for additional time.