Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1888 — A Cheap Telephone. [ARTICLE]

A Cheap Telephone.

Demorest’s Monthly. To make a servicaab'e telephone from oae house to another only reqnires enough wire and two cigar boxes. First self ct your boxes, and make a hole ha!f an inch in diameter in the centre of the bottom of each, and then place one in each cf the houses you wish to connect; then get five pounds cf common iron stovepipe wire, make a loop in one and put it through the hole in your cigar box and fasten it with a nail; then draw it tight to the other box, supporting it when necessary with a stout cord. You can easily run your line into the house by boring a hole through the glass. Support your boxes with slats nailed across the window and your telehone is complete. The writer has one that is 200 yards long and c ost fortyfive cent! that will carry mtuic when the organ ir playing thirty feet away in another room.