Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1899 — COSTLY TELEPHONE TALK. [ARTICLE]

COSTLY TELEPHONE TALK.

Brooklyn and St. Lon Io Men Pay *3,000 for a Chat. ▲ chat over the long-distance telephone between Brooklyn and St Louis last •week cost the conversationalists more 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 done between the hours of 8 p. m. and 8 a. m. when the rate between Brooklyn and St Louis is $0 for the first five minutes and $1 a infanta for additional time.