Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1901 — Her First Use of the Telephone. [ARTICLE]

Her First Use of the Telephone.

“Marla,” said a business man residing in the suburbs to his wife, “you have been wanting a telephone in the house for a long time. The workmen will cbme and put one In to-day. Call me up after they have gone away to see if it works all right.” Late hi the afternoon there was a call at the telephone In Ills office dbwn town. Putting the receiver to his ear he recognized the voice of his wife, pitched in a somewhat high key. “Is that you, James?" she asked. “Yes.” “Will you please go out right now and mail that letter I gave you this morning?” He had forgotten it, of course, and he obeyed.