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"Number Please" The Davis Telephone Company - Rural Communication History
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"Number Please"The Story of the Davis telephone Company
1 of 60 		The job of the early operators was long and boring because of low number of telephones.
2 of 60 		Telephone school in Montreal to train maintenance personnel sponsored by Bell.
3 of 60 		An early line crew working on telephone lines.
4 of 60 		Executive of Independent Telephone Association
5 of 60 		Annual convention of The Independent Telephone Association
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Sheldon Davis with his class at telephone school
7 of 60 		The Davis Telephone Company magneto switchboard in Eganville
8 of 60 		Davis Telephone operator Maude Green on switchboard and Alice Fournier in background
9 of 60 		Christmas card given to Davis family by operators
10 of 60 		Jeanette Hunt Eganville switchboard operator at work
11 of 60 		Eganville common battery office with operators working the switchboard
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Telephone operators working the switchboard in Eganville office of the Davis Telephone Company
13 of 60 		A group of telephone operators with the Davis family in Eganville
14 of 60 		This building was built to house the switchboards and is now a jewelry store
15 of 60 		Common battery telephone office in Eganville, Ontario
16 of 60 		Gathering to celebrate cut over to dial at Rankin Office
17 of 60 		Opened September 1st 1952 Foymount was part of the Pine Tree Line air radar base defence of Canada
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