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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 115 		Map of the Province of Ontario
2 of 115 		Joseph Davis founder of the Davis telephone Company
3 of 115 		M. Leslie Davis President of the Davis Telephone Company
4 of 115 		Sheldon L. Davis Sr. Vice President of the Davis Telephone Company
5 of 115 		Leslie, Hazel, Sheldon (son) and Dawnalda (daughter) - Davis Telephone Company Owners 1920 - 1961
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Chanonhouse Drug Store building left of clocktower - Housed the first swithchboard in Eganville, ON
7 of 115 		Eganville streetscape
8 of 115 		Close up view of Shannonhouse and first Davis Telephone Switchboard office.
9 of 115 		The job of the early operators was long and boring because of low number of telephones.
10 of 115 		Telephone school in Montreal to train maintenance personnel sponsored by Bell.
11 of 115 		An early line crew working on telephone lines.
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Telephone school to train telephone people
13 of 115 		Executive of Independent Telephone Association
14 of 115 		Annual convention of The Independent Telephone Association
15 of 115 		Sheldon Davis with his class at telephone school
16 of 115 		The Davis Telephone Company magneto switchboard in Eganville
17 of 115 		Davis Telephone operator Maude Green on switchboard and Alice Fournier in background
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