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BAY SPRINGS -- In this age of constant electronic and telecommunications innovations that sometime seem to reach businesses and consumers almost before they're comfortable with the last innovation, it's easy to forget that there are still people living who remember when the telecommunications innovation of the time was ... the telephone.
Not the simple push-button phone. Not even the simpler rotary dial phone. The hot telecommunications item across America in the 1920s was a telephone that you had to crank up, wait for an operator's response, then wait while she connected you with your number.
In the little town of Bay Springs (in Jasper County) in 1923, if you needed a number late at night, Estelle Fail would get out of bed, walk across the bedroom to a magneto switchboard and ask, "Number, please?" She'd pull a cord with a plug from the...
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