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WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

October 27, 1905

 

TELEPHONE IMPROVEMENTS

 

            The Citizen’s Telephone Exchange has completed their new improvements, and Manager Slater is happy to announce the installation of a new central energy switch board.  The old style board having been taken out and shipped to Chicago.  The power to operate the signal lamps for the calls and furnish electric energy is supplied by storage batteries which are kept charged by a half horse power motor and generator.  The new switch board has a capacity for 500 phones.  The lines are placed in cables enclosed in leaden tubes and enter the building under ground.  A new lightning protector and distributing board has been installed, the latter enabling a person to retain their original number, even though they remove to another part of the city, except on party liens.  Hardwood floors and other improvements are being added to the station.  Herman Betts of Delavan has had charge of the new work, which improvements have cost nearly $5000.