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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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s.Every step of the call is performed,from looking up the telephone numberand writing it down, waiting for thedial tone or the operators Number,please? as the case may be, dialingor giving the number to the operator,through the telephone conversationitself to the friendly goodbye andquiet replacement of the instrument. 58 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING Teachers devise many ingeniousways to impress on tlie children theimportance of the telephone and itsproper use. Attending a classroomsession on Telezonia, as telephonepeople often do, is likely to be afascinating experience. First to strike the eye are posterswhich the children have drawn andpinned on the walls. Usually donewith crayons, their gaudy colors andoriginality defy description. In one,telephone instruments dance weirdlyaround what seems at first to be aMaypole but which on further inspec-tion appears to sprout insulator-studded crossarms, down which line-men are sliding cheerfully on theirbacks. In another, the march of time
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The elements of the Telezonia package is portrayed by a smoke signal in thebackground under a carrier pigeonsbaleful eye. But from behind thismerry facade, the evidence shinesthrough that the young Van Goghshave learned their lessons on tele-phone courtesy, cooperation, andgood usage. The alert attention of the young-sters to the Telezonia film itself, andtheir rapt interest in the teacherscarefully organized review with thefilmstrip, are highly impressive. And the discussion of the good-usage booklet, with its enthusiasticparticipants practicing their learning,will warm the hearts of telephonemen and women. Here are some of the various class-room uses to which teachers haveadapted the Telezonia material: Language and Focabulary Writing letters, stories, poems and songsabout using the telephone.Spelling and use of such words as partyline, dial tone, mouthpiece, receiver, sig-nal, number plate, switchboard, operator,directory, emergency. Alphabetizing: Looking up names in the telephone

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