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Number Please

A man named Charles Williams, Jr. had the honor of having the first phone number in the United States. (It was 1, of course. Mr. Williams produced telephone equipment for Alexander Graham Bell, so he played guinea pig. (He also, by the way, had the second phone number—2–for his shop.) You can read theContinue reading “Number Please”

Mockbeth

I was thinking of writing a column in this space about the use or misuse of Shakespearean lines on postcards, back in the day when Shakespeare mattered a whole lot more to the individual citizen of these United States. I may still do that, but in doing my research, I ran into a separateContinue reading “Mockbeth”