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But not so. Tilings happen. Unexpected things. “There is just no telling what you may run into in this business,” grinned John R. Brown local telephone manager.
According to Brown, a resident of Madison for 20 years, the installation representatives and the pole men, the chaps you see daily clinging to the wooden spires, and the engineers, have to know as much about public relations as they do telephones.
“They have to meet the public” he said “and the darnest things happen when they do.” Take the case of the poor engineer who drove up to a farmhouse in the county to check a right-of-way permit. Actually he was doing alright until he happened to go through the flower garden in the fear of the house, and what a mistake it was! “It so happened that a young lady was taking a sun bath in her garden. They saw each other at
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