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Show INFORMATION BUREAU THERE WITH GOODS The Information operator of the Independent In-dependent Telephone company answered an-swered an unusual question last night, that taxed her Ingenuity to answer correctly. cor-rectly. v ' A subscriber to the telephone service wanted to correctly quote a few lines from Pope's "Essay on Man." He remembered re-membered the first line of the quotation, quota-tion, but he could not recall the rest. He racked his brain for the other three lines, but he was unable to recall them, though he had learned them In school. It was necessary for him to get the selection se-lection complete to conclude an article on which he was working.' He could not recall the name of the author nor the name of the. poem from which the quotation was taken. In despair he called on the Information Informa-tion bureau of the telephone company for the desired Information. "Information" "Informa-tion" did not know, but she said she would call him up later and tell him all about it. An hour later the bell rang, and he answered. Miss Information quoted the lines correctly, giving him the punctuation, and also the name of the author, the year In which the poem was written, and the numbers of the lines in the poem, which, were quoted. The Information operator was asked where she secured the information. "I called up every one In town whom I thought might know," she said, "but I could not find any one who had the desired Information. Then I communicated communi-cated with the toll operator, and she connected me with the Ogden exchange. I told Ogden my trouble. The Information Informa-tion operator there connected with the Carnegie library, and got It. That's all right; thank you. You are quite welcome. wel-come. That's what we are here for." |