Show an AD automatic toll taking device has been invested invented to be attached to telephones at public or pay stations the mechanism in the telephone box is so arranged that the telephone will not operate operate until a coin of a certain size and weight dropped into a slit in fron t acts upon a switch lever thereby making electrical connections between the transmitted transmit tei tex and the line wire the act of hanging banging the receiving telephone after use in the place provided for it drops the coin into a till and releases the lever switch thereby breaking the electrical connection and 11 selling the trap for the next user reports from southern wisconsin Wis coasin say wat the drought in that section suro surpasses asses anything formerly known in the history of the state the terrible blighting beat has literally baked the earth difed the bap asap from the trees grass and shrubs and substantially destroyed the growing crops the scarcity of water if much longer continued will make the land a desert in very many parts of the country the wells have dried up altogether the springs and streams have disappeared and the cattle are suffering terribly unless the people eople soon have rain there is likely to ge be an exodus from that part of the country |