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Show TELEPHONES TO BE INSTALLED Nearly all the great in entions barring bar-ring the mysterious ones of ESdlson simplify tiie problems of life by means so eisaple lhat everyone wonders why lie did hot hit upon the device, r'or sample, a great fortune was made by (he invention of a machine which makes wood screws with points upon tiicni Nowadays anyone who sees an old -fashioned wood screw, as large at ,v- end Ss ai lhe other, for which a hole bad to be bored with a bit. wonders won-ders why the first man who thought ni a wood screw did not tbtal. of threading it to a point. According to the Auto New.-, telephones tele-phones are to be Installed upon the public roads hi Ohio for lhe conven-' lance of travelers. Th. plan is to put up small iiooth? at each milestone. The motorist who ii- stranded always I will find himself within half a mile of 'a telephone. The plan provides so simply for tin solution of one of the vexing problems of road travel that H seemed It should have been prepared a dozen years ago. The toad telephone would be an institution insti-tution so obviously necessarj that it J would rate wilb lhe screw point as something which should have been m stltuteil before it was InSUtUtt ( The Custom of the last decade of the nineteenth century to hunt up t.be nearest farmer who irould, for time rand a half or more, provide a pair of i mules to low a stranded autoaiobllBi is obsolete in the twentteth Century; There is always towing service as well ias tire service wjthfn liail li onlj i telephone can be had. oo |