Rural phone use instructions from a 1919 phone book.
Did any of you grow up with a "party lines" phone? This is back when phone lines were rented and shared with your neighbors. (Notice they are still referring to them as 'phones with the prevailing apostrophe.) I lived in a small town and did not share a line, but all of my family out in the rural areas did and I remember some of this stuff. Hard to believe it was less than 100 years from this to a smart phone.
