Each Monday's edition of the Marshall News Messenger, includes the front page of the same date, 1899 issue. I thought you'd get a kick out of one little ad that appeared September 27, 1899. How Do You Do - Without a Telephone? It is the great timesaver of the age, and so inexpensive that nobody can afford to be without one. If you had a telephone in your office or home, you would save much mental and physical effort and no end of time and annoyance. SOUTHWESTERN TELEGRAPH and TELEPHONE COMPANY What would be the 'great timesaver' of today? A computer? A cell phone? Caller ID? Answering machine? Oh, how far we've come... Gail