Thursday, May 1, 2008

Holds Church Over 'Phone

1920

Dakota Preacher Sends Gospel Twelve Miles Away.

DEVILS LAKE, North Dakota. — The Rev. P. H. Case of the Presbyterian Church here has perfected his "preach by phone" system, until any one on the circuit within a radius of twelve miles can take down the receiver and find himself at church.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 2.

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