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Antiques, Appliances, Local History

A few of us here at Paper Shop were pretty excited about being plunged into antiquity last night – 1922, to be exact. If you’re a fan of PBS’s Downton Abbey, you’re in good company; a number of us in this office tune in every Sunday night. One of the rather interesting themes going into…

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… and a pretty significant one at that! On March 7, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell was granted U.S. patent #174,465 for a new invention: the telephone. Three days later, on March 10, he made the first clear transmission of spoken words using the new device. When Bell died on August 4, 1922, all U.S. &…