EXcalibur? EXcelsior? Only the operator knows for sure.
This Bell Telephone advertisement appears in the always rewarding and seemingly inexhaustible June 1938 issue of Popular Mechanics. From the same issue: Alkalize with Alka-Seltzer, "MONEY MAKING FORMULAS," and "Radios, it is."
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I've read several other telephone ads from that era that mentioned the very reasonable price for such wonderful telephone service. I wonder if they were trying to sweet-talk the public after a rate increase.
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