PAPAL STATE: Telephones, Radio

A recent present to Pope Pius XI from potent International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. was a complete telephone system for the new Papal State.

At the Vatican last week papal dignitaries claimed that with 800 telephones and 500 citizens the Papal State now has more telephones per capita than any other nation. In His Holiness' private study, they announced, electricians will soon set up a solid gold telephone of more than usual size, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, emblazoned with the papal arms on a great gold...

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