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December 16, 2004

Posted by Tom Farley & Mark van der Hoek at 04:03 PM

Louisiana town awaits telephone age

By Ralph Blumenthal

The New York Times (All rights reserved)

"MINK, La.--It's no secret what the 15 householders in this tiny settlement want for Christmas: the same thing they have always wanted year round--telephones."

"Not bag phones, the primitive portable stopgap often carried around in a canvas case, which send residents out in their pickups searching for service 'hot spots,' but real telephones wired to a land line."

"Alexander Graham Bell's invention of 1876 never reached Mink, a onetime trappers' paradise in the Kisatchie National Forest in west-central Louisiana, although neighbors just down the road on Highways 117 and 118 were wired for telephones in the 1970s." [continues here --->, external link], was http://news.com.com/Louisiana+town+awaits+telephone+age/2100-1037_3-5488277.html

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