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Page and Co., E. P. Button and Co., Everybody's Magazine, 

 Ford Motor Co., Ginn and Co., Harper and Brothers, The 

 Norman W. Henley Publishing Co., George W. Jacobs 

 and Co., J. B. Lippincott Co., A. C. McClurg and Co., 

 Frederick A. Stokes Co., Whitcomb, and Banams. The 

 illustration of the first telephone is taken, with Mr. Casson's 

 permission, from his book, " History of the Telephone." 



G. H. T. 

 MANKATO, MINN. 



