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When Ephraim Crosby made a clearing far out on Valley Road and built his house, he had no neighbors. He lived an independent life, producing on the farm practically all that his family ate and wore. Emergencies-sickness and fire and protection of his homestead from prowlers he met for himself. Later he had neighbors, one five and another eight miles away. Sometimes he helped them with their planting and harvesting. and they helped him in turn. Produce was marketed in the town, twenty miles along the cart-road.

Today Ephraim Crosby's grandchildren still live in the homestead, farming its many acres. The next house is a good mile away. But the Crosbys of today are not isolated. They neighbor

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with a nation. They buy and sell in the
far city as well as in the county-seat.
They have at their call the assistance and
services of men in Chicago or New York,
as well as men on the next farm.

Stretching from the Crosbys' farm
living-room are telephone wires that lead
to every part of the nation. Though
they live in the distant countryside, the
Crosbys enjoy the benefits of national
telephone service as wholly as does the
city dweller. The plan and organization
of the Bell System has extended the facili-
ties of the telephone to all types of
people. By producing a telephone ser-
vice superior to any in the world at a
cost within the reach of all to pay, the
Bell System has made America a nation
of neighbors.

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