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a messenger, a telegraph service

Most people wrote letters, but the telephone was also used as a means of communication, although few were installed in private homes. By 1900, there were approximately 140,000 telephones in use in the United States, many located in general stores or "phone stations"; access was limited, however, to those areas where the Bell Company and its independent competitors had run and maintained wire.

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