File:IllinoisTelephoneAndTelegraphAd.png

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Advertisement for dial telephone service available to delegates to the Republican convention in Chicago. Big letters emphasize the text: "The ONE Phone That Gives SECRET SERVICE".

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English: Advertisement for the automatic (dial) telephone service of the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph Company (successor to the en:Illinois Tunnel Company).

(in bold underlined black text. "During" is colored blue)

 _Use_ _the_ _Automatic_
 *_During_* _the_ _Convention_

(a highly detailed drawing in blue of the subject of the advertisement, a very old phone from the corporation Automatic Telephone Service, takes up the bottom-left third of the image. the bottom-right third contains varying sizes of black text)

Make the Automatic Tele- phone Station at the Coliseum your headquarters. A recep- tion room, booths and uni- formed pages at your service on the main floor of the Annex.

Let us facilitate your work —and let us demonstrate to you the wonderful efficiency of the Automatic telephone—

 The ONE Phone
 That Gives
 SECRET SERVICE

Automatic Telephone Service is pulling the biggest popular vote in history! Local Chicago traffic has more than doubled, and long distance increased 80%7, since January 1, 1912.

Because of its very low cost, its instantaneous connections, its sccrecy, its splendid carrying powers, the Automatic is the only logical telephone. By all means take advantage of this special convention

Local Calls 5¢

Long distance calls at remarkably low rates

Illinois Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Successor to Illinois Tunnel Co. Telephone Department

162 W. Monroe St.

Commercial Dept.

33-111

Information 892

Long Distance Call (O)

on the Dial
Date
Source Hameltonian and Republican National Convention Program, June 18, 1912; page
Author unknown, employed by the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph Co.
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