The ghost sign on 79th Street in South Shore advertises the services of “Carl J. Adams, Undertaker.” That occupation, which is now known by the less morbid term “funeral director,” is not the only ...

Corpus Christi got its first telephone exchange in 1890, at the same time it got its first electric light poles. The Corpus Christi Electric Light Co., owned by Dr. A.G. Heaney, T.P. Rivera and John ...

THE object of the automatic telephone exchange is to dispense with the assistance of a third party in making connection between two subscribers. Those whp are at all familiar with the complexity of ...