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Monthly

FEBRUARY, 1916

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FOUNDED 1868 BY F. BRET HARTE

10 CENTS PER COPY

$1.20 PER YEAR

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The Picked Army of the Telephone

The whole telephone-using public is interested in the army of telephone employees-what kind of people are they, how are they selected and trained, how are they housed and equipped, and are they well paid and loyal.

Ten billion messages a year are handled by the organization of the Bell System, and the task is entrusted to an army of 160,000 loyal men and

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thorough and the worker must be specially fitted for his position.

Workrooms are healthful and attractive, every possible mechanical device being provided to promote efficiency, speed and comfort.

Good wages, an opportunity for advancement and prompt recognition of merit are the rule throughout the Bell System.

An ample reserve fund is set aside for pensions, accident and sick benefits and insurance for employees, both men and women. "Few if any industries," reports the Department of Commerce and Labor, "present so much or such widely distributed, intelligent care for the health and welfare of their women workers as is found among the telephone companies.'

These are some of the reasons why Bell telephone service is the best in the world.

AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

One Policy

One System

Universal Service

The Victor Talking Machine Company

announces an important discovery

The Victor Tungs-tone Stylus

An improved, semi-permanent, changeable, reproducing
stylus of tungsten combining all the desirable features
of the Victor system of changeable needles with
the added advantage of playing 50 to 200

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records without changing.

After searching the earth for
better stylus material, a Victor
expert discovered the miracu-
lous reproducing and wearing
qualities of tungsten.
The
Tungs-tone Stylus will play
from fifty to two hundred
records or even more.
life of the Tungs-tone Stylus
depends on the character and
volume of the records played.

The

YOU DON'T HAVE TO CHANGE THE TUNGS-TONE STYLUS until it wears out. When this takes place the stylus simply stops reproducing as a signal for a new one. There is no danger of spoiling the record, because, strange to say, tungsten is softer than the record, although its wearing quality is one to two hundred per cent. better than the hardest steel. We cannot explain why-it is one of nature's secrets-a phenomenon. We only know it is true and recommend the Tungs-tone Stylus to all Victor users.

NO NEEDLES TO CHANGE is the chief nostrum of manufacturers of machines operated with a permanent jewel point, but the Victor Company knows what others will learn

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in time, namely: that no permanent
point can be made to last forever on
hard disc records. The jewel stylus
was a success on the old wax cylinder
records, but jewels do wear rough in
time, and, if not instantly detected and
changed, will quickly spoil a valuable
collection of records-a most insidious
danger; hence the Victor Steel Needle,
to be used but once, was the only
practical needle for the new gramo-
phone type of hard record until the
discovery of the miraculous properties
of tungsten for reproducing styli.

Full

Tone

Soft

TUNGS-TONE is a trade-name and was coined for the occasion. The new Tungs-tone Stylus is made in SOFT TONE AS WELL AS IN FULL TONE and can be changed instantly, just the same as a steel needle. The virtue of the Tungs-tone Stylus lies in a small cylinder of tungsten projecting from the end of a steel holder in which it is rigidly set.

The tiny cylinders of tungsten reproduce Victor Records better than any other known material. Smooth, strong and full as to tone. The Victor Tungs-tone Stylus fits all Victor sound boxes.

Manufactured
exclusively by

Victor Talking Machine
Company, Camden, N. J.

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Important warning. Victor Records can be safely and satisfactorily played only with
Victor Needles or Tungs-tone Stylus on Victors or Victrolas. Victor Records
cannot be safely played on machines with jeweled or other reproducing points.

New Victor Records demonstrated at all dealers on the 28th of each month

Vol. LXVII

OVERLAND

No. 2

MONTHLY

An Illustrated Magazine of the West

AND HIS

CAVES

CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1916

ON FICKLE HILL.

Verse

VIRGINIA CLEAVER BACON

FRONTISPIECE. Passing an Old-Time Indian Village in Arizona
CROSSING THE PLAINS IN A 1915 MODEL

PRAIRIE SCHOONER

Illustrated from photographs.

THE SACRED WOODS. Verse

Illustrated.

MODERN TREATIES OF PEACE

THE CALIFORNIA CABALLERO

CABALLO

Illustrated from photographs.

UNSTAYED. Verse

THE GRAND CANYON AND ITS WONDERFUL

ROMANY SONG. Verse

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NOTICE.-Contributions to the Overland Monthly should be typewritten, accompanied by full return postage and with the author's name and address plainly written in upper corner of first

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The publisher of the Overland Monthly will not be responsible for the preservation of unsoHcited contributions and photographs.

Issued Monthly. $1.20 per year in advance. Ten cents per copy
Copyrighted, 1914, by the Overland Monthly Company.

Entered at the San Francisco, Cal., Postoffice as second-class mail matter. Published by the OVERLAND MONTHLY COMPANY, San Francisco, California. 21 SUTTER STREET.

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