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FROM THE ARCHIVESep 21, 1904·Walla Walla, Washington

TRANSMITTING HUMAN FACES BY ELECTRICITY

Scanned from The Evening Statesman, Sep 21, 1904
TRANSMITTING HUMAN FACES BY ELECTRICITY
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NUMBER SIX GUARDS WELL HIS SECRET FOWLER KEEPS HIS VISION BOX AWAY FROM THE PRYING PUBLIC Has Discovered the Way to Transmit Lines of Human Face by Electricity Guarded like captive in the realms of the Turk J B Fowler keeps his vision box away from the prying eyes of those who ought steal his se cret from mm and ioh him of the dis tinction of hiving been the man who first discovered the way to transmit the lines of the human face along the cold wires of a telephone wreathe them 10 the aid of the mystic powers electric it into their natural posi olS md c ng them out in all their glowing colors and peculiar curves on the little lens before the eyes of the wondering and incredulous public. Mr Fowler is not unreasonable he js sim ply cautious. It l s all so simple that strange invention of his that a short investigation would make it plain to any practiced eye and betray its se cret to the world Therefore his friends are allowed to look at the out side of the magic box but not into the holp of holies that little space where.

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