SHOP STENTORPHONE.
A LONDON INNOVATION. Women shopping at Barker’s store in Kensington. London, recently, were' astonished io hear a clear voice, speaking apparently from nowhere, which gave a useful budget of store news. “Hullo, hullo, huli]O-” it said. “To-day’s best bargain is the toffee we arc selling at Is 8d a pound. It is the kind we usually sell at 2s. To-morrow’s bargain will bp the best Bath chaps at 9Ad a pound. The next, concert in the Terrace tea room begins at 4.30.” Inside a little office an operator was speaking in his ordinary conversational tones into the receiver of a telephonic apparatus, which transmitted the sound, enormously magnified, to all parts of the ground floor departments. Barker’s is the first shop to use this apparatus, and the experiment proved so successful ’hat the invention is being installed 1 hrough or t every denartmdnt of the establiahmeiU,
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Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1922, Page 11
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148SHOP STENTORPHONE. Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1922, Page 11
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