New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-03
LOOK FOR QUALITY NOT PRICE.
Cheap Articles are Most Expensive
III the End,
Buy instruments That Have Been
Tried for Years.
Large User Of Phones Writes Let.
ter of Recommendation.

As mas been stated in this paper be
lore the success OF telephone depends
IN great degree upon the aualit,
and manufacture of instruments usef
IN It's equipment. No system, however
small can afford to jeepardize the
ef11clency OF such an important factor
III rural economy as the telephone by
adopting a class of goods not stand.
ard because of the fact that thew NAV
be had for few cents less money.
instead OF buying the cheapest buy
the one which has been in successful
use a number OF years. Ask the
question: GLOW long have they been
manufactured? What success has at
tended the use of your instrument?
Is your company responsible? What
guarantee do you give? Who can
recommend you?" These things
should have precedence of the cues
ton as to price.
The Review takes pleasure in recon-
mendlng the goods which the Swedish
American Telephone Co. of Chicago
put out and suggests that those who are
Interested in the establishment of rura /
lines write to the company for particu-
lars and reference as to the reliability
of the house.
Ihey have some pamphlets on the
question of telephones that should he
IN the hands of every person who has
telephone in the house and more
especially should those who are inter-
ested in the starting of rural lines
have their book on rural telephones.
The following description of their
Flve-Bar Generator shows how
thoroughly reliable the products Of
the house are:
Hercules five bar 10O,O 200 ohm gener-
ator used in all of our Hercules
Bridging Telephones. Armatures
wound with best silk insulated mag
net wire. Imported Swedish magnet
lamlnated armatures of soft Norway
iron accurately fitted on steel shaft
Heavy cast fields of soft grey iron.
Special wide-faced gear wheels.
Automatic shunts with contact sprinos
OF best German silver. Accurately
fitted parts render the output of this
generator sufficient for the heaviest
loaded lines, will ring all the bells on
your line loud and clear. Each mag
net is enclosed in nickel-plated brass
shield, making better finish and
contining to degree the lines of mag
netic force.
VIM. Terry of Lockwood. Mo-,
writes to the Swedish-American people
as follows:
[ have been using the Swedish
American telephones for four years
and at the present time [ have a
rural system with about one hundred
miles of wire, some 80 Or 100 instru
ments installed, installed with three
Central offices, all Swedish-American
phones except five or six. You can
hear a watch from my Office over q
miles of wire, through three switch
boards and nine phones on the line
where [ have all Swedish-American
phones. [ recommend them above all
others.
The Piper City Tel. Co. of Piper
City, Ill. writes:
Your letter was received TODAY and |
in reply will say that we are
we'll pleased with your appara-
Jus. The generator is as good as anv
i've bar generator we have used and
.he new ringer is by far the most
evenly balanced and most compact we
lave ever seen. The transmitters and
are also all that could he
desired and we want none better. We
ian say that on our farmer lines no
telephone has given the satisfaction
hat has the Swedish-American five
oar bridging telephone.