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Brother Buzz

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6. We had a barbed wire system, a private system that serviced the rural areas with a switchboard at the drug store
Reply to erronis (Original post)
Sun Feb 15, 2026, 09:22 PM
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Horribly unreliable in rainy weather, and the farmers rejoiced when Pacific Bell finally strung lines to them.

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