America's Network, originally entitled Telephone Engineer, was launched in Chicago in 1909. The publication listed its telephone number as "Harrison 3014." Single copies were 20 cents. An annual subscription was $2.00.

It was an exciting time for the industry. Long-distance telephone service extended westward all the way to Denver. Wireless telephony had achieved transmission distances of several hundred miles. The telephone industry, as the magazine noted, had "developed into a condition very similar to other commercial industries, and it promises to continue securely on this basis indefinitely into the future."

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