The Girl-less, cuss-less telephone / Mary Rowland -- The County's nineteen telephone companies / Larry Jochims -- Rev. Sheldon's address via long distance -- The Hello girls / Peggy Greene -- After the consolidation -- Charles S. Gleed and the Bell system / Terry H. Harmon -- When phones were automated / John W. Ripley -- Topeka's first telephone subscribers--1879 -- Topeka's first telephone directory--1885 -- Chronology, Topeka's telephone systems -- A Century of newspaper publishing / A.J. Carruth, Jr. editor -- A Different type of air mail / T.L. Kiene -- Postmasters of Topeka / Evelyn W. Kingman -- Ghost town post offices -- Some postal firsts -- WIBW--Topeka's first radio station / John W. Ripley -- Telegraphy's rise and fall / William E. Treadway -- Blow-by-blow telegraph / Arthur J. Carruth, Jr. -- A Voice from the air -- The Phonograph concert.