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The Appeal
Saint Paul, Minnesota
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In a Berlin trial, Dr. Strauch testified that telephone frustration from 'central' can cause insanity, citing a doctor's case. Dr. Paechter claimed evidence of government telephone girls using an exchange to connect and amuse themselves with subscribers of the same name.
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German Alienist Says "Central" Drives Men to Madness.
Berlin.—Remarkable evidence as to the effect of the telephone upon the minds of people using it was given in a trial here. Dr. Strauch, a commissioner in lunacy, said that even phlegmatic men might have their mental balance upset by exasperation at getting no reply from "central." He mentioned the case of one of his own patients, a well known doctor, who became completely insane through telephone exasperation.
Dr. Paechter, another witness, asserted that he could bring evidence to show that government telephone girls had been permitted by the inspectors to utilize one of the big exchanges for the reception of their fiances. One amusement of the girls of this exchange was to look up all subscribers having the same name, to connect all of them, ring them all up and laugh loudly at the result.
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one well-known doctor became completely insane through telephone exasperation.
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In a trial in Berlin, Dr. Strauch, a commissioner in lunacy, testified that exasperation at getting no reply from 'central' can upset mental balance, even in phlegmatic men, and cited a patient doctor who went insane from it. Dr. Paechter testified about government telephone girls using an exchange to connect and ring up multiple subscribers with the same name for amusement.