Bowman Gets Other People's Telegraph, Telephone Calls, Dec. 14, 1920

Mr. R.L. Bowman, who installed a wireless telegraphy receiving apparatus several years ago, recently put in new and more sensitive instruments and now not only receives telegraphy but also telephone messages, says the Wadesboro Messenger and Intelligencer. Almost every night he hears parties far out at sea sending telephone messages, and he can hear them distinctly. He says there is one man whom he recognizes by his voice who talks frequently. This man is first on one ship and then on another, but his voice is very recognizable. The other night Mr. Bowman heard a conversation between a young lady in Boston and a man on a boat which was just at the time rounding Cape Cod. A few nights ago Mr. Bowman heard noises of a party on the steamship Montgomery, bound from New York to Savannah. He could hear the phonograph playing and the sounds of dancing, etc. Telephone and telegraph messages are received through the same instruments, and both may be heard at the same time. (From the front page of The Monroe Journal, Dec. 14, 1920)