Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

Today in 1900 a newspaper in Ohio ran a story about how three towns in Indiana had used fence wire as makeshift telephone lines, at a time when phones were more often found in cities. Some of these ingenious systems ran for decades. Plus: in Kansas City, the City of Fountains, it's Fountain Day.   Barb-Wire telephone line (Insulators.info)  Barbed Wire Telephone Lines Connected The Old Frontier (Successful Farming podcast)  Everything You Need To Know About Fountains In Kansas City (VisitKC)  Reach out and touch someone (figuratively speaking) as a backer on Patreon --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/support