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Telephone Services. The first British telephone schange was opened in 1879 in London by The elephone Company, Ltd., but in 1880 the high >urt ruled that private telephone services were i infringement on the post office's monopoly ?hts in telegraph. However, it was decided grant private developers licenses that would pire at the end of 1911.
The post office's first telephone exchange as opened in 1881 at Swansea.Posting letters from America to Europe costs, by sea, 8 cents an ounce,] since the last raise, and a post card is 4 cents. Air mail is, so far, the same' as it has long been, 15 cents a half ounce (post card now 10 cents), but the Post Office Department's stamped airletter, at 10 cents, will go "anywhere in the world," if nothing is enclosed.
The state government was modernized by the creation of the Department of Administration (1951), Rhode Island Development Council (1951), Board of Education (1951), and Workmen's Compensation Commission (1954). In 1960 the Providence post office, the first fully mechanized post office in the nation, was dedicated. The Rhode Island Family Court held its first session in 1961. Governor John H. Cha-fee (Republican), who had served three successive terms, was defeated by Democrat Frank Licht in the 1968 election.
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