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Strowger and Purple Reign Redux

99% Invisible

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Almond Brown Stroger of Kansas City noticed that he wasn't getting as many calls from potential customers He got really suspicious when a friend of the family died and he wasn't even called about performing the funeral services. The story goes that after some poking around Stroger discovered that the wife of a rival undertaker in the area was an operator for the local telephone company. This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars We have a little different episode for you today we have two stories the first is an update to the purple hotel story that was episode number 58 reported by Gwen Maxi There have been some Significant changes since we reported that story So we wanted to update you on that but first

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