public telephone

And the chance seemed a slender, fantastical one, even if he could safely get to a public telephone.

He now walked back to a drug store on whose front he had seen the sign of a public telephone.

In the alcove made by the box-stairs stood the public telephone switch board and two booths.

Besides the Government and public telephone offices, nearly every large commercial house, and most private homes, have telephones.

When his cab drew up at the busy entrance on La Salle Street, he found his way to the nearest public telephone.