Word: telegraphe
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...this season than by their failure to beat the Athletics in the last world series. In Shibe Park in Philadelphia?home of Connie Mack's Athletics, who had been sure of the American League pennant for many weeks?electricians were getting ready for the world series by installing the telegraph master- switchboard that was used in the Hall-Mills murder trial (TIME...
Teletype of A. T. & T. Many is the firm which eventually buys its largest customer, or is bought itself by its largest customer. Into the second classification fits the deal by which last week Teletype Corp. of Chicago passed into the American Telephone & Telegraph fold, will be operated as a subsidiary of Western Electric. Chicago Teletype manufactures printing telegraph equipment which transmits typewritten messages automatically and instantaneously between distant offices, enabling telegraph users to send their own "wires" directly, also to receive telegrams and messages from Teletype-equipped branch offices. (TIME uses such an instrument between editorial office in Manhattan...
...silence that has cloaked with impenetrable mystery the whereabouts of Dr. Hu Flung Huey, the CRIMSON'S poor-less prognosticator of sports scores, was partially broken last night, just as the paper was going to press, when a breathless telegraph boy arrived with the following dispatch, from Ardmore, Pennsylvania...
...Gasoline Telegraph. Postal Telegraph & Cable's 7,000 branch offices last week became 10,500. The new ones were filling stations of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Colonial Beacon Oil, Standard Oil of Indiana, Standard Oil of Pennsylvania, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil of Louisiana, Standard Oil of Ohio, Standard Oil of Nebraska, Utah Oil Refining Co. Under the terms of the agreement, the stations will display Postal signs, attendants will furnish blanks. They will carry the blanks out to motorists sitting in their cars at the pump, if desired, and immediately telephone their messages to the nearest...
...soon as this deal became known, Western Union reported that it was completing arrangements with Shell Eastern to install slot telephones in Shell's stations, enable customers to deal directly with the telegraph company. This contract involves 320 filling stations. Other Shell subsidiaries may soon raise the total to around 1,300. Negotiations are also reported between Western Union and Richfield, Sinclair, Cities Service. New England filling stations, not the telegraph companies, are supposed to have originated the telegram service idea, which follows closely on the now widespread policy of selling tires in gas stations...