Word: telegraphe
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Elizabeth Morrow, daughter of the U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, forgot her passport while traveling with Mrs. Morrow between London and Paris. Last-minute telephone and telegraph messages to the Paris Embassy and the French Foreign Office enabled them to continue their trip...
...Last fall I. T. & T. completed a deal with German General Electric whereby they would form a new company, Standard Elektrizitaets A. G., to hold stock in companies manufacturing telephone and telegraph apparatus. Just how they participated was not known until last week when it was revealed that I. T. & T. controls the new company with 62.9% of the voting and 55.4% of the non-voting stock against German General Electric's 31.1% and 39.3%. The remainder is owned by Felton & Guilleaume, affiliate...
...newspapers. The press, largest user of both Postal and Western Union wires, is accorded two cut-rate services: Day Press Rate (? full rate) and Night Press Rate (1/6 full rate). Although newspapers do not use telephones for long distance communication to the extent they use the telegraph, publishers feel they deserve a reduced tariff for certain services comparable...
Last week Publishers' Service, youngest press trade journal, gathered about itself the full dignity of its six weeks and editorialized: "Publishers' Service unqualifiedly assures the newspaper industry that it can make a comprehensive and intelligent presentation of its cases to the telephone company [American Telephone & Telegraph] with thorough hope of not only fair and open-minded consideration by the telephone companies [local subsidiaries] but also with every likelihood of action favorable to all newspapers and the nation at large...
...subject, "The Development of the Modern Submarine Telegraph Cable", is one upon which Professor Kennelly is regarded as an authority. Before he became the principal electrical assistant to Edison. Professor Kennelly was chief electrician of a cable repairing steamer and senior ship's electrician of the Eastern Telegraph Cable Company. He was the engineer in charge of laying the Vera Cruz-Frontera-Compeche cables for the Mexican government...