Word: telegraphe
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...Telegraph and telephone...
...tumultuous scenes such as only Italian enthusiasts can supply, Arrigo Boito's Nerone was last week performed at the Scala. Toscanini conducted; the important singers were Aureliano Fertile, Rosa Raisa, Marcel Journet. Seats cost from 100 to 800 lire each. News of the opera was flashed by telegraph to Mussolini...
...Major Gen. George O. Squier, former chief Signal Officer, U.S. Army, reporting the results of recent experiments in ocean cable work, stated that a universal automatic telegraph transmitter, applicable to radio, land lines and submarine cables, has been tested on artificial cables in the laboratory. The electron vacuum tube is facilitating the new development; an undreamed-of degree of cable efficiency will be possible by amplification of received cable signals. Cable and radio telegraphy each have their natural sphere of utility and are not essentially in conflict...
...subjects, except paupers, insane, etc. According to reports emanating from a British source, Japan is now seeking oil in Persia. This statement was founded upon the fact that Japanese commercial agents are there for the first time in the past 50 years. Said the diplomatic correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, London journal: "It may be that the 'difficulties which have arisen over the North Persian oil concessions, originally promised to the Sinclair syndicate, will eventually prove to Japan's advantage." The Peruvian Consul at Kobe was attacked by a would-be assassin, who mistook him for an American...
...squash racquet tournaments at the Racquet and Tennis Club, Manhattan. But custom yielded last week to surprise. A man, 50 years old, won the tournament. Not for 19 years had he held the club championship. His name is Clarence Hungerford Mackay. His job is President of the Postal Telegraph and Commercial Cable Company...