Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Mrs. Marie Hungerford Mackay, 85, "the untitled Duchess," relict of John W. Mackay (Croesus of mines & cables), mother of Clarence H. Mackay (president of Postal Telegraph Co.); of heart disease in Roslyn, L. I., N. W. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., the daughter of Civil and Mexican war veteran Col. Daniel C. Hungerford and his onetime Parisian wife, it was she who in the early '60s braved a squalid, vulgar Nevada mining town with her first husband, one Dr. Bryant. After his death she kept a boarding house in the mining camps. To her table came John...
Sued for Divorce. Henry A. Bishop Jr., son of Henry Alfred Bishop (railroad, bank & telegraph tycoon) of Bridgeport, Conn.; by Mrs. Gloria Gould Bishop, daughter of the late George Jay Gould. She was married in 1923, aged 17, and has at various times since conducted a dance studio in Manhattan, made public appearances as hostess-manageress of the Embassy cinemahouse on Broadway...
...Greeks voted. But Athens reported a curious fever which was taking a daily toll of some 40 lives in the city. Telephone and telegraph communications were crippled because the personnel also was stricken...
...immigration authorities that he had overstayed his leave, and Versatile Gough went to Canada. Quebec offered him nothing but the position of dishwasher at the famed Chateau Frontenac. Here a wartime subordinate arriving on the cruiser Australia discovered him, exposed his situation in a letter to the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. The determined, zestful officer is now forcibly in the limelight, receiving belated offers of worthy employment. Mrs. Gough and two children have lived in Nova Scotia while General Gough tried gallantly to provide...
Along many a U.S. highway run parallel telephone and telegraph wires. Last week it appeared probable that future U. S. highways will have but one line of posts and wires. Reason: President Walter Sherman Gifford of A. T. & T. announced the signing of important nonexclusive contracts with Western Union. Telegrams may now be sent over long-distance telephone wires. Also at the service of Western Union for transmission of facsimile messages, is A. T. & T.'s telephoto system. To many, these contracts presaged the gradual scrapping of the Western Union plant and ever-increasing reliance on the service...