Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Telegraph Agency...
...President of the U. S. and the President of Mexico exchanged tactful felicitations over a new unbroken circuit between New York and Mexico City recently completed by the Western Union Telegraph...
...that period. The company is made a "public utility," hence freed from all taxes; Panama is to provide sanitary and police protection at the company's expense (much of the area has never even been explored); the company has permission to use streams for water power, to install telegraph, telephone and railway lines, build roads, aqueducts and power lines; the company must in turn undertake certain public improvements- building roads, bridges, harbors, etc.; the company will further pay the government as royalty 2% of the gross profits; any dispute arising between the concessionaire and Panama is to be settled...
When Theodore Newton Vail, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., died in 1920, his associates started a fund to give awards to employes who had distinguished themselves by "conspicuous public service." Last week the Vail Medals were given for 1925-five in all, three to women. And so the public heard how Mrs. Josephine L. August, night operator at Cassopolis, Mich., frustrated an attempt to rob the First National Bank; how Miss Ruby LaVerne Wilson, at Washington, Ark., tried to stop some bandits; why Emory Daniel Stine, lineman, waded into an icy stream at York, Pa.; what Repairer...
...Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour, Cream of Wheat, Fleischmann's Yeast, O'Sullivan's Heels, Ed. Pinaud, Royal Baking Powder, Sun-Maid Raisins, Swift & Co., Sloan's Liniment, Welch's Grape Juice) ; N. W. Ayer & Son (which handles such accounts as American Telephone and Telegraph, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Hire's Root Beer, International Silver Co., National Cash Register, Reynolds Tobacco, Squibb, Steinway Pianos, Victor Talking Machines) ; F. Wallis Armstrong Co. (which has Campbell's soup, Fels-Naphtha soap, Whitman's candies) ; George Batten Co. (which has Cliquot Club Ginger Ale, Colgate...