Word: telegrapher
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...giant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. had a gnat in its ear. Not much damage was being done, but it was annoying...
...Manhattan, Hill Prince over the field, in a Morning Telegraph poll of racing writers, to become "Horse of the Year...
...Telephone & telegraph industries...
Thomas A. Edison always had a warm spot in his heart for the Western Union Telegraph Co., because it gave him his start. As a young man, Edison was a Western Union telegrapher; later, the company bought his improved stock and commodity ticker for $40,000, which enabled Edison to set up as a full-time inventor...
...board. Fiftyish Mrs. Sloane has been active in charity, Republican politics and civic affairs, but has only a nodding acquaintance with business. (Her broker husband was a onetime governor and treasurer of the New York Security Dealers Association.) Nevertheless, she feels at home in the telegraph business. "I was brought up on it," she says. "I learned the Morse code when I was eight; my father taught it to me. When my brother Charles* and I had scarlet fever we rigged up a line from room to room...