Word: telegrapher
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...Brazil for running guns to the revolutionists; in '95 shipwrecked off South Africa; in '95 severely wounded on Jameson's raid from Mafeking into the Transvaal; the next year sole survivor, again severely wounded, of a surveying expedition for Cecil Rhodes's Capetown-to-Cairo telegraph line. Lyon fought in the Spanish-American War, served as a sergeant major through the Philippine Insurrection. Home from the wars, he prospected in the Klondike, worked on the Panama Canal, in 1915 settled down as a Connecticut power official. At 61 the old campaigner learned...
...mile Canadian Pacific Air Line, which blankets most of the Dominion with vital north-south routes, but is barred from the lucrative transcontinental service by the Government-owned Trans-Canada Air Lines, carried 71,000 passengers and 11.5 million Ib. of mail and cargo. Earnings from C.P.-owned telegraph and express services, hotels, grain-and ore-carrying ships on the Great Lakes, and grain elevators scattered across the prairies, were high...
Sheepherders in their covered wagons, without telephones, beyond telegraph service, get advance information on blizzards breaking fast over the bitter Montana ranch lands. Farmer Jones's wife can sleep at night when KFBB finally tells her that Farmer Jones is safe in town and not freezing on some snowy butte. Most of the rural schools have radios, and warnings like the following are a winter commonplace: "The teacher at the Pleasant Val ley school should not let the children start for home this afternoon because the roads are blocked," or "The children of Pleasant Valley school are safe. . . ." Tickets...
...London Daily Telegraph announced that 8,000 acres of Berlin buildings had been devastated. Allied airmen smiled at this and similar exaggerations, were proud enough of the truth...
This week newsmen in Istanbul reported that all telephone and telegraph connections with Bulgaria had been severed-but not soon enough to stop reports that the Bulgarian government had fallen. Still in power was the pro-German regency; but it was evident that pokes from Germany's enemies were telling...