Word: telegrapher
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...Telegraph offices ranked Northamtion as the town receiving the largest single percentage of messages from undergraduates, with Wellesley coming second, and Poughkeepsie taking an inglorious third place...
Both florist and telegraph offices agreed that mothers received a surprising percentage of the traffic, and variously estimated the flowers and messages going to mothers as being between one-half and one-third of the total...
Business, it was said, was quite up to the level of other years, and had not suffered because of the war. Tradespeople looked for a last minute spurt today. The telegraph office particularly, recalling that last year it had delivered an ice cream soda with four straws, a dog in a red ribbon, two fried eggs, and white mice, looked forward to a busy...
...been Harvard's number. Forty main truck lines lead into their switchboard and over six hundred local phones are in the system, ranging from Miss Abbott through a multitude of organizations and professors to Zoology Museum. Direct wires tie in the various graduate schools, Western Union, Postal Telegraph, and Radcliffe...
...nearly a year since the last message for London. In addition to tolls on these calls, rent must be paid on the electrical equipment, so Mrs. Morell, Business Manager Durant's girl Friday, each month writes out a $3,500 check for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. But the war, spawning numerous University committees and requiring more rapid dispatch of some professorial confabulation, has already overtaxed the present facilities of the central switchboard. Soon a sixth operator will have to be added...