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Editorialized the Quebec Chronicle Telegraph: "It is not for the Catholic Church to impose an inferior status on the clergy of other denominations before the civil law or to penalize innocent parties because one of its own members has failed to respect the canon...
...another bloody event. For trench digging, 100,000 spades have been manufactured in the caviar and sturgeon canning factories within, the past six weeks. Its defenders have been busy manufacturing "Molotov cocktails" (impromptu bombs) out of jam and fish cans; hatchets; crowbars; homemade armored cars. A sign in the telegraph office reads: "We do not guarantee time of arrival...
Last week six high-speed stenographers locked in a soundproof room of the offices of Australia's Sydney Telegraph scribbled furiously in relays. With earphones on his head and a radio-borne voice from the Telegraph's Manhattan office pouring a torrent of words into his ears, each stenographer scribbled frantically for about 1,000 words, then dropped out to rest while another took his place. Thus in about three hours, through 8,000 miles of air, at a cost for the telephone bill of about ?400 ($1,300) a week, TIME'S entire Foreign News...
...press syndicate head, David Yaffa, who sold it to Australia's liveliest publisher, youthful (34), two-fisted Frank Packer. Gold-mining tycoon Frank Packer is co-owner of Australia's Consolidated Press, Ltd. as well as publisher of Australia's most up-& -coming paper, the Sydney Telegraph...
When Photographer Hill started taking pictures in the 18405, photography was as new and primitive as television is today. The Frenchman, Louis Jacques Daguerre had just astonished the world by making the first photographs on chemically treated plates. In Manhattan Samuel F. B. Morse, who had just invented the telegraph, was busy on the roof of New York University making new-fangled "sun pictures." Morse's models, faces whitened with powder, had to sit immobile for half an hour in the sunlight, before their likenesses registered in his primitive camera...