Word: telegraphs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD : In a recent trip in Europe. I was delighted to find many young men studying electrical or telegraph engineering. This profession being the latest one, has not yet become over-crowded. Great fortunes have been made in Europe and this country in this new profession. Many think we have too many clergymen, lawyers and doctors, and ninety-five per cent, of the business men fail. There are two places in England and one place in America where this new profession is taught. If any of your younger readers are interested I should be pleased to give them...
...large fire is now raging in Haverhill; Mass. It has been burning since midnight, and is beyond the control of the firemen. Engines have been sent from Boston. Telegraph and telephone communication have been broken down. Flames were plainly visible from Boston...
...snowfall in Austria has been so great that in many places the drifts reach the telegraph wires...
...remained in the town to "make night hideous." They marched through the streets, stoned the professor's house, broke off young growing trees, damaged fences, and demolished sixteen street lamps. If the newspapers may be believed, "this and previous depredations, consisting of greasing the railroad track and sawing off telegraph poles., etc., bear semblance to a speedy return of old time larks...
...maiden worked a telegraph...