Word: telegraphs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is material in the University for a gun club that would be invincible against other college teams. There is considerable talk about challenging the Harvard club. It is suggested that a match might be arranged to be shot by telegraph. - Cornell...
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...very striking illustration will long be remembered by all who heard it. A farmer on one of the northern railroad lines witnessed a land-slide across the railroad track shortly before the time of an express train. It was in the evening. The man could not reach a telegraph station, and lighting a lantern, he started up the track to stop the train. But he fell, as he heard the train approaching, and broke his lantern, extinguishing the light. With no match his only resource was to stand by the track and as the train thundered past, cast the broken...
Beautiful Harvard Street and more beautiful Harvard Square, is to be blocked up with unsightly telegraph poles and covered with wires. We wish to enter a New York plea for underground wires. At this late date to disfigure the old street is truly iconoclastic...