| Overland Telegraph Wire
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(These five pages are a reprint of the chapter "Overland Telegraph
Wire", from the book AMERICAN TELEGRAPHY. sorry we have lost track of who
sent it in -- we have had it a long time, and this is the first issue with space
enough to include it.)
CHAPTER XXXI.
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| Treasures From The Sea
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| by Doug MacGillvary
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The following article appeared in The Hartford Courant Monday
morning, January 12, 1874, on page 3 in the "By Telegraph" column
under the sub heading THE SOUTH:
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| Me And The 143 (#12)
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| by Grant Salzman, NIA #1785
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Great North Western
Telegraph Co.!! What a romantic name! Can you imagine the visions that this name
would conjure up in the minds of the city dwellers and Easterners during the
middle and late 1800's?? Wouldn't it foster pride and stir up the pioneer
spirit? Unfortunately the name is no longer used, but it still exists on the
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| Foreign Insulators
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| by Marilyn Albers
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Russian Insulators
Story time again! This one comes from Don Fiene
of Knoxville, Tennessee. He first wrote to me in May 1979 to say he was
beginning work on an insulator encyclopedia, had heard of my interest in foreign
items, and would like to include in his book some information about my project.
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