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Identifier: newenglandmagazi1891bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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as if the game had beenplayed on the polo grounds in New YorkCity. Could the astonished citizens of Wash-ington, D. C, when they read in theextras of the afternoon of May ist,1844, the strange heading, By Tele-graph, and under it the printed news ofthat which had taken place in Baltimore(the distance oi forty miles intervening),but half an hour before, and which theyknew could not have reached the city bythe usual means, the railroad, — couldthese same astonished citizens have lookedforward to this year of grace, 1891, andby some occult power have been enabledto see the telegram flashing through17,000 miles of space in as short a timeas was required to send that first mes-sage from Annapolis Junction, twenty-two miles, to Washington, they would nothave been so slow to realize the futureof the then ridiculed invention and tolend their means to the speedy establish-ment of the telegraph upon a soundfinancial basis On November 28, 1837, ProfessorMorse addressed the Hon. Levi Wood- ^^-^
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The Factory, Speedwell, Morristown, N.J. 452 EARLY DAYS OF THE FIRST TELEGRAPH LINE.

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