Lightning Flashes And Electric Dashes: a volume of choice telegraphic literature, humor, fun, wit & wisdom
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- Lightning Flashes And Electric Dashes: a volume of choice telegraphic literature, humor, fun, wit & wisdom
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- 1882
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Lightning Flashes And Electric Dashes: a volume of choice telegraphic literature, humor, fun, wit & wisdom
Author: Johnston, William John
Year: 1882
CONTENTS. THE TELEGRAPHER'S DREAM (Frontispiece) J. J. Calahan SOME CURIOUS ANECDOTES OF THE WIRE W. J. Johnston 7 PROFESSOR MORSE AND THE TELEGRAPH Benson J. Lossing. LL.D 17 Illustrations — Samuel F. B. Morse, Morse's First Recording Telegraph, Fac-simile of the First Daguerreotype of the Face Made in America, Morse's Residence at Locust Grove. SONG OF THE PLUG G. W. Russell 28 JOSEPH CHRISTIE. With Portrait 29 ILLUSTRATION OF CENTENNIAL-TELEGRAPHIC ROMANCE Frank Beard 30 A CENTENNIAL-TELEGRAPHIC ROMANCE. W. J. Johnston 31 BY TELEGRAPH Poem 41 AN EVENING REVERIE John Oakum 42 E O. CHASE With Portrait 45 THE TELEPHONE (Cartoon) J. J. Calahan 46 POSITION IS EVERYTHING (Cartoon) J. J. Calahan 48 A LEAF OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY W. P. Phillips. 49 KATE — An Electro-Mechanical Romance Charles Barnard, Scribner's Monthly 58 Illustrations — "A handkerchief is quickly flirted in the air."— "The girl satin the fireman's high seat"— "Kate unrolled the wire as he took it up."— "She fell into his arms senseless and white." OUT OF ADJUSTMENT G. W. Russell 62 GEORGE WASHINGTON CRIBBS' TELEGRAM Joseph Christie 63 SCENES ON A JERSEY RAILROAD (Cartoon) Joseph Christie 65 TELEGRAPHY , ANCIENT AND MODERN (C
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