Business & Finance: Wire-Writing

You want to, or must write somebody in particular. You are too busy, or too lazy to do it. You live in Boston, New York, Atlanta, Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco or Los Angeles. You ask Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. for a photogram blank, and your problem is solved. On the blank, you scribble a few words—terse words or smart words, according to your taste. It makes no difference whether your handwriting is neat or hideous; Postal Telegraph-Cable Co., in co-operation with American Telephone & Telegraph Co., will accept your message and transmit it by telephotograph. Within an hour or two,...

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