Word: telegraphically
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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...
...which is built directly opposite the finish of the course. As only the end of the race can be seen from the stand, various methods are employed to keep the spectators informed about the progress of races from the very start. In the first place, there is a little telegraph office adjoining, through which a constant communication is kept up between the start and each separate half mile flag, and these messages are posted directly in front of the grand stand on huge blackboards erected for this purpose. Besides this method there is another, by which...