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telegraph-operator

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  • It is stated, on what seems to be good authority, that the general superintendent of the great corporation which lately has shown so hard a feeling towards its operatives when on a strike was himself only ten years ago a telegraph-operator.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • It is stated, on what seems to be good authority, that the general superintendent of the great corporation which lately has shown so hard a feeling towards its operatives when on a strike was himself only ten years ago a telegraph-operator.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • It is stated, on what seems to be good authority, that the general superintendent of the great corporation which lately has shown so hard a feeling towards its operatives when on a strike was himself only ten years ago a telegraph-operator.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • It is stated, on what seems to be good authority, that the general superintendent of the great corporation which lately has shown so hard a feeling towards its operatives when on a strike was himself only ten years ago a telegraph-operator.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • It is stated, on what seems to be good authority, that the general superintendent of the great corporation which lately has shown so hard a feeling towards its operatives when on a strike was himself only ten years ago a telegraph-operator.

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • The night telegraph-operator at the railroad station was the most melodramatic figure in town: awake at three in the morning, alone in a room hectic with clatter of the telegraph key.

    Main Street 2004

  • Mr. Tinkler, telegraph-operator of the cipher telegrams at Washington, in the Executive residence, took the despatch announcing the nomination of Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee, to the vice-presidency with Lincoln for the second term.

    The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

  • How astonished that simple-minded Irish telegraph-operator was!

    St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 Various

  • It is some years since I was station-master, telegraph-operator, baggage-agent and ticket seller at a little village near some valuable oil wells.

    Idle Hour Stories Eugenia Dunlap Potts

  • But of course there were no copies of orders or despatches which I had _not_ received; and the desertion of my telegraph-operator and the operations of Forrest's cavalry in my rear had made it probable that there must have been some such despatches sent but not received.

    Forty-Six Years in the Army John M. Schofield

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