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262 THE RISE AND PKOGRESS OF TELEGRAPHS.
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The Next Electric Telegraph In Order Of ...
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which is then messenger paper desp The atche , instrumental d to its ultimate clerks destination earn from . eight to eigh to teen shillings sh per
weekand the superintending clerks from twenty thirty illings . These delayed , latter , that are the responsible papers are ' that properl no y message filled in , is and unnecessaril the far words the y-
more the correc establishment tl numerous y spelt . ; The they after instrumental are their all twenty young clerks - , third none are year of being course but received they by may into
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—Somer sma set House , or Treasury-men—while three or four are the offices daug Should hters be the _carried of clergyrnen proposed outan . extension inestimable of female boon will clerks be presented to the branch to a _,
no with very resource the large power and at present of / most imparting , deserving but their knowled and class needle the ge of , , for have London women obtaining , as , District is who too , a if well livelihood Telegrap not known gifted h . ,
needle Companies Other companies Street for , ) are instance , the following Magnetic , ( the the offices steps of of both the International which are in , and Thread dul have in
structed already engaged for their a emp number loyment of ; hands but , the who honor are no and w b the eing credit y of - International
the movement is due to the Electric and Company :
262 The Rise And Pkogress Of Telegraphs.
262 THE RISE AND PKOGRESS OF TELEGRAPHS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 262, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/46/
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