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per Telegraph Operator
6 August 1870 • Elmira, N.Y.
(MS, copy received: NPV, UCCL 00495)
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[the western union telegraph company. ]

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Father died this afternoon1

[S. L. ]Clemens.

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1 Jervis Langdon died at around 5 p.m.



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MS, copy received, telegram blank filled out in the hand of a telegraph operator, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Vassar College Library (NPV).

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the . . . company. • Blank No. 1. | THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY. | [] The rules of this Company require that all messages received for transmission, shall be written on the message blanks of the Company, under and subject to the conditions printed thereon, which conditions have been agreed to by the sender of the following message. | ANSON STAGER, Gen’l Sup’t, Chicago, Ill. WILLIAM ORTON, Pres’t, O. H. PALMER, Sec’y, New York.

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