Telegram from Jordan on September 6, 1918

September 6, 1918

The first line of the Western Union telegram was in code [in care of] C 651 and contained sixty words charged to the U.S. government. Capt. Benjamin B. Lipsner received this telegram from John A. Jordan, who wired it from Bryan, Ohio, at 7:28 p.m. on September 6, 1918. A handwritten notation in the lower left corner reads, “Rec.d 8:23 p.m. Phoned Capt. Lipsner. . . .”