Telegram from Praeger on September 5, 1918
National Postal Museum

Telegram from Praeger on September 5, 1918

September 5, 1918

paper; ink
National Postal Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
National Postal Museum

Incoming electric signal from Western Union in Washington, D.C., decoded and printed a message of fifty-four-words onto a blank telegram form to B B Lipsner (Capt. Benjamin B. Lipsner) Care Postmaster Chicago ILL from Praeger Second Assistant (Otto Praeger, second assistant postmaster general).

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