National Postal Museum
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 311 War Exposition Chicago Ills and contained sixty words charged to the U.S. government. It was a duplicate of the original sent by John A. Jordan to Capt. Benjamin B. Lipsner from Bryan, Ohio, at 7:28 p.m. on September 6, 1918.
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