National Postal Museum
Telegram to Benjamin Lipsner, September 4, 1918
September 4, 1918
Second Assistant Postmaster General Otto Praeger wires Captain Benjamin B. Lipsner in a 32-word Western Union telegram received September 4, 1918 at 10:24 that all is going well or “hundred percent for today.” Max Miller, flying the new Standard JR-1B biplane, designed for commercial postal flight, wires that all is “well for the trip tomorrow.” The New York to Chicago pathfinder flight is scheduled for September 5, 1918.
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