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FROM THE ARCHIVEMar 27, 1909·Marion, Ohio

WIRELESS TELEPHONE STATIONS PLANNED

Scanned from The Marion Daily Mirror, Mar 27, 1909
WIRELESS TELEPHONE STATIONS PLANNED
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WtyOff j0rtpW wpxvst nii i J Mt i ikAv XV h M F a. I M VOLUME XVII NUMBER SfcJW ss ssfr i Mi Ni Wireless Telephone P LANS have been perfected for the establishment of a number of wireless telephone stations at intervals of 100 or 200 miles along the Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Florida and the work of erecting the necessary towers will be gin within a very few weeks or as sooi as the requite muterisl can be gatnem aid shipped to the various points where the stations wjll be located. The great boon that virtless tele graphy has bten to humanity Is so wel known and so universally adintjd that conmcrrt upon this subject Is not only unneceisary but superfluous. The wireless telephony the mar recent bu none the less marvelous invention t iJ be a blessing equally grea is vn ai ured fact A conspicuous example of the vnlue of wireless tetcfjrtphy vas furrlic id recently.

In connsction with tlv dt on the S S Republic whin it tnst h cqlthion with the S S Flotjda in t fog tt ten and was wrecked and the falthM wirtlsss telegraph operator Jack Bkns electrified ilia.

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