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Form 10 ^[[31]]
THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC AND FRANKLIN TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.
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[[left box]]
THOMAS t. ECKERT, President.
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The rules of these Companies require that all messages received for transmission shall be written on the message blanks of these Companies, under and subject to the conditions printed thereon, which conditions have been agreed to by the sender of the following message.
D. HOMER BATES, Gen. Sup't Atlantic Division, New York
CHAS. A. TINKER, Gen. Sup't Central Div'n, Chicago. R. P. HAMMOND, Gen. Manager, Pacific Div'n, San Francisco.
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[[right box]]
ALBERT B. CHANDLER, Secretary
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|NUMBER. ^[[2 [[?W]] ]]|SENT BY ^[[H]]|TIME ^[[2/34]]|RECEIVED BY ^[[?]]|CHECK. ^[[ [[?2X ?pt ?2i ?Govt]] ]]|
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Dated, ^[[Washn DC [[?6/26]] ]]
To ^[[Prof Baird]]
Rec'd at ^[[6/26]] 187^[[6]].
Govt Exhibition business Pha Pa
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[[Form 10 has preprinted horizontal and vertial lines and each horizontal line of the message form has preprinted numbers in right margin as follows: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, etc. There are four vertical lines marking off five word "boxes."  Each handwritten word of the message appears in a separate "box" of the form's grid.]]
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|Telegrams| received| checks| go| by| 5|
|mail| tonight| was| absent| in| 10|
|Phila| Saturday| & | Sunday| hence| 15|
|delay|   |   |   |   | 20|
|   |   |   |DeCaindry|   | 25|
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Van Kleeck, Clark & Co., Printers, 28 Vesey Street, N. Y.
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