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SEE OTHER SIDE FOR TELEGRAM
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SEE OTHER SIDE FOR TELEGRAM
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The Western Union
Telegraph Company
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THE LARGEST TELEGRAPHIC SYSTEM IN THE WORLD.
OVER ONE MILLION MILES OF WIRE IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
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It has over 24,000 Telegraph Offices, including Branch Offices.

It has also Direct Connection by Telegraph or Telephone with as many more remote and smaller stations, making a total list of over 50,000 in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and this number is rapidly increasing.
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Seven Atlantic Cables,

Connecting North American with all points in Europe and beyond, including Two Cables of American Telegraph and Cable Company, Four Cables of the AngloAmerican Telegraph Company, and One Cable of the Direct United States Cable Co.

Direct Wires to Galveston, Texas, connecting at that place with the Cables of the Mexican, the Central and South American Telegraph companies for all points in Mexico and Central and South America.

Direct Wires and Cable to Havana, Cuba, connecting at that place with the Cuba Submarine and West India and Panama Telegraph Companies for all points in the West Indies.

Connects at San Francisco with Pacific Cables to the Sandwich Islands, Honolulu, Guam, the Philippines, China, Japan, etc., and at Victoria, B.C., with Pacific Cable to Australia and New Zealand.

Connects at Seattle, Wash., with U.S. Government Lines and Cable to and in Alaska.

Exclusive connection with the Great North-Western Telegraph Co. of Canada.

[[image - two telegraph poles with lines.  The taller pole is captioned: W. U. T. Co. 24,634 Offices.  The shorter pole captioned Other Co'S. 4,868 Offices.  Both captioned: THE TWO TELEGRAPH POLES REPRESENT THE RELATIVE SIZE IN NUMBER OF OFFICES OF THE WESTERN UNION AS COMPARED WITH ALL OTHER COMPETING COMPANIES COMBINED.]]

DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MONEY ORDERS BY TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
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