MRS WM S BROWN =
ROUTE 1 BLISSFIELD MICH =
ALL WELL AND SAFE PLEASE DONT WORRY. ALL MY LOVE =
RALPH W BROWN
. 1150M..
The next letter will be posted on August 19th.
Background Information (and comments):
- I'm just guessing that this telegram was sent on August 13 as there is no date on it. The only date is the postmark on the envelope which was stamped in Adrian MI (receiving site).
- Here's some information about the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company and the current status of telegrams:
Postal Telegraph Company (Postal Telegraph & Cable Corporation) was a major operator of telegraph and Telex networks in the United States prior to its consolidation with Western Union in 1943.[1] Postal partnered with Commercial Cable Company for overseas cable messaging.
- Postal was founded in the decade of the 1880s by John William Mackay, an entrepreneur who had made a fortune in silver mining in the Comstock Lode. Mackay's original purpose was to provide a domestic wire network to directly link with the Atlantic Cable. Mackay built the Postal network by the purchase of existing firms that were insolvent. The company was initially called The Pacific Postal Telegraph Cable Co.[2]Under president Albert Brown Chandler, the Postal network was able to achieve sufficient economy of scale to compete with Western Union, occasionally controlling as much as 20% of the business.
It is no longer possible to send a telegram, and the U.S. Post Office never sent telegrams for customers. The service is obsolete, and the last telegram in the United States was sent by Western Union on Feb. 2, 2006. India was the last country in the world to use the telegraph to send messages and sent its final telegram on July 13, 2013.
Here is the telegram:
Front of envelope:
Back of envelope:
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