Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1895 — Postal Telegraphy. [ARTICLE]

Postal Telegraphy.

A well known inventor and electrician anouiices liis firm conviction that it is time to get out of the telegraph its full working value, and that it ought now to be used for tlie carriage of the mails, not in the physical sense, lint literally, all the same. He believes that 40.000 or 50,000 letters of about fifty words each between Chicago and New York could every day be profitably he sent over a couple of copper wires at a rate of twelve to fifteen cents a-piece. Thousands of such letters now pay twelve cents in the mail to insure the saving of half an hour after a journey of twenty-four hours. The plan is based necessarily on "machine telegraphy,” which has been on trial before and not gone very far.