Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1913 — LIFE INSURANCE BY WIRELESS [ARTICLE]

LIFE INSURANCE BY WIRELESS

Banker , Applies For and Receives 96,000 Policy on Steamship While at 80a. London. —The first instance at life insurance being contracted at sea by wireless was reported from an ocean liner. Among the passengers was Arthur P. Williams, a New York banker, who met a London insurance broker on board. They talked insurance, with the result that the broker wirelessed his company, proposing Williams as a I&.000 life risk. He also wirelessed the report of the ship’s doctor approving Williams. The company flashed its acceptance.