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    Mildred Harris (category Child marriage in the United States)
    appearance at age 10 in the 1912 Francis Ford- and Thomas H. Ince-directed Western short The Post Telegrapher. She followed the film with various juvenile...
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    The Deserter Custer's Last Fight (actor and director, 1912) – General George A. Custer The Post Telegrapher (director, 1912, Short) – Bob Evans – the...
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    actor of many films in the first half of the 20th century. Conway and director Edmund Goulding share the distinction of directing the most Best Picture-nominated...
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    The Order of Railroad Telegraphers (ORT) was a United States labor union established in the late nineteenth century to promote the interests of telegraph...
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  • This is a list of film directorial debuts in chronological order. The films and dates referred to are a director's first commercial cinematic release...
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  • Love (short) Mildred Harris – The Post Telegrapher (short) Cleo Madison – A Business Buccaneer (short) Mary Miles Minter – The Nurse (short) (as Juliet Shelby)...
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    the Trail, directed by Thomas H. Ince The Post Telegrapher, directed by Thomas H. Ince and Francis Ford - short film The Lieutenant's Last Fight The Outcast...
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  • (1912) The Colonel's Peril (1912) His Message (1912) Soldier's Honor (1912) The Outcast (1912) The Lieutenant's Last Fight (1912) The Post Telegraphers (1912)...
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    since the 1840s. The introduction of practical systems of telegraphy in the 1840s led to the creation of a new occupational category, the telegrapher, telegraphist...
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    telegrapher for a railroad. His mother, Mary Emma Osborn Yardley, died when he was 13. After graduation from high school in 1907, Yardley went to the...
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  • Clarrie Millar (category National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia)
    messenger boy, post office assistant, and junior assistant telegrapher. Millar enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1943, at the age of 18...
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    was working as a telegrapher at the Midland Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri]. Over the next five years, Lane worked as a telegrapher in Missouri, Indiana...
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  • (1919–1964), Norwegian telegrapher, resistance fighter and explorer Torstein Slungård (1931–2009), Norwegian politician from the Liberal Party Torstein...
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  • landline telegraphers to describe an operator "who lacks ability" or who had poor or "ham fisted" skills. By 1881, it had been alleged by telegrapher unions...
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  • Ithaca (film) (category Films set on the United States home front during World War II)
    war. He reminds Homer that he's the man of the house in his absence. At Homer's job he has to make sure the telegrapher Willie Grogan stays alert. He wakes...
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    Marshall Jewell (category Ambassadors of the United States to Russia)
    pioneer telegrapher, telephone entrepreneur, world traveler, and political figure who served as 44th and 46th Governor of Connecticut, the US Minister...
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  • communication system in the 1890s by the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. In the late 19th century there had been amateur wired telegraphers setting up their...
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    demand for the machine, Edison moved to New York City shortly thereafter. One of his mentors during those early years was a fellow telegrapher and inventor...
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    (4,000); for the six-year period it ranked fifteenth. Seventy-five of the one hundred strikes, chiefly interstate strikes of telegraphers and railway workers...
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  • sent over the wires than a horse which conveys false news in the mails. . . . The telegraphers are much annoyed when they are forced by their position to...
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    was the beginning of a long career as a press telegrapher; she subsequently operated for the Rochester Post Express in Rochester, New York, the Consolidated...
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    journalist, telegrapher, and inventor who compiled and expanded telegraph codes with his Phillips Code, a brevity code which included the abbreviations...
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    in the comedy 22 Jump Street as the double of Jonah Hill's character and in James Franco's drama The Sound and the Fury as a telegrapher. During the time...
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    Pat (July 22, 2012). "Rance Howard At 83: 'I Never Play The Ron Howard Card'". Huffington Post. Retrieved February 7, 2019. Balsamo, Michael (November...
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    Grito de Lares flag (category Flags of the insular areas of the United States)
    insurrección de Lares…" ("History of the insurrection of Lares…"), a chronicle on the Grito de Lares written by Spanish telegrapher and journalist José Manuel Pérez...
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    com/watch?v=s417Sush4Aw. The Medal The obverse depicts the four main methods of subterfuge practiced by the Ghost Army.  A telegrapher is shown keying a message...
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    during his teen years in the 1930s Gene Autry, actor, rodeo performer, and singer known as The Singing Cowboy, was a telegrapher in Bristow's Frisco Train...
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  • that began in 2008. The series is based on the Detective Murdoch novels by Maureen Jennings and is set in Toronto around the turn of the 20th century. It...
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    Maps, all eight of them being ghost towns now. Thompson, Jim. The Railroad Telegrapher, Vol. VII, No. 2, Fall 1993 / Winter 1994. Retrieved from http://thelibrary...
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    Andrew Carnegie (category Presidents of the Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York)
    United States with his parents in 1848 at the age of 12. Carnegie started work as a telegrapher. By the 1860s he had investments in railroads, railroad...
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