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1901

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Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cooke
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Ann Dorsey,
to
Mr. Harold Carrington Sheetz,
on Wednesday, November the sixth,
nineteen hundred and one,
at twelve o'clock.
Methodist Episcopal Church South,
Goshen, Maryland

1844.—The first electro-magnetic recording
telegraph line in the United
States was established by Professor
Morse between Washington and Baltimore.
The first experiment was
made April 9, and the line completed
May 24.

1844.—THE SUN was the first newspaper
in the world to make use of
the electric telegraph.

1846—May 11.—The first Presidential
message ever transmitted by telegraph
was exclusively sent to THE SUN.

1848—November.—George B. Simpson
exhibited in Baltimore the first sucessful
submarine telegraph, the one
now in practical use by all telegraph
companies.

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