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Lightning flashes and electric dashes a volume of choice telegraphic literature, humor, fun, wit & wisdom

Title
Lightning flashes and electric dashes [electronic resource] : a volume of choice telegraphic literature, humor, fun, wit & wisdom / contributed to by all the principal writers in the ranks of telegraphic literature as well as several well-known outsiders.
Publication
New York : W.J. Johnston, 1877.

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Additional Authors
Johnston, W. J. (William John)
Description
1 online resource (141, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates) : ill., ports., facsim.
Series Statement
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925
Uniform Title
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.
Subject
  • Telegraph > Fiction
  • Telegraphers > Fiction
Note
  • Chiefly short stories.
  • Edited by William John Johnston.
  • Another, larger ed. published in the same year.
  • Printed in double columns.
  • Publisher's advertising: [2] p., 2nd count.
  • Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.
Contents
The volcanograph / Joseph Christie -- The month of May / H.G. Adams -- Professor Morse and the telegraph / Benson J. Lossing -- The telegraph dispatch / J.D. Reid -- The song of the plug / G.W. RUssell -- Wives for two, or, Joe's little joke / E.O. Chase -- Leander's tour of investigation / D.C. Shaw -- Kate / Charles Barnard -- A perilous Christmas courship, or, Dangerous telegraphy / J.M. Maclachlan -- Some oxberience mit a railroats / C.E. Watts -- The carvinal of Oshkosh / T.C. Noble, Jr.
OCLC
  • 657114521
  • NCCO2001258
Title
Lightning flashes and electric dashes [electronic resource] : a volume of choice telegraphic literature, humor, fun, wit & wisdom / contributed to by all the principal writers in the ranks of telegraphic literature as well as several well-known outsiders.
Imprint
New York : W.J. Johnston, 1877.
Series
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925.
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Johnston, W. J. (William John)
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