St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 13, 1910

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POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words. HO could resist the temptation to try his literary | skill on a telegraph blank when he can send 50 words at night for the same price that 10 cost him in the day- time? 3 It looks so important, so Susiness-tike, so tin- )pressive, don't you know, to walk into a place »where the busy tick-tick of the instruments is }sounding on all sides, to write out a private OP Ly

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“" Leo OTe communication that looks as hefty as a Taft- yhurry-up message to Congress, and to toss it over to the clerk with a $5 bill, saying: “Get that off in a rush, please,” just as though it were r cablegram or a money order. . That message may be going only as far as /Round Knob, Ill., or Tail Holt, Ind., but it looks }good, just the same, Besides, it costs only 25 —

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FOR TELEGRAPA LETTER WRITERS

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Hasn’t my own lovey-dovey got enough of that silly old town yet? It seems a long time since my tootsie wootsie went away. 8t. Louis is like a desert while you ure not here. Hurry back to your longing hubby. Regards to the McGrabbs. Love and countless -kisses, PERCY.” The beauty about this “night letter telegram” ~ cents. Who would not willingly sacrifice two- system is that no kind of goo-goo talk is barred. f ) bits to make a showing like that? | Everything goes erie inane private codes. - Here is an actor’s flash: ' David Tobasco, Manager Tobasco’s Theater, New York: Congratulate your latest and most suc- cessful star. Opened here last night to an 8. R. O. audience in “Gwendolyn’s Gold Tooth” and had them going every minute from the rise of the curtain. Local critics say I am the best ever. Wire $500 and new contract. F. DANIELS COHAN.

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F course, this is a good deal like wearing omitted something, am your heart on your sleeve, but one who does that: sort of thing always says to himself, “Oh, what do I care? This telegraph operator here with the toothbrush in his vest pocket doesn’t know me, and will never see me again.” Ariother one cuts loose with a wheeze _ like this: Roger O'Connor, Manager Robin Redbreast Baseball Team, Little Rock, Tex.; Nix on the bull for yours truly. I have already gave you my terms, and will not play for a single bean less. Soft soap don’t get me nothing while pork chops is so high. Come across with more glue if:you expect me to stick this season. a nothing stir- ring. ODY POWELL. If they ever get to send these liege x letters” by wireless—well, just imagine Sself what a grand mixup there ¥ 10,000 of these 50- y crossing between San Of course, when Mrs. P. ¥ flicker goes to the seashore . ’ i ‘ % ; eRe 2 other a : s fe % = ~ = Lae wf "seit 4 R gs, ; Fa % ; lal a - - ? f + s