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Telegraph in Selling Promoted by Western Union Booklet
Western Union promotes telegraph use in sales with a booklet showing real telegrams driving orders. Examples include a shoe jobber, flour and coal firms, and an Olive Oil Company achieving substantial sales through brief, targeted messages. The firm distributes copies nationwide and notes other uses such as greetings and condolence telegrams, plus charitable money transfers at reduced rates for soldiers.
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