| | Worthwhile Endeavor on the "Collins Line"
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| | by J Chester Gordon
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My wife Jo and I first heard about the Collins Overland Telegraph Line in 1970
while exploring in the Dawson City country in the Yukon. We are history buffs
and travel in northern Canada every summer.
The Collins Line was planned to
connect all the major capitals of the world. Western Union started in 1865 to
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | by Marilyn Albers
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It is always rewarding to collectors,
especially to us foreign insulator enthusiasts, to learn of a manufacturer/distributor
that we have not known about heretofore.
Wayne Junop (Palmer Rapids, Ontario) is
responsible for the information in this month's column. Wayne is a former
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| | Letters to the Editor
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Dear Ms. Harned,
I would like to subscribe to 12 issues of
the "Crown Jewels of the Wire." I have enclosed a check for $10.00.
I
would also appreciate it very much if you could give me a little information on
a mint insulator that I have. It's a CD 132 "old Hemingray #2
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| | First Building Built Expressly For Telephone Company
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The following is reprinted from the July-August 1983 issue of "The
Information Desk" with permission of Telephone Museum, San Francisco,
California.
When the town of
Redding was surveyed it was named by the railroad engineer who located it, in
honor of B. B. Redding, the Central Pacific Company's land agent. After a few
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| | Lynchburg Glass Corporation - Lynchburg, Virginia
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Location
Lynchburg, Virginia, on main line of the Chesapeake
& Ohio Railroad from Newport News to Cincinnati, Ohio; on main line of
Southern Railway from Washington, D.C. to Atlanta, Ga.; on main line of Norfolk
& Western Railroad from Norfolk, Va., to Toledo, Ohio.
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