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NIGHT LETTER
The Great North Western Telegraph Company of Canada

Cable Service to All the World

Terms and Conditions

All NIGHT LETTERS are received by this Company for transmission subject to the terms and conditions printed on then Blank Form No.2 which terms and conditions have been agreed to by the sender under these conditions.


HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO
H. P. DWIGHT
President
GEO. D. PERRY
General Manager

Box 03-155 TO REV. CALVIN MCQUESTEN from D. A. McKeracher
Mar 6 1912
To: Rev. Calvin McQuesten 439 Confederation Life Bldg., Toronto, Ontario
From: 48 Collect N L, Bracebridge, Ontario

Rev. Calvin McQuesten

Bracebridge extend call to you. First vote, McQuesten 41, Bremmer 35, McRae 15, Second vote McQuesten 53, Bremmer 38, Stipend one thousand. 42 members signed and 8 adherents, want supply for Gravenhurst next Sunday. Please come yourself or send a man.

D. A. McKeracher
1158 P


[Reverse Side of Night Letter]

THE GREAT NORTH WESTERN TELEGRAPH CO.

CONNECTING WITH THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO.. CONSTITUTES THE LARGEST TELEGRAPHIC SYSTEM IN THE WORLD.

OVER ONE MILLION MILES OF WIRE IN CANADA AND UNITED SATES

Over 25,000 Telegraphic Offices Including Branch Offices.

Also Direct Connection by Telegraph or Telephone with many more remote and smaller stations, making a total list of 60,000 in Canada, United States and Mexico, and this number is rapidly increasing.

SEVEN ATLANTIC CABLES

Connecting North America with all points in Europe and beyond, including Two Cables of the American Telegraph and Cable Company, Four Cables of the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, and One Cable of the Direct United States Cable Co.

Connects at Galveston, Texas, with the Cables of the Mexican, the Central and South American Telegraph Companies for all points in Mexico and Central and South America.

Cables to Havana, Cuba, connecting at that place with the Cuba Submarine and West India and Panama Telegraph Companies for all points in the West Indies.

Connects at San Francisco with Pacific Cables to the Sandwich Islands, Honolulu, Guam, the Philippines, China, Japan etc. and at Victoria, B.C. with Pacific Cable to Australia and New Zealand.

Connects at Seattle Wash. With U.S. Government Lines and Cables to and in Alaska.


[Envelope for Box 03-155 night letter]

NIGHT LETTER


- From -
GREAT NORTH WESTERN TELEGRAPH CO.

Rev. Calvin McQuesten
439 Confed. Life
No. 1202
Charges 0.25

ANSWER BY BEARER AND OBTAIN QUICK SERVICE


[Reverse of Envelope for Night Letter]

NIGHT LETTERS AT GREATLY REDUCED RATES
Exclusive Connection with

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO.


26,000 Offices in North America
SEVEN ATLANTIC CABLES

MONEY ORDERS BY TELEGRAPH




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