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Page 3 for employed read enjoyed
” 10 for lost read last
” 52 second line from foot read:
The first telegraph office in Washington was in a
” 54 for young man read young woman
Transcriber’s Note
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unpaired quotation marks were retained. On several lines, the first or last letter was not printed. Those have been remedied here.
Original text uses both “Sandford Fleming” and “Sanford Fleming”. The former is correct and is used throughout this eBook.
Original text uses both “Branley” and “Branly”; both retained here.
Original text contains what appear to be numerous spelling errors of words and names that only occur once. Since they could reflect accepted practices at the time the book was written, or the author’s way of spelling them, most of them have been retained in this eBook.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.