The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-22
TELEGRAPH NOW
IN EVERY HOME
JOINT SERVICE OFFERED eY THE
BELL AND WESTERN UNION
is OF GREAT coNVEN-
FENCE.

Every telephone telegraph station.
This is what the working agreement eff
fccted some time ago between the Bell
telephone companies and the Western
Union Telegraph company means. This
combined telegraph and telephone SER
vice and the institution OF night, day
and cable telegraph letters affords one
Of the greatest public conveniences
that hasbeen devised i'm years, in the
opinion of local telephone and tele-
graph men. AS the arrangement Is
comparatively new, there are many
who are not familiar with its work
ngs and its advantages.
There are In this country about g.
600 900 subscribers to Bell telephones
any one of whom can send telegram,
day letter. night letter, cablegram or
cable letter without leaving his home
at the same cost as IL sent from a
regular telegraph ollie. The charge for
kilograms dictated over the telephone
is made at the telephone office and is
billed to the subscribers with his
monthly telephone bill. If some one
is suddenly taken Ill and it is desired 70
get off a telegram at once, all one has
to do now is to step to the telephone
say Telegram" and the operator viii
connect the party direct with the West
crn Union office, where ii will be taker
down from dlctation and dispatched
} Immediately.
This service is of special conven-
Hence at night. While Marquette is tho
only all night telegraph Office in the
upper peninsula. every Bell telephone
subscriber in the upper peninsula has
free connection with the Marquette
= Office Of the Western Union for thu
purpose of sending kilograms and ca,
: kilograms. Formerly; a person at Me
nominee, Calumet Ironwood, the So
or other city except Marquette, WIFI
: wished to send telegram at nigh
I could not do so after the office in hi
town was closed. Now, that person
can send a telegram as convenient!
, as If he were at the Marquette ofilc
of the Western Union.
. Available From Every Telephone
No matter where a person may b
whatever the hour of day or night, al
D one has to do in order 10 send tele
gram is to step to his telephone an
inform the operator. If the TELEGRAPH
Office in the town is open, the perso
o will be connected with that office;
$ il is closed, he will be connected b
y long distance telephone with the Mar
= quette telegraph office and the tele
y gram sent with no additional charg
d or telephone toll.
c To illustrate: A man i'm Calum'
lat midnight wishes to send a nigl
letter to New York. He simply stel
e to his telephone and says, "Telt
= gram" The local operator at once cor
n meets him with the Western Union OF
o flee in Marquette. His night letter
& taken from dictation and the messal
e Is sent and delivered i'm New Yor
lie the next morning. 1t is just as COZ
n venient as telephoning to ones ne,
10 door neighbor and the service is avail
lie able to every Bell telephone subscril
N err in the country. The bill for Il
l. night letter sent by the Calumet ma
to New York would be sent to hi
with his monthly telephone bill fro
lie the local office. and he has no dire
= dealing with the Western Union con
" Ipany.
ID In all cities where there Is an II
m dependent Western Union Office. joi
,r office is maintained with the Bell Tel
N phone company. This does noe mes
r. that the business Of the two con
ID panies is conducted at one office. b.
1t that all kinds of kilograms NAV