per
Telegraph Operator
28 January 1885 • Milwaukee, Wis. (MS, copy received: NPV, UCCL 03140)
form no. 44
night message.
the western union telegraph company.
B58
this company transmits and delivers messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message.
errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of unrepeated night messages, sent at reduced rates, beyond a sum equal to ten times the amount paid for transmission, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within thirty days after sending the message.
this is an unrepeated night message, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above.
thos. t. eckert, general manager. norvin green, president.
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number sent by rec’d by check
0773 Wp Sc 10 Paid Mte
received at the western union Building, 195 broadway, new york, Jany 29 1885
dated Milwaukee Wis 28
to C. L. Webster
685 Broadway
NY.
Yes draw five thousand dollars from the No 2 account
S. L. Clemens.
MS, copy received, Jean Webster McKinney Family Papers, Special Collections, NPV.
MicroPUL, reel 2.