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  • Title: Telegram from William F. Cody to George T. Beck
  • Date: April 15, 1896
  • Author: Cody, William Frederick, 1846-1917
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Form No. 1.
The Western Union Telegraph Company.
Incorporated
21,000 Offices In America. Cable Service to All The World.

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 Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing with in sixty days after the message is filed with the Company for transmission.
This is an Unrepeated Message, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above.
Thos. T. Eckert, President and General Manager.

Number 24 ch [1]

Sent By Kq /

Rec'd by B /

Check 15 paid

Received at Auditorium Hotel Annex
435 p
4/15 1896

Dated Ch Philadelphia Pa 15

To Geo T Beck

Audit Annex

Its most important for future success this colony [3] goes at once give every concession possible

W F Cody.

Note 1: Telegram is handwritten by clerk or WFC assignee. [back]

Note 2: Buffalo Bill's Wild West was in preparation for the opening of the 1896 season in Philadelphia on April 18th. [back]

Note 3: "Colony" refers to the fifty or so German migrant families that were planning to settle in the Big Horn Basin. [back]

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