1901 Western Union Telegram from Philadelphia, PA - Thomas Eckert Association.

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This is an original telegram dated Sept. 20, 190a from Philadelphia, PA as follows:
J.F. Hudson
Laurel Dela?
Please get check from Armstrong at once did not see him.
Jacob Schreiber & Son
This item is in good condition.  A very interesting aspect of this item is the printed signature of Thos. T. Eckert, as president and general manager of Western Union.  Eckert was good friends with Abraham Lincoln & came under suspicion after Lincoln was shot because he had turned down an invitation to Ford's Theatre that deadly night.  He knew Lincoln well because the president hung out in Eckert's telegraph office because it was the first place to learn of developments on the Civil War battlefield.  In fact the inkwell on Eckert's desk is in the Smithsonian and credited with being the one that Lincoln used to write the Gettysburg address.
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