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looks over the items of a daily newspaper, it will be found that 

 the great majority of items have been sent in by telegraph. 



Elections. On election day citizens in all parts of the 

 country cast their ballots. By midnight of the same day 

 returns are telegraphed into headquarters, and even in 

 presidential elections by the next morning the whole country 

 usually knows who has been elected president. 



Baseball. During the World Series of baseball games be- 

 tween Boston and Brooklyn in 1916, thousands of baseball 

 fans were gathered together in all the large cities near the 

 telegraph offices, and were able to watch the returns inning 

 by inning as they were brought in by the telegraph, and 

 only a few minutes after the fourth game was finished, these 

 thousands of people knew that Boston had again won the 

 world's championship. 



Weather forecast. Each day's paper contains the weather 

 forecast of the next day's weather. This is made possible 

 because reports of weather conditions in two hundred locali- 

 ties are telegraphed to Washington and other cities, where 

 forecasts of weather are made as a result of these reports. 



Railroads. The telegraph is indispensable in the running 

 of railroad trains. As explained in Chapter XVI, when- 

 ever a train arrives at a station, the news is telegraphed to 

 a man called a dispatcher located at headquarters, who 

 arranges the places where the trains shall meet and pass, 

 thus avoiding accidents. 



Clocks run by telegraph. Clocks may now be regulated by 

 electricity. A certain accurate clock is taken as the stand- 

 ard ; other clocks, connected with this, have a mechanism so 

 that the minute hand is set forward or back, as may be neces- 

 sary to keep the clock in unison with the standard clock. 



Other uses. The telegraph is of great value to the business 

 man in his ordinary business transactions. If he wishes 

 to order some material which he needs at once, he can send 

 a telegram and secure the order on the next train. If a 



