BACK FROM DEATH’S DOOR.
VEL..GRAPHIST ANSWERS CALL. The facility a telegraph operator has for picking up his own c-ail out of a veritable babel of clicking is well known. An old telegraphist may be sound asleep beside his instrument, with the sounder working all the time, but the instant his own call comes he will waken in a trice. This idea was lately made use of in an ingenious effort to save the life of a telegraphist in British Columbia. He had lain in a trance for a week, and all efforts to rouse him had failed. At last a telegraph ticker was brought to the sickroom, and PX, the patient’s private call, was sounded. Suddenly the telegraphist opened his eyes and smiled a little. The instrument then suggested that the pateuit should drink some milk, and again he responded, taking the first nnrishment he had had for si* days. The latest nvail report was that the doctors were cheered with high hopes for the man’s recovery.'
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 March 1925, Page 16
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