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i K,f>.raON-. CABLF. TO BE T.AID BE1t;v ',N GULFPORT AND ShiP AND CHANDELEUR ISLANDS TOT AT LING 2 5 lA FILES DUE TO ViORLD VJAR ONE -- SIMILAR CABLE HAD BEEN IAID IN fc* I898 DURING SPANISH AMERICAN WAR FROK BILOXI TO SHIP ISLAND August - 1917
TO I. AY CAB I ^ TO OUTLYING ISLANDS Tvo carloads of cable are in the Railroad yards in Gulfport find vi11 soon be laid from Gulfport to Chip Inland and:tho Chandeleur Islands.
The cable vill be laid by the Cumberland Telephone Co. and vill to 25 1A milep long.
The vork of laylnr ontthe route vill be done in the next fev days after which the cable ?will te laid and put in operation.
The line v?ill be used in the interest of the Government. (World War One, vas going on)
During the JSpanish-Awerican ^?Tar a cable vas laid betveen Biloxi and Ship Irlsnd.
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Daily Herald - August if, 1917 P l+
O'. James Stevens)