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i	-J>.rUONE CABLE TO BE I.AID BETWh GULFPORT AND ShiP AND CHA\TDELEUR ISLANDS TOTALLING 25 lA VILTiS DUE TO ViORLD VJAR ONE -- SIMILAR CABLE HAD BEEN IAID IN fc* I898 DURING SPANISH AMERICAN WAR FROM BILOXI TO SHIP ISLAND Aujnist - 1917
TO LAY CABI^ TO OUTLYING INLANDS Two carloads of cable are in the Railroad yards in Gulfport find vi11 soon be laid from Gulfport to Chip Inland end the Chandeleur Islands.
The cable will be laid by the Cumberland Telephone Co. and vill bo 25 lA milep long.
The vork of laylnr ontthe route ■'.-.•ill be done in the next few days after which the cable vill be laid and put in operation.
The line will be used in the interest of the Government. (World War One, vas going on)
During ^he.^.p.au.ishj^Awerican War a cable was laid between Biloxi and Ship Inland.
Daily Herald - August 1917 p ^	O'. James Stevens)
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