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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 78

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er, the daily newspaper will be published.A novel diversion of a transatlantic crossing,nowadays, is a game of chess or checkers playedbetween passengers on two steamers hundreds ofmiles apart. The squares of the boards are num-bered and the moves announced by simply tele-graphing these numbers,… … A CHESS GAME BY WIRELESS. 1he other player may be hundreds of miles away. Each, by a wireless message, communicates his move to the other. about the trouble almost immediately, and assis-tance can be rushed from the nearest pointwithin a few minutes. There is the case, forinstance, of the great…

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