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Having finally returned to the telegraph office after three days of ignoring it, area man George Brittlemeier is reportedly overwhelmed by the number of telegrams left to read in his telegram feed. Owing to numerous work and family obligations, Kansas native Brittlemeier let his incoming telegrams pile up, and now there are over five hundred telegrams waiting for him at the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Office. According to Brittlemeier, \u201cHeld up by a considerable assignment STOP Eldest son still recovering from case of consumption STOP Unable to make trip into Wataska STOP\u201d <\/p>\n
So many telegrams were wired to Brittlemeier\u2019s account that they nearly exceeded his personal storage limit. \u201cIf he\u2019d done that, I would have been forced to open up my filing cabinet and put some in the wastebasket,\u201d said local A&P man Jacob Saltz. \u201cI\u2019ve only had to do that a couple of times, when the telegrams really piled up. But he sure does have a lot of telegrams.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sheer number of telegrams left to decode and answer is nearly enough to dissuade Brittlemeier from even diving in. While most of the telegrams are retapped missives and pound symbols growing fashionable, he still believes he should begin reading. \u201cPossible some important invitation to a telegreet-up buried in there STOP Also enjoy favoriting amusing zoetrope pictures of domestic animals STOP\u201d Not to mention, said Brittlemeier, the obligation he has to his own patrons to continue translating his own thoughts into Morse code and tapping them with some regularity. <\/p>\n
Asked if he is also behind on his Pony Express profile, Brittlemeier said that he doesn\u2019t use the equestrian network. \u201cNot interested in horses STOP Too much drama STOP\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Chris Deakin Feb. 4, 2013 Having finally returned to the telegraph office after three days of ignoring it, area man George Brittlemeier is reportedly overwhelmed by the number of telegrams left to read in his telegram feed. Owing to numerous work and family obligations, Kansas native Brittlemeier let his incoming telegrams pile up, and now there are over five hundred telegrams waiting for him at the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Office. According to Brittlemeier, \u201cHeld up by a considerable assignment STOP Eldest son still recovering from case of consumption STOP Unable to make trip into Wataska STOP\u201d So many telegrams were wired to Brittlemeier\u2019s account that they nearly exceeded his personal storage limit. \u201cIf he\u2019d done that, I would have been forced to open up my filing cabinet and put some in the wastebasket,\u201d said local A&P man Jacob Saltz. \u201cI\u2019ve only had to do that a couple of times, when the telegrams really piled up. But he sure does have a lot of telegrams.\u201d The sheer number of telegrams left to decode and answer is nearly enough to dissuade Brittlemeier from even diving in. While most of the telegrams are retapped missives and pound symbols growing fashionable, he still believes he should begin reading. \u201cPossible some important invitation to a telegreet-up buried in there STOP Also enjoy favoriting amusing zoetrope pictures of domestic animals STOP\u201d Not to mention, said Brittlemeier, the obligation he has to his own patrons to continue translating his own thoughts into Morse code and tapping them with some regularity. Asked if he is also behind on his Pony Express profile, Brittlemeier said that he doesn\u2019t use the equestrian network. \u201cNot interested in horses STOP Too much drama STOP\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}