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Form 1204 [right hand corner]

[left header]
CLASS OF SERVICE  [dividing line] SYMBOL
Day Message
Day Letter Blue
Night Message Nite
Night Letter N L
If non of these three symbols
appear after the check (number of
words) this is a day message. Other-
wise its character is indicated by the
symbol appearing after the check.

[center header]
WESTERN UNION
Western Union
TELEGRAM
NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT
GEORGE W. E. ATKINS, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT

[right header]
CLASS OF SERVICE  [dividing line] SYMBOL
Day Message
Day Letter Blue
Night Message Nite
Night Letter N L
If non of these three symbols
appear after the check (number of
words) this is a day message. Other-
wise its character is indicated by the
symbol appearing after the check.

[double line]

RECEIVED AT 257 Water St., Augusta, Maine   5 [blue]
88 W 22 10COLLECT
HALIFAX NS DEC 2 17
GEN GEO MCLPRESSON
AUGUSTA ME.

WE LEAVE SUNDAY NMIGHT NEW MEN WILL SLEEP AND EAT AT LADIES 
COLLEGE ASK THEM TO BRING MINE[E struck out]OR SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS CASES.
ELLIOTT
1038 AM

[stamped on diagonal and filled in]
Phoned To [stamped] Miss Getchell [handwritten]
Time [stamped] 1.00 AM [handwritten]
By [stamped] H [handwritten]

[handwritten in blue on lower left corner]
McElvey
Bill Capt AR
Goodman
U.S.A.