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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM COMPANY.

This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message.
Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission
or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after sending the message.
This is an UNREPEATED MESSAGE, and is delivered by request of the sender, under the conditions named above.

THOS. T. ECKERT, General Manager. NORVIN GREEN, President.

NUMBER
[23?] [Om?]

SENT BY
[CG?]

REC'D BY
Ed

CHECK
26 pd Govt

Received at Lincoln 11 30 a 1885

Dated, Exposition Grounds New Orleans La 3
To Prof C E Bessey University
Lincoln Neb

Be here not later than
ninth prepared to talk Nebraska
on the stand

Robt W Furnas
Com. for Nebraska