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Lonedale Operator, The, 140
Long, Catherine, 112
Los Angeles, Calif., telegraph office, 68
Love, Mary Ellen, 24, 75–76
Lowell Female Labor Reform Association,
3, 70
Lowell, Mass., telegraph office, 3, 40
Lunger, Mrs., 62
Luxembourg, women operators excluded
from service in, 9
Lynn, Mass., telegraph office, 6
Macaulay, Mary, 25, 49, 60, 69–70, 74, 181,
183, 185, 187
Mackay Radio, 186
Madison Square Garden, 161
“Magnetta” (telegraph operator), 87
“Ma Kiley” (Mattie Collins Brite), 10, 15, 19,
34, 36, 47–48, 61, 69, 74, 76, 101, 105,
107, 113, 164, 181
marriage by telegraph, 137–38
Marvin, Carolyn, 195
McCallie, Irene, 185–86
McCarthy, Justin, 119
McCullough, Mr., 157, 159–60
McCutcheon, George, 115
McCutcheon, Maggie, 115
McDowell, Mary, 170
McIsaac, Archibald M., 54, 197
McLaren, Marion, 67
McLuhan, Marshall, 38
mentoring, 48–49
Menzel, Jiri, 145
Mexican National Railroad, 74
Mexico, women operators in, 10
Meyer, Stephen, 101
Michigan Central Railroad, 15, 152
Military Telegraph Corps, 80
Miller, Eve, 143
Mineral Point, Mo., telegraph station, 80–81
Minot, Charles, 6
“Minta” (telegrapher), 149–51
“Miss Millner” (strike picket), 175
“Miss X” (telegrapher), 162
Mitchell, John, 161, 163
Mitchell, Minnie Swan. See Swan, Minnie
“Mizpa” (telegrapher), 32
Montenegro, women operators excluded
from service in, 9
Moore, E. M., 174
Morehead, Sue R., 16
INDEX 227
Morkrum (Teletype), 33
Morse, Samuel, 3, 16, 66, 109, 119
Morse code, 11, 77
Morse keys and “bugs,” 16–19
Mount Holyoke Seminary, 39
Mudge, Mr., 138–40
multiplex (Teletype), 33
Mutual Union Telegraph Company, 157
My Girls, 137
My Twentieth Century, 145
National Consumer’s League, 32
National Telegraphic Tournament, 71
National Telegraphic Union (NTU), 42, 66,
82, 86–92, 97, 147–48, 150, 154
National Typographical Union, 154
National Women’s Trade Union League. See
Women’s Trade Union League
Neff, Benjamin Barr, 75
Neff, Mary Ellen. See Mary Ellen Love
Neill, Charles P., 168–69
Netherlands, absence statistics for operators,
103–4
Neuromancer, 196
Newell, Medora Olive, 15, 60, 69
New Lisbon, Ohio, telegraph office, 7
New South Wales, women operators in, 9
New York and Boston Magnetic Telegraph
Company, 3, 7
New York Herald, 53
New York Journal, 175
New York, N.Y., CTUA Local 16, 170–73
New York, N.Y., Western Union: city department,
28–29, 39; multiplex operating
department, 33; office, 145 Broadway,
80–81, 109, 151–54; office, 195 Broadway,
30, 46, 158, 160–63, 167–68; office, 599
Bedford, 115; Teletype school, 49
New York Telegraph Operators’ Dramatic
Club, 67
New York Times, 92, 137, 165
New York World, 41, 73, 75, 105, 162–63, 175
New Zealand, women operators in, 9
Nichols, Ernest, 74
Nichols, Sadie, 74, 169
Nightingale, Florence, 94
“Nihil Nameless” (telegrapher), 99–101,
140
Niles, Mich., railroad depot, 15
Norske Kvinders Nationalraad (National
Council of Norwegian Women), 164