But they did not know that the telegraph office wires only went into the nearby forest.
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It was not a real telegraph office.
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Then, the telegraphoffice breaks the news that a man he sent to prison years earlier, Frank Miller, has just been released and is arriving on the noon train.
From 1870, when the Post Office was given control of the telegraph system, many more women were employed in running the telegraphs and from here moved into administrative and clerical roles.