telegraph pole
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For example, imagine the task that telegraph pole installers faced 170 years ago.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2020
Notices stuck to a telegraph pole advertised an upcoming raffle, a talk about Lord Byron, and the campaign to save the school, which is a hundred and eighteen years old.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 3, 2018
On a recent stag weekend in Hamburg, Kit witnessed a stag – dressed in a hamburger outfit – climbing a telegraph pole.
From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2018
The Welshman rode through the pain barrier, and at one point a telegraph pole, in the name of helping his team-mate Froome and was up in fourth until the latter stages of week three.
From BBC • Jul. 26, 2015
A telegraph pole at the corner held Fire Alarm Box No. 2475.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
