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Tuesday, December 06, 2016
Radtke trains telegraph operators in the 1940s
From Elgin Courier 8-5- 1943
Jack Abrahamson told me some time ago that N R Radtke, who was the telegraph operator in the Elgin Interlocker tower, did a lot of training of young men in his spare time. I just ran across this article in the Courier which fills out this story.