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Telegram codebook & Renault archivist?



Hello, all you good looking people:

I've been lurking and reading and reading and lurking and asking myself, "Whatever happened to that crazy guy from the Corps of Engineers who used to write those oddly affecting posts from all around the country and even Europe?"  Recently I remembered that that was me.  My, my, how I've missed putting points on the pointless.  I, for one, sure hope I'm going to write more often.

I'd love to stay and chat but let me, for now, just ask these questions:

I'm working on a project that involves some diaries from 1925.  Mentioned in the diaries is a telegram codebook. As I understand it, in those pay-by-the-word days, this codebook helped you save money on telegrams.  You'd say, "porkchops and applesauce, Sweetheart,"  and that would mean a whole lot more.  I have never seen such a book...me, a former railroad telegrapher.  Anybody know where to find one?

Second question:  Can someone give me a name and address for  a historian or archivist at the Renault Corporate HQ in France?  I've been to www.Renault.com and that helped not at all.

I'll explain what I'm up to in a future post, for I have yet more questions to ask.  Wish I could say I'll see you in Denver but I can't get away.

Cryptically,

Michael "Carrots and Onions" Tarabulski

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