Telegraph Invention

October 17, 1900, Harrisburg (PA) Telegraph

Invention comes to Menasha.  Not to be undone by inventions that provided notoriety to Menasha with improvements for paper making and the like, Mr. Landgraf provides a silent receiver for the telegraph, with applications for deaf use as well.  In association with the American Novelty Company of Milwaukee, Landgraf assigned the market rights to the firm for one year with royalty and planned to submit patents to Canada, England, and Germany as well depending upon the outcome of this relationship. 

At first notion, I assumed George was related to Valentine Landgraf, hotel proprietor for the hotel that sat on the grounds of the present Brin building for forty plus years, but my research has not yielded a positive outcome to this idea.  I DO know he is not Valentine's son, as his obituary reports his only son's name was Alex.  I shall continue to research, unless someone comes forward with info I do not possess.