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    <abstract id="aspace_8afe06cbf7f20db25e64ee7c5d50d428">Incorporation certificate issued by the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to National Telephone Company of Pennsylvania. The Wheeling based company was authorized as a foreign corporation to operate in Pennsylvania with an office in Washington.</abstract>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], National Telephone Company of Pennsylvania, Incorporation Certificate, A&amp;M 3171, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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