from a 1913 advertisement in A Satchel Guide to Europe:
 

This is a cipher code containing over 9,000 sentences on Business and Social Matters and is invaluable to travelers and business men who use the land and ocean telegraph lines.  It covers a wide range of topics, such as "Arrival", "Departure", "Accidents", "Financial", "Congratulations", "Letters of Credit", "Drafts", "Insurance", "Buying", and "Selling", "Condition of Market", Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Chicago stocks, "Standing of Firms", "Shipping", "Shipments", "Letters and Telegrams", and a large number of Miscellaneous Sentences that can be worked into any telegram.  It saves its cost ten times over in one message.  One code word covers sentences ranging from two to seventy words.

Price per copy, in cloth, fifty cents; by mail, four cents extra.
 

Published by ADAMS CABLE CODEX
                      Box 1870, BOSTON, MASS.