7,000 Miles By Wireless.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 13, 1913:
Cairo Hears Key West — 500 Miles More, and All the World May Hear Together.
    KEY WEST, Fla., March 12.— Capt. Hayden. commandant of the Key West naval station, has received a letter from Cairo, Egypt, saying that the Lloyds wireless operators in that city had on numerous occasions copied messages sent from the Key West station. It is said that this breaks all wireless records, the distance being more than 7,000 statute miles, or more than 500 miles further than a former world's record.