Comment by Symbiote

The code referred to is a "commercial code". There's a scan of a page from a 1910 code on Wikipedia.

Amazing that a phrase like "Confined yesterday, Twins, both dead, Mother not expected to live" was given a single code word ("Annosus").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_code_(communication...

"Unicode — The Universal Telegraphic Code Book" https://archive.org/details/unicodeuniversa00unkngoog/mode/2...