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I deleted my comment to rewrite it: what is available on Project Gutenberg is a 2017 transcription of a booklet dated January 1st 1940. The footnotes appear to be part of that publication - note that they appear on page number 47 of 48. The note about "ahoy" was therefore presumably added by the anonymous editor who prepared this booklet for distribution by AT&T, along with the biography of Watson (including his date of death), the statistics (which go past that death date), and probably also the images.
– IMSoP
Commented Aug 14, 2022 at 16:37
@IMSoP yes, the footnotes appear above "PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. 1-1-40" and above the section "Transcriber’s Notes" which mention what has been altered from the original. The whole is a biography of Watson's involvement, whose own words presumably end with "I thank you."
– Weather Vane
Commented Aug 14, 2022 at 16:46

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