End of era - STOP - telegrams are gone

Thursday, February 2, 2006

Back what seems like a hundred years ago, I was helping a reporter for the old Globe-Democrat newspaper in St. Louis on a story about a prominent politician in southeast Missouri. Once the story was complete, the big city reporter sent me my first telegram. It was a brief congratulatory message in a yellow envelope. I thought I was in tall cotton.

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