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DENVER -- For more than 150 years, messages of joy, sorrow and success came in signature yellow envelopes hand delivered by a courier. Now the Western Union telegram is officially a thing of the past.

There is a Western Union office in a shopping center near my house, and every time I go to the grocery store and see the big yellow sign, which is familiar to those who remember the iconic company, I ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! This 1956 Western Union Telegraph Company film depicts the various uses of the telegram. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th ...

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Last month Western Union was sued for $3,600,000 on the ground that under an obscure New Jersey statute of 1877 the company had participated in a lottery by transmitting chain telegrams. Last week in ...

The most colossally stupid and historically consequential mismanagement of classified war plans in an electronic transmission belongs to Arthur Zimmermann, the German foreign minister who dispatched ...