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At the time, the Tana family was vacationing on a remote Yugoslav island when a telegram arrived: “The restaurant burned down. Call me, Pearl,” recalls Katerina Tana, one of Dan Tana’s daughters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Within hours of carrying the first telegram across the English Channel in 1850, the earliest “submarine telegraph”—27 miles of copper wire wrapped in a rubbery substance called gutta percha—was broken by a fishing trawler.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

The telegram advised of the need for "careful and sometimes strict media management", and "initial proposals should contain the outline of a media strategy".

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

"The telegram boy said, 'I'm sorry to tell you, but this is bad news'," he says.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025

In the early 1940s, the United States managed to intercept a mountain of cable telegram traffic from Soviet embassies.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Stefansson’s telegrams to the dead men’s families are perfunctory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

ProjectXplore began investigating in September 2024, researching records such as ships' logs, telegrams and charts.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025

The White House was flooded with more than 300,000 letters and telegrams denouncing his life sentence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024

At its center, a young, unnamed telegraph operator watches as the beautiful, married Lady Bradeen sends flurries of telegrams, hoping that no one will notice the messages to the dashing Captain Everard.

From Slate ● May 27, 2024

In the weeks that followed, no fewer than four million letters, telegrams, phone calls, postcards, and other expressions of support poured into the Republican Party’s headquarters.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Toward the end of 1926, Herman Mankiewicz, the screenwriter who would co-father “Citizen Kane,” telegrammed his friend Ben Hecht, the newspaperman who was finding himself between gigs and behind on his rent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023

“I didn’t know what to do with myself. I telegrammed back saying there was no way I wanted to be connected to that show.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023

Nesbit had a serious relationship with the author Donald Barthelme before she married Gilman, and one day, Barthelme telegrammed her from Europe.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023

At one point, after the mega-success of the "Ringo" LP, no less than John Lennon famously telegrammed Starr, saying “Congratulations. How dare you? And please write me a hit song.”

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2019

President Wilson telegrammed Carrie Chapman Catt to congratulate her; he did not contact Alice Paul.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

In 1916, Charles Evans Hughes waited two weeks before telegramming his concession to Woodrow Wilson, who noted that the message was “a little moth-eaten when it got here but quite legible.”

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2012