telegraph

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The songs Stewart wrote carried the flavor of the roadhouse scene; Mr. McDonough likens one of his records to “a beer-stained telegraph from a honky-tonk foxhole.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Patla compared the situation to communication before the telegraph, when handwritten letters crossed oceans by ship and replies took weeks or months to return.

From Science Daily • Dec. 30, 2025

I had tried to telegraph to the group that coming back was not a given, and I think the fact that a long time that elapsed also made that clear.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025

The famed Pony Express, which rushed the news of Abraham Lincoln’s election to California in November 1860, went out of business less than a year later, after the telegraph made coast-to-coast communications infinitely faster.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025

It would take the cavalry, alerted by telegraph and traveling by steamboat, just one day to travel that distance.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson