telegraphic message
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“What hath God wrought?” was the first telegraphic message sent by Samuel F. B. Morse, dispatched from D.C. to an assistant in Baltimore in 1844, according to the Library of Congress.
From Washington Times • Oct. 25, 2022
If If the government can carry a letter across the continent for two cents, why cannot it send a telegraphic message correspondingly cheap?
From Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays by Washburn, L. K. (Lemuel Kelley)
At this crisis a telegraphic message arrived from Lawless himself.
From Grit Lawless by Young, F.E. Mills
It was that quick telegraphic message, the base innuendo which stung and lashed him more than a thousand words.
From The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon by Cody, H. A. (Hiram Alfred)
Only one day of happiness and life, and then that crushing blow which met her the very day after her marriage, in the words of the telegraphic message, "Mr. Harmer is dead."
From A Search For A Secret (Vol 2 of 3) A Novel by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
