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Telegrams officially approaching end. Blaming digital age, Indian post office, last bastion, ends all July 16. After 169 years delivering swift messages of joy and grief, telegrams in future restricted to private enterprise in Canada. No more cost-saving, witty and innovative abbreviations. Hearst to photographer complaining at absence of war: YOU FURNISH THE PICTURES I'LL FURNISH THE WAR. Evelyn Waugh in Abyssinia denying death of nurse in bombing: NURSE UNUPBLOWN. Other celebrated telegrams: WE ARE SINKING FAST from the Titanic. The misdirected HOW OLD CARY GRANT? Reply: OLD CARY GRANT FINE. HOW YOU? And the exchange between Mark Twain and his publisher: NEED 2-PAGE SHORT STORY TWO DAYS, which got the answer: NO CAN DO 2 PAGES TWO DAYS. CAN DO 30 PAGES 2 DAYS. NEED 30 DAYS TO DO 2 PAGES. Never as swift as Twitter, but somehow so much more immediate.Telegrams officially approaching end. Blaming digital age, Indian post office, last bastion, ends all July 16. After 169 years delivering swift messages of joy and grief, telegrams in future restricted to private enterprise in Canada. No more cost-saving, witty and innovative abbreviations. Hearst to photographer complaining at absence of war: YOU FURNISH THE PICTURES I'LL FURNISH THE WAR. Evelyn Waugh in Abyssinia denying death of nurse in bombing: NURSE UNUPBLOWN. Other celebrated telegrams: WE ARE SINKING FAST from the Titanic. The misdirected HOW OLD CARY GRANT? Reply: OLD CARY GRANT FINE. HOW YOU? And the exchange between Mark Twain and his publisher: NEED 2-PAGE SHORT STORY TWO DAYS, which got the answer: NO CAN DO 2 PAGES TWO DAYS. CAN DO 30 PAGES 2 DAYS. NEED 30 DAYS TO DO 2 PAGES. Never as swift as Twitter, but somehow so much more immediate.
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