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Article: Early telecom tapped out history.(Western Union Financial Services )
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- The Denver Post (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- February 2, 2006
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Byline: Aldo Svaldi
Feb. 2--Western Union telegram -- STOP.
With no fanfare, Western Union Financial Services last week sent its final telegram, ending a 155-year-old service that marked important events in the lives of millions of people around the world.
The last 10 Western Union messages that were sent Friday included birthday wishes, a birth notice, condolences on a death, and several people attempting to make history by sending the last Western Union telegram, said Victor Chayet, a spokesman for the Greenwood Village-based company, a subsidiary of First Data Corp.
"Telegrams represent the last vestigial part of the company that we ...