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  • I've informed herself that no matter how I actually enter the afterlife, the cause of death in the Press Telegram is to be given as "Shot trying to escape."

    Obituaries John 2008

  • I have often thought that the great thing about that voluntary fund of the Telegram is not what you and I and business houses and clubs are giving, but what every day, the little school houses, away back in the country, the church clubs, are contributing.

    Canada In Crises—As Seen By An Australian 1941

  • The story, which ran in the New York Evening Telegram, is almost comic in it’s old-fashionedness, with its mix of 19th Century genteelisms, tried and true journalistic cliches, the obviously doctored quotes --- although I’m sure as an actress Marion was adept at speaking in character offstage as well as on --- and the mustache-twirling salaciousness.

    Lance Mannion: 2010

  • The story, which ran in the New York Evening Telegram, is almost comic in it’s old-fashionedness, with its mix of 19th Century genteelisms, tried and true journalistic cliches, the obviously doctored quotes --- although I’m sure as an actress Marion was adept at speaking in character offstage as well as on --- and the mustache-twirling salaciousness.

    From Bohemia to the battlefields and back again, our dainty heroine describes her adventures 2010

  • This took me to France, and so the Telegram was the first Canadian newspaper personally represented on the Western Front.

    War With the Blinds Down 1939

  • Ben and Richard later founded a martial arts dojo in Manhattan, and Richard would go on to battle international threats such as Telegram Sam, the Preying Mantis, the League of Assassins, and eventually his former superior, Barney Ling.

    1970's Flashback: Richard Dragon, Kung Fu Fighter Chuck Wells 2009

  • Ben and Richard later founded a martial arts dojo in Manhattan, and Richard would go on to battle international threats such as Telegram Sam, the Preying Mantis, the League of Assassins, and eventually his former superior, Barney Ling.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Chuck Wells 2009

  • Someplace in the 121st Evacuation Hospital there were two file trays for the records of incoming patients — "Telegram" and "No Telegram."

    1968 Haldeman, Joe & Fields, Trinity 1984

  • Our guest of honour, Miss Margaret Aitken, is known to all readers of the "Telegram" through her column "Between You and Me" which has been an outstanding feature of that paper for the past 8 years.

    The Birth of A Nation 1949

  • "No. Meaning Parker, and the whole 'Telegram' outfit."

    The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

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