DENVER -- For more than 150 years, messages of joy, sorrow and success came in signature yellow envelopes hand delivered by a courier. Now the Western Union telegram is officially a thing of the past.

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Last month Western Union was sued for $3,600,000 on the ground that under an obscure New Jersey statute of 1877 the company had participated in a lottery by transmitting chain telegrams. Last week in ...

Although he was run down by an automobile while on his way to deliver a message, Daniel Murray, a messenger boy for the Western Union Telegram Company, could think only of completing his task. Just ...