LOL western union. Greetings by wire are so much more personal than... a telephone call where you can use full sentences and not limit yourself to only a few lines? a letter which is your own handwriting/typing and has your signature and can include photographs or postcards or pressed flowers or whatever?
I know! Telegrams are more personal than ads flown on the back of a biplane. Yup.
Given the options I'd actually have to agree with the ad. Long-distance phone calls would have been prohibitively expensive and there's always the pleasure of receiving communication on the day of celebration instead of days before or after like with a mailed letter.
Oh, you're right - those reasons didn't occur to me, especially since people are always making long-distance phone-calls in the old series books I read or in the old movies I watch.
"His divorce from his first wife, Debbie Reynolds, to marry his best friend's widow, Elizabeth Taylor, garnered scandalously unwelcome publicity at the time."
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Date: 2010-03-25 06:01 pm (UTC)I know! Telegrams are more personal than ads flown on the back of a biplane. Yup.
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Date: 2010-03-25 06:24 pm (UTC)Debby stop
I'm a lying cheating scumbag. stop
Getting Divorce. stop
Love Eddie
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