The Telegram Era - STOP, Western Union and the Last Telegram For 160 years the telegram was the fastest words on Earth, and its strange dialect - all capitals, no full stops, STOP everywhere - came straight from Morse code economics. Why STOP Every word cost money and a handwritten period could vanish or be misread. STOP was unmissable and counted once, so it marched through billions of messages: ARRIVING TUESDAY STOP MEET ME AT STATION STOP. The long goodbye Western Union delivered its last US telegram on 27 January 2006. India held out longest: when its state service closed in July 2013, crowds queued for one last STOP - the final chapter of the Morse century. Translate any text to Morse code, play it as sound and download the audio free at: https://morsecodeworks.com/