Chain telegram.  "Wire five dollars first name,"  "Copy five kindred spirits." List omitted. US, 1935.

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Chain telegram stop chain by wire should spread like fire stop wire five dollars first name comma remove top name comma add yours stop wire copy five kindred spirits.

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Published: Dunkirk Evening Observer (Dunkirk, New York), 17 May 1935, p. 6.  "Rep. Fred L. Crawford, R. Mich. reports receipt of the first Washington "chain telegram. The telegram read: (above text). Outlook for the telegram chain doesn't look so good. Crawford broke it." Entered by DWV, March 13, 2014.

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