NYT News Wire recordings from 1951

 The newspapers got their stories across the wire via telegraph right up to the 1950s.

These audio recordings and transcriptions were created in 1951. 
I found the recordings created for the Morse Telegraph Club at the Internet Archive here:

https://archive.org/details/NewYorkTimesMorseWireLastDay1951

The speed these old time telegraphers could send and receive at was phenomenal, the speeds here are a steady 60 WPM!

To give you a feel for the speed here is the first message, a recording of a news story sent by telegraphers Jack Goulette and Ralph Cahall over The New York Times Morse wire to the Times telegraph office in New York, at a speed up to 60 words a minute. Dan Reeves was the receiver in New York.:

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A transcription of the message follows, converted from the Phillips code that the telegraphers were actually sending of course.

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No. FOUR ....LEND— LEASE....(WAGGONER)

    WASHINGTON, April 7~—-The United States has formally demanded
again, in the face of a flat refusal, that the Soviet Union return
some 670 ships this government made available to its Russian ally
under the Lend~Lease agreement of the last war.

The demand was made on the highest level, with a note from
Secretary of State Dean Acheson handed yesterday to Alexander S.
Panyushkin, the Soviet Ambassador. The message answered a Soviet note
of March 21 stating that the United States had agreed to sell the ships
and declining therefore to consider their return.

Also for a second time, Secretary Acheson asked that United
States representatives be allowed to examine the vessels described by
Moscow as "badly worn out and for the most part unfit for navigation
in the open sea."

The Secretary emphasized that “the title to these vessels
remains in the Government of the United States regardless of their
condition." He therefore repeated the request that this government
be permitted to "examine all unserviceable vessels in order to
determine their ultimate disposition.”

By citing various joint statements and agreements between
Washington and Moscow going back four years, Mr. Acheson denied that
the United States had “agreed” to sell the ships to the Soviet Union.

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                    Huston

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Imagine working at that speed all day!

To add to the fun, these expert telegraphers could receive the message and translate it from the Phillips code in their head and type it into the their Mills IN REAL TIME!!!

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Ciao
KJ Editor
and AlbertaMTCwire Wire-Chief