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It's interesting that my initial thoughts on telegrams were that they were all-cap, sans-serif and condensed. But, looking at examples, I see both all-cap and mixed case, serif, and the characters are actually pretty spaced out.
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If you want to be historically accurate (and why not) it probably depends where the book is set and when. The only telegrams I've ever personally seen are those to my mum and dad when they got married in 1950 in the UK. Probably a good match for a Lord Peter Wimsey book. From memory, they're all caps and like this:
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