Or were they just spam?

The First Marconigrams Sent Across the Atlantic to The New York World Newspaper

London (via Marconi wireless via Glace Bay, N. S.), Oct. 17, 1907.

To the New York World:

Greetings to the Americans through the New York World in the words of Burns:

Man to man the world o’er
Shall brithers be for a’ that.

(Lord) LOREBURN, Lord High Chancellor of England.

London (via Marconi wireless via Glace Bay, N. S.), Oct. 17, 1907.

To the New York World:

Greater miracles than those of old bewilder us to-day.

(Andrew) CARNEGIE.

London (via Marconi wireless via Glace Bay, N. S.), Oct. 17, 1907.

To the New York World:

I earnestly trust that this marvellous discovery may tend to enrich the mutual affection and confidence between the two great branches of the English-speaking [race.]

(Ven. William Macdonald) SINCLAIR,

Archdeacon of London and Chairman of the Pilgrims’ Committee.

Sounds like that last guy’s winding up for a sales pitch.

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