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(BOISE) – It’s been on the books for over a century, and Idaho lawmakers have finally declared the telegraph obsolete. Up until this week, Idaho law made the failure to report the late arrival of trains via telegraph a misdemeanor, punishable by a $100 fine. Tuesday’s 63-0 vote was part of the Idaho Supreme Court’s effort to remove archaic language from the state code.

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