How difficult was it to spoof the sender of a telegram in 1890-1920's in USA?

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There is nothing to "spoof".

Note that a telegram did not have a "sender" field to begin with. There was the office of origin, the address of the recipient, and the message. That message may or may not include the name of the sender. It was customary (so the recipient did know who that message came from), but it was not a formal requirement. Neither was it a requirement that the telegram needed to be plain text. You could conceivably send a telegram in some kind of code that would identify you to the recipient, but did not include any sender information that would be generally intelligible.

If you wanted the last word in your message to be "Hans", that was up to you and none of the operator's business, really. You might be sending the message for someone else for all the operator knew.

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