telegraph
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The strike took place in a now-forgotten farming village, at which Garza’s archival research revealed through telegraph conversations that activist-turned-influential Mexican novelist José Revueltas had in fact been present.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
Patla compared the situation to communication before the telegraph, when handwritten letters crossed oceans by ship and replies took weeks or months to return.
From Science Daily • Dec. 30, 2025
Such episodes tend to be short-lived, and the BOJ had been careful to telegraph its latest move.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
The famed Pony Express, which rushed the news of Abraham Lincoln’s election to California in November 1860, went out of business less than a year later, after the telegraph made coast-to-coast communications infinitely faster.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025
Squat buildings, telegraph poles, and palms scrolled by.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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