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> Mass communication, mass travel, etc. were all non existent

Telegraphy had allowed current news to rapidly flow around the globe for decades.




True, but the information still had to be conveyed from the nearest telegraph office to your home (the 19th century "last mile problem")


That last mile problem, getting news from telegraphs to people's homes, was solved by newspapers. e.g. The Daily Telegraph[1] is specifically named for that purpose.

They were printing reports from all over the world.

As an example the modern sporting event the Tour de France was started by a newspaper in 1903 and was reported on daily. That wouldn't really have been viable financially without mass communication. In fact the race exists solely to generate those reports.

There's a very good book called The Victorian Internet that covers early mass communication if you're interested[2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Victorian_Internet


Weren't there also multiple daily editions of The Times and other newspapers?


I don’t think the monarchs ever worried much about how much underlying work was required for things to happen for them.

That kind of improvement benefits poor people.

It’s like the opposite of tariffs or sanctions: the people at the top are unaffected.


Meanwhile;

> A mix of June and 19th, Juneteenth has become a day to commemorate the end of slavery in America. Despite the fact that President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was issued more than two years earlier on January 1, 1863, a lack of Union troops in the rebel state of Texas made the order difficult to enforce.

> Some historians blame the lapse in time on poor communication in that era, while others believe Texan slave-owners purposely withheld the information.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abolition-of-sla...


Had a morning and afternoon post though. For telegrams specifically at least I believe you could pick them up by dropping in on the off-chance too?


Maybe more importantly, broadcast radio had started few years earlier (1919-1920ish)




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