What was the best way to spread information? Everything from news, gossip, and emergencies
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Telegraphs and Printing Presses were common enough since the 1830s. So phone calls and newspapers.
Before the telegraph? Depends completely on distance.
For correspondence of any kind, however long it would take for your mail to be delivered by courier (on horseback).
More complex systems were common as well tho.
Smoke signals are very effective over long distances. They were especially used by precolonial native peoples; Horses are a Eurasian Animal.
In some mountainous regions, whistled languages had developed, and someone proficient in them can communicate with other speakers from miles away (in good conditions)
I wouldn’t be surprised if some codes were developed to function with horn usage as well.
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