How did news spread to underdeveloped rural areas 100 years ago?

>>2456025
it didn't. it still doesn't in some pockets.

>>2456025
there was telephone, telegraph, newspapers and rail

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>>2456025

Exactly 100 years ago was close to the zenith of passenger rail travel and railroads, which had a presence in pretty much every rural community, were the carriers of mail. Even without mail, you could send and receive telegrams from the nearest railroad station, which had instantaneous transmissions. Even as early as 1869, when the Transcontinental Railroad was completed, a message was sent at the exact moment the last spike was driven to New York, Chicago, and San Francisco the moment it happened, and mass celebrations occurred in those cities that same day.

Now, 200 years ago, that's a different story entirely. Mail would have been delivered the very old-fashioned way on horseback, you could for several weeks without getting any mail, and when mail did come, the mail deliverer had to ask around where the recipients of the mail lived, since formal street addresses did not exist yet in the wilderness.

>>2456025
I'm assuming you mean further back, say 400 years. Churches, primary.