Extra! Cow Vindicated
Sep 12, 2020
2 minutes
By ROBERT LOERZEL
It was the original viral news story. The 1871 fire devastated Chicago just five years after telegraphs connected the United States and Europe, making it “the first instantaneously reported international news event, details of which reached an audience in the tens of millions,” Smith writes in , out October 6.
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