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The violence started in Würzburg in Bavaria, and traveling faster than the speed of news in those pretelegraph times, it spread northward all the way to Hamburg.
Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009
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With wonder, the nation learned, as rapidly as news could travel in those pretelegraph days, that both men had died on July 4, the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
America's First Dynasty Richard Brookhiser 2002
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