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coast telegraph
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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the spreading of news by word of mouth, originally by Indian runner.
See: moccasin telegraph
Quotations
1964
. . . the Indians on this coast had what the early white settlers referred to as "coast telegraph."