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Newspaper
Ashtabula Telegraph
Location
Ashtabula, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1876
Page
1
Fragmentary, hostile rhetoric targets Black voters with threats and warnings while urging support for Tilden and Hendricks. The garbled text suggests a political intimidation attempt, possibly tied to a rally or pamphlet distribution, referencing a supper ticket and public safety incident as context.
A fragmentary vignette follows a thirteen year old boy leaving a New York omnibus with a worn satchel. He chats with a porter, shuffles through a busy dining scene, and wonders about moving west to find a place to grow up. The piece shifts to an election day anecdote and a brief, vivid street encounter with a waiter, a clerk, and a pensioner’s reflections, ending with a slice of rural misfortune about a lost wife by a Virginia creek.
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