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Rivals clash as saloonists shrink amid police blue badge shift
In a tense scene signers of reform embrace professional men merchants mill men and others while police nearly all adopt the blue ribbon leaving saloon keepers in despair some quitting the business others planning to move away. Peter Cummings drove the Erie Canal boat Young Lion of the West in 1826 with DeWitt Clinton at the bow.
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Peter Cummings
Buffalo
Erie Canal
DeWitt Clinton
Cummings
Pendleton
Tonawanda