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Newspaper
Elkhart Observer
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1872
Page
4
Excerpted from Good Words contrasts a Northern political rally stance with a fairy tale about a stepmother who drives her stepdaughter away. The tale follows the girl surviving in a magical forest house guarded by animals and a disguised royal son, who marries her, and ends with the revelation of the stepmother’s malicious scheming.
The article reports the 1870 apportionment of electoral votes with a total of 294 electors, noting Mississippi Texas and Virginia did not vote. It lists state allocations across New England, Middle States, and Western and Pacific states, including Indiana at 11 and Pennsylvania at 29, among others, and explains the electoral college size equals the Senate and House combined.
A fragment describes a speaker urging mercy, a statement about endurance, and a character leaping into a well, suggesting a dramatic moment without full context or identifiable names. The source text is incomplete and yields only this brief, oblique incident.
The 1872 Republican platform proclaims a record of Civil War victory, emancipation, equal citizenship, and fiscal steadiness. It calls for constitutional amendments, civil rights, fair taxation, anti patronage reforms, land for settlers, protection of labor, pensions for soldiers, immigration support, and support for Grant and Wilson as leaders.
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