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tion of nine hundred and seventy-three. In California the town of Eureka, with a population of twenty-six hundred and thirty- nine, had three daily papers, and the town of Red Bluff, popula- tion of twenty-one hundred and six, two daily papers. Galena, Kansas, had one daily for a population of fourteen hundred and sixty-three; Greenville, Michigan, two dailies for a population of thirty-one hundred and forty-four; Olean, New York, one daily for a population of three thousand and thirty-six; Winne- mucca, Nevada, one daily for a population of seven hundred and sixty-three; and Milton, Pennsylvania, one daily for a popula- tion of twenty-one hundred and two.

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The period practically began with an impeachment of a Presi- dent of the United States and closed with a contest of one whose very election to the White House was most seriously questioned and had to be determined by an unconstitutional Electoral Com- mission distinctly partisan in bias. Under such conditions it was but natural that a somewhat inflammable press should mirror the times often at white-heat with political passion. From ma- terial of unrefined ore the editors fashioned their papers under a forced draft that left no time for the cooling process. Yet the centrifugal force threw out much of the slag and left the news- paper nearer the pattern given by Samuel Bowles, of The Spring- field Republican.