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The printed editions included 678 editorials from 76 cities and localities. The table below, organizes the cities by state and also serves to quantify the numbers of editorials from each city or locality that was published in the original series.

 

State City # Eds.
Alabama Florence
1
  Montgomery
4
Connecticut Hartford
6
  New Haven
4
District of Columbia Washington
14
Georgia Augusta
10
  Savannah
1
Illinois Aurora
1
  Chicago
21
  Joliet
1
  Peoria
5
  Quincy
4
  Rockford
3
  Springfield
8
Indiana Cannelton
1
  Evansville
3
  Fort Wayne
1
  Indianapolis
12
  Muncie
1
  New Albany
2
  Salem
1
  Wabash
1
Iowa Burlington
1
  Davenport
2
  Des Moines
4
  Dubuque
7
  Guttenberg
1
  Muscatine
1
  Sioux City
1
Kansas Manhattan City
1
Kentucky Lexington
7
  Louisville
18
Louisiana New Orleans
66
Maine Augusta
1
  Bangor
3
  Paris
2
  Portland
5
Massachusetts Boston
27
  Charlestown
2
  Greenfield
1
  Lowell
1
  Lynn
1
  Newburyport
3
  Roxbury
2
  Springfield
5
  Worcester
3
Michigan Constantine
1
  Detroit
10
  Grand Rapids
2
  Niles
1
Minn. Chatfield
1
Minnesota Henderson
1
  Saint Paul
1
  St. Paul
1
Mississippi Vicksburg
1
Missouri St. Louis
4
New Hampshire Concord
5
  Manchester
1
New Jersey Camden
1
  Jersey City
6
  Newark
9
  Paterson
1
  Trenton
3
New York Albany
8
  Brooklyn
3
  Buffalo
13
  Ithaca
1
  New York
70
  Rochester
2
  Syracuse
4
  Troy
5
  Utica
5
North Carolina Raleigh
5
  Wilmington
4
Ohio Akron
1
  Bellefontaine
1
  Bucyrus
1
  Canton
1
  Cincinnati
28
  Circleville
1
  Cleveland
6
  Columbus
13
  Dayton
1
  Hamilton
1
  Sandusky
2
  St. Clairsville
1
Pennsylvania Allentown
1
  Bedford
1
  Easton
2
  Erie
2
  Harrisburg
4
  Lancaster
3
  Norristown
1
  Philadelphia
38
  Pittsburgh
9
  Pottsville
1
  Reading
1
  Wilkes-Barre
2
Rhode Island Newport
2
  Providence
16
South Carolina Charleston
12
  Columbia
3
Tennessee Gallatin
1
  Nashville
18
Vermont Burlington
3
  Montpelier
3
Virginia Charlottesville
4
  Richmond
24
[West] Va. Charleston
1
  Martinsburg
1
  Wellsburg
3
  Wheeling
6
Wisconsin Elkhorn
1
  Kenosha
2
  Madison
6
  Milwaukee
9
  Oshkosh
1

 

 

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