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In 1856 the Cleveland LEADER file contained 213,868 column
inches. The number of inches properly coming within the scope of
the Digest and represented in this volume is 21,720. The distribution
of the subject matter in the material not digested is as follows:
National News
State News
Foreign News
Advertising
Statistics
Fiction
Legal
15%
9%
2%
70%
1%
1/2%
1/2%
Miscellaneous 2%
Reference Line - Oct. 16, 1856; ed:2/1 - indicates that the
article following this reference was an editorial taken from the
LEADER of Oct. 16, 1856, page two, column one. An "adv" in the
reference line indicates that the abstract was made from an advertise­
ment. The number in parenthesis at the end of the abstract indicates
the number of column inches in the original newspaper article.
Newspaper files used in abstracting were made avnilable througb
the courtesy of Mr. Wallace Cathcart of the Western Reserve Historical
Society, Miss Linda Eastman of the Cleveland Public Library, the
Cleveland City Coundl, Mr. Louis Seltzer of the Cleveland PRESS, and
Mr. Earle Martin of the Cleveland NEWS. Miss Mari lla Freeman and Mr.
William Lippert of the Cleveland Public Library and the City Clerk's
Office have been of great assistance.
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