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In the 1800’s in some large eastern cities the political bosses would send men out to get the street and homeless people and bring them to the fire stations. They would hold them there, feed them, give them their drugs or alcohol until the election. On the day of the election they would tell the people they had how to vote. In Baltimore the last known reference to Poe was in one of these election roundups. A few days after the election he died.

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