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The Blade ePaper

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The Blade Newspaper Information

The Blade is a daily newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, in the United States, first published on December 19, 1835.

David Ross Locke gained national fame for the paper during the Civil War era by writing under the pen name Petroleum V. Nasby. Writing under the pen name, Locke wrote satires ranging on topics from slavery to the Civil War to temperance. President Abraham Lincoln was fond of the Nasby satires and sometimes quoted them. In 1867 Locke bought The Blade.