item: #1 of 41
          id: 12183
      author: Kinzie, John H., Mrs.
       title: Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest
        date: None
       words: 114696
      flesch: 72
     summary: Its extent was first brought to our knowledge by those who came in little parties begging for food. Let me tell you, madame, replied he, with great _naïveté_, it is not so easy a thing to cheat the Indians as you imagine.
    keywords: appearance; arrived; bank; boat; captain; chapter; chicago; chief; children; company; country; course; day; days; family; father; fire; footnote; fort; fox; friends; general; good; green; ground; half; hand; head; home; horses; house; husband; indians; journey; kinzie; lake; leave; length; life; like; little; lodge; man; men; miles; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; officers; old; party; people; place; point; poor; prairie; present; return; river; set; shee; thought; time; village; visit; water; way; white; winnebago; woman; work; years; young
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        item: #2 of 41
          id: 15221
      author: Addams, Jane
       title: A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil
        date: None
       words: 40417
      flesch: 48
     summary: The reports which its twenty field officers daily brought to its main office adjoining Hull House became to me a revelation of the dangers implicit in city conditions and of the allurements which are designedly placed around many young girls in order to draw them into an evil life. Were the streets kept clear, many young girls would be spared familiar knowledge that such a method of earning money is open to them.
    keywords: business; chicago; children; city; control; day; evil; family; girl; home; house; human; life; living; man; moment; money; mother; new; number; order; people; police; protection; public; slave; state; time; traffic; vice; victims; wages; women; work; working; years
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        item: #3 of 41
          id: 17820
      author: Delaney, Lucy A. (Lucy Ann)
       title: From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom
        date: None
       words: 9208
      flesch: 73
     summary: With mother, father and sister, a pleasant home and surroundings, what happier child than I! Having been brought up in a free State, mother had learned much to her advantage, which would have been impossible in a slave State, and which she now proposed to turn to account for the benefit of her daughter.
    keywords: bates; berry; child; freedom; girl; judge; mitchell; mother; mrs; slavery; time; years
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        item: #4 of 41
          id: 17890
      author: Parrish, Randall
       title: When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country
        date: None
       words: 89602
      flesch: 81
     summary: It was a foolish speech, and she met it bravely, with heightened color and a flash of dark eyes. De Croix had travelled widely, and had seen a great variety of life both in camp and court.
    keywords: bank; black; blood; burns; camp; captain; croix; dark; de croix; dearborn; death; eyes; face; father; fear; fort; french; girl; god; good; great; hair; half; hand; head; heart; indian; left; life; lips; mademoiselle; man; moment; monsieur; night; old; open; red; river; sand; savages; thought; time; voice; water; way; wayland; wells; white; woman; words; yonder
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        item: #5 of 41
          id: 21251
      author: MacNaul, Willard C. (Willard Carey)
       title: The Jefferson-Lemen Compact The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and Northern Territory with Related Documents 1781-1818
        date: None
       words: 20973
      flesch: 63
     summary: True to his promise to Mr. Lemen that slavery should {p.37} never prevail in the Northwestern Territory or any part of it, he quietly directed his leading confidential friends in Congress to steadily defeat Gen. Harrison's pro-slavery petitions for the repeal of the anti-slavery clause in the Ordinance of 1787, and his friendly aid to Rev. James Lemen, Sr., and friends made the anti-slavery contest of Bethel Church a success in saving the state to freedom. Sketch of Rev. James Lemen, Sr., by J. M. Peck........ 52 XVI.
    keywords: baptist; church; family; father; friends; history; illinois; james lemen; jefferson; lemen; lemen family; new; notes; peck; rev; slavery; state; territory; time; years
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        item: #6 of 41
          id: 23097
      author: Cullom, Shelby M. (Shelby Moore)
       title: Fifty Years of Public Service Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois
        date: None
       words: 145850
      flesch: 61
     summary: Both Seward and Chase fancied they were greater men than Lincoln, and each of them, at the beginning at least, entertained the idea that on him rested the responsibility of the administration. Great crises produce great men.
    keywords: act; administration; bill; blaine; candidate; chairman; chicago; cleveland; committee; congress; constitution; convention; country; court; day; democratic; election; foreign; friends; general; good; government; governor; grant; high; history; home; hon; house; illinois; john; judge; justice; law; legislature; life; lincoln; logan; man; mckinley; member; men; national; new; nomination; office; party; people; place; position; power; president; president lincoln; question; railroad; relations; republican; right; secretary; senate; senator; session; springfield; states; states senate; subject; thought; time; treaties; treaty; union; united states; vote; war; washington; way; world; years
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        item: #7 of 41
          id: 26561
      author: Stillwell, Leander
       title: The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
        date: None
       words: 103846
      flesch: 75
     summary: I hunted them up on this occasion and laid down on the ground and took a long, big drink out of the spring for the sake of old times. The morning of the Fourth of July opened serene and peaceful, more so, in fact, than in old times at home, for with us not even the popping of a fire-cracker was heard.
    keywords: army; battle; big; boat; bolivar; boys; camp; cars; cavalry; chapter; close; co.; command; company; confederate; country; course; day; days; duty; enemy; evening; fellow; felt; field; fire; gen; general; going; good; ground; hand; home; illinois; infantry; kind; later; left; life; line; looking; man; march; miles; military; morning; murfreesboro; near; north; officers; order; place; railroad; rear; regiment; right; river; rock; service; small; soldier; sort; stillwell; things; thought; time; town; train; troops; war; way; woods; years
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        item: #8 of 41
          id: 31615
      author: Turner-Zimmermann, Jean
       title: Chicago's Black Traffic in White Girls
        date: None
       words: 13760
      flesch: 58
     summary: Agents are continually at work obtaining young girls, the prisoner said. Some of them are engaged in importation, but apparently they prey rather upon young girls whom they find on the street, in the dance-halls, and similar places, and who, by the methods already indicated--love-making and pretense of marriage--they deceive and ruin.
    keywords: american; business; chicago; children; city; day; girls; home; house; life; new; place; prostitution; slave; street; vice; white; women; work; years; york
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        item: #9 of 41
          id: 32017
      author: Brown, Andrew
       title: Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry Roster and Record, April 24, 1861-July 16, 1865
        date: None
       words: 16139
      flesch: 80
     summary: In August reported to hospital, on Bedloe Island, from which he was discharged November 20, 1862, and it is the regret of Comrade Pierson that he was not with Company K, 20th Illinois Regiment, during the whole war. At the last annual reunion of the association of the survivors of the 20th Illinois Regiment, held in Chicago September 8, 1893, I was assigned the duty of preparing a roster of Company K. This little publication is the result of my efforts to perform that duty.
    keywords: april; army; battle; company; comrade; county; discharged; dollars; good; illinois; july; june; kendall; man; month; newark; pension; rate; regiment; republican; service; shot; time; years; york
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        item: #10 of 41
          id: 3253
      author: Lincoln, Abraham
       title: The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete
        date: None
       words: 363
      flesch: 73
     summary: This archive of Project Gutenberg eBooks in the files directory (see instruction #3) also includes, in addition to the usual HTML files for your computer, two sets of mobile viewer files for Kindles, Nooks and others which use .mobi or .epub formats. Then double-click on 3253-h; you will see several directories: you may rename the directory named FILES to any name you wish, such as LINCOLN.
    keywords: directory
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        item: #11 of 41
          id: 32533
      author: Hunt, Henry M.
       title: The Crime of the Century; Or, The Assassination of Dr. Patrick Henry Cronin
        date: None
       words: 183124
      flesch: 71
     summary: He told Mr. Sullivan plainly that he was opposed to granting so large a sum of money for any purpose whatever, but he was willing to abide by the decision of other men who had as close a knowledge as himself of the needs of the order at home and abroad. I believe that men who are trying to get the secrets of people, who are trying to elevate themselves should be exterminated, and I gained that opinion from the reports I had heard, especially from Timothy Crean, who is now dead, and who with other men had been instrumental in scattering this information, which, as I now believe, was scattered for the removal of Dr. Cronin.
    keywords: alexander; attorney; avenue; away; beggs; blood; body; burke; camp; carlson; case; chicago; city; clan; committee; conspiracy; cottage; coughlin; court; crime; cronin; day; death; defendants; defense; doctor; doubt; evidence; fact; find; frank; friends; furniture; gael; gentlemen; good; guilty; henry cronin; home; horse; irish; john; judge; jury; kunze; lake; law; left; life; little; long; man; martin; matter; members; men; money; mrs; murder; new; night; o'clock; o'sullivan; officer; order; organization; page; patrick; people; physician; place; police; question; read; remember; room; stand; state; story; street; testimony; time; trial; trunk; view; way; witnesses; work; years
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        item: #12 of 41
          id: 32843
      author: Raymond, Evelyn
       title: The Sun Maid: A Story of Fort Dearborn
        date: None
       words: 74228
      flesch: 90
     summary: Poor little Sun Maid. To little Gaspar, in his memories, it seemed but a moment's transition from a laughing group about a well-spread table to a scene of horror.
    keywords: abel; away; boy; chief; child; children; come; dark; day; eyes; face; father; fort; gaspar; girl; good; great; hand; head; heart; home; horse; indian; kitty; life; maid; man; men; mercy; mother; new; osceolo; partridge; people; place; ride; right; spirit; sun; sun maid; things; time; wahneenah; white; woman; young
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        item: #13 of 41
          id: 33125
      author: Walter, Alice Hall
       title: Wild Birds in City Parks Being hints on identifying 145 birds, prepared primarily for the spring migration in Lincoln Park, Chicago
        date: None
       words: 14805
      flesch: 89
     summary: 604.) Streaked; ashy on head and neck; white chin; _black throat patch_; _yellow breast_; white belly; _line over eye, yellow_; wings show chestnut brown; female has less yellow and no throat patch. Bill small; closely resembles the _Hairy Woodpecker_ but is _scarcely larger_ than the _English Sparrow_ and has the outer tail-feathers _barred with black_.
    keywords: birds; black; blue; breast; brown; eye; female; gray; head; neck; red; sides; song; sparrow; streaked; tail; throat; warbler; white; wings; yellow
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        item: #14 of 41
          id: 33773
      author: Read, Opie Percival
       title: A Yankee from the West: A Novel
        date: None
       words: 74175
      flesch: 95
     summary: Men never see killing features in man, his wife replied. What sort of looking man is he?
    keywords: 12mo; bill; blakemore; boy; cents; cloth; day; dear; eyes; face; george; girl; good; goodwin; gunhild; hand; head; heart; home; hope; house; life; look; looking; love; man; men; milford; mind; money; mrs; new; paper; place; professor; right; road; room; saw; set; sort; stuvic; talk; thing; thought; time; want; way; wife; woman; work; world
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        item: #15 of 41
          id: 34266
      author: Eggleston, Edward
       title: The Graysons: A Story of Illinois
        date: None
       words: 95811
      flesch: 81
     summary: Plunkett ain't going to be dictated to by rich men like ole Tom Grayson. Tom Grayson a'n't afeerd uv nothin', nohow.
    keywords: air; albaugh; away; barbara; bob; country; court; dave; day; door; eyes; face; fer; george; git; good; half; hand; head; henry; hiram; home; house; jail; jake; janet; judge; kind; know; law; left; like; lincoln; little; lockwood; long; look; low; magill; man; mason; mccord; men; mind; money; moscow; mother; mrs; new; night; people; place; rachel; room; run; s'manthy; saw; school; set; sheriff; sovine; talk; tell; thought; time; tom; tom grayson; uncle; way; wuz; yer; young; zeke
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        item: #16 of 41
          id: 35275
      author: Beeks, James C.
       title: 30,000 Locked Out: The Great Strike of the Building Trades in Chicago
        date: None
       words: 54802
      flesch: 58
     summary: And you understand that under your own rule, No. 2, union men would have a right to refuse to work with non-union men, and to quit any job where such were employed, unless they were discharged when the request was made. A scheme was started for dropping mortar and pouring water on them in order to drive them away from any job where union men were at work.
    keywords: action; arbitration; association; bricklayers; builders; building; business; carpenters; chicago; city; committee; council; day; employers; exchange; executive; following; george; labor; master; master masons; meeting; members; men; order; organizations; pay; president; principles; right; strike; time; trades; union; work; workmen
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        item: #17 of 41
          id: 35692
      author: Fletcher, D. H.
       title: The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry
        date: None
       words: 44909
      flesch: 71
     summary: Many were river men and they were all rough fellows; so much so that they had acquired the suggestive name of The Alton Hell-Hounds. Hotaling's Speech--Capture of a masked battery--Mustered into service--Camp Butler--Fort Massac--Cairo--Bird's Point--Adventure of Harvey James--Paducah and Murray, Kentucky--Releasing imprisoned slaves 5 CHAPTER III. Embarcation from Paducah--Instance of official brutality--Capture of Fort Henry--Reconnoitering Fort Donelson--First meeting with Forest's men--Investment of Fort Donelson--McLernand's repulse --Attack by gunboats--Sortie--Grant turns the tide--Surrender by Buckner--Interest of Northern friends--Dr. Gould 25 CHAPTER IV. From Donelson to Metal Landing--Rescue from flooded camp--Pittsburg Landing--Grand review--Escort Wallace's men to Crump's Landing--The long-roll--Detailed to bring up Wallace--Hardship of men--Second day's battle--Retreat and pursuit--Dickey's cowardice--Charge against Forest's men--Pathetic incidents 45 CHAPTER V. The Corinth campaign--General Halleck--Manifestation of caution --Better to retreat than to fight--Spade-brigade--Elaborate fortifications--Battle of Davis' Bridge on the Hatchie River-- Bolivar--Death of Colonel Hogg--Water Valley--Fight at Holly Springs--Cowardice of Colonel Murphy--Foraging 59 CHAPTER VI.
    keywords: army; aug; battle; camp; captain; cavalry; charge; co.; colonel; command; company; consol; day; enemy; fort; general; grant; horse; hotaling; illinois; james; jan; john; lane; lane aug; left; lieutenant; line; logan; major; men; miles; morning; mudd; near; new; night; order; place; regiment; river; road; second; sept; service; time; trans; vicksburg; war; way
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        item: #18 of 41
          id: 36486
      author: Caswall, Henry
       title: The City of the Mormons; or, Three Days at Nauvoo, in 1842
        date: None
       words: 22569
      flesch: 68
     summary: _ H. C. KIMBALL, ORSON HYDE, Presiding Elders of said Church. The present congregation lived in the midst of wonders and signs equal to those mentioned in the Bible, and they had the blessing of revelation mainly through the medium of that chosen servant of God, Joseph Smith.
    keywords: america; book; christ; church; city; day; england; english; following; god; house; joseph; lord; man; mormon; nauvoo; new; old; page; people; place; present; prophet; saints; smith; time
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        item: #19 of 41
          id: 36591
      author: Packard, E. P. W. (Elizabeth Parsons Ware)
       title: Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity
        date: None
       words: 68707
      flesch: 69
     summary: In the winter of 1859 and 1860, there were differences of opinion between Mr. Packard and Mrs. Packard, upon matters of religion, which resulted in prolonged and vigorous debate in the home circle. Mrs. Dole, the sister of Mr. Packard, came in, leading the little daughter of Mrs. Packard, and in passing by the table occupied by Mrs. Packard and her counsel, the child stopped, went up to her mother, kissed and hugged her, and was clinging to her with all child-like fervor, when it was observed by Mrs. Dole, who snatched the child up--and bid it come away from that woman; adding, She is not fit to take care of you--I have you in my charge; and thereupon led her away.
    keywords: asylum; book; case; children; church; father; god; government; home; house; husband; illinois; insane; insanity; know; law; laws; letter; life; like; mcfarland; mother; mrs; opinion; packard; person; protection; public; right; state; subject; time; trial; truth; wife; woman; years
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        item: #20 of 41
          id: 37646
      author: Nuuttila, E. E.
       title: Forest Trees of Illinois: How to Know Them
        date: None
       words: 21607
      flesch: 82
     summary: The _bark_ differs from that of the black walnut in being light gray on branches and on the trunk of small trees, becoming darker on large trees. Britton THE wild crab apple, or prairie crab, is found throughout Illinois forming small trees 20 to 30 feet high with trunks from 6 to 12 inches in diameter.
    keywords: bark; black; brown; dark; diameter; feet; flowers; fruit; green; half; illinois; illustration; inches; leaf; leaves; light; oak; red; size; state; tree; white; wood; yellow
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        item: #21 of 41
          id: 38321
      author: Fraser, Wilber J. (Wilber John)
       title: Economy of the Round Dairy Barn
        date: None
       words: 10024
      flesch: 79
     summary: = 285.36 | = 337.81 | = 337.81 C | 44,000 @ $3.75 | 45,000 @ $3.75 | 45,000 @ $3.75 | = 165.00 | = 168.75 | = 168.75 D | | 20.88 | --+---------------------+---------------------+--------------------- E | =$799.76=| =$1023.27=| =$1233.41= ==+=====================+=====================+===================== F | =117,669= | =117,138= | =117,138= ==+=====================+=====================+===================== TABLE 1B. A: Framing lumber, B: Sheathing, siding, and flooring, C: Shingles, D: Bolts, E: Total cost of lumber, F: Content, cubic feet, ==+=====================+=========================================== | | Rectangular barn, 36 × 176-3/4 ft. | | | in barn, | =$2023.83= | =$2717.99= | =$3207.88= ========================+=============+=============+=============== Actual money saved, | | =$694.16= | =$1184.05= ------------------------+-------------+-------------+--------------- Proportional cost, | =100%= | =134%= | =158%= ========================+=============+=============+=============== The square feet of floor space in the round barn 90 feet in diameter and rectangular barn 36 × 176-3/4 feet are the same, but the cubical content of the former is more than that of the latter.
    keywords: + =; = +; = =; = |; barn; feet; round; | =
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        item: #22 of 41
          id: 38859
      author: Robbins, Edward Mott
       title: Civil War Experiences, 1862-1865 Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Buzzard Roost, Resaca, Rome, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Averysboro, Bentonville
        date: None
       words: 9313
      flesch: 75
     summary: The regiment did not lose more men than at Kennesaw but the result was far more gratifying. But to add to the Doctor's discomfort, he had at noon received orders to report to division headquarters to take charge of an ambulance train of wounded men, over the mountains, to Bridgeport.
    keywords: army; atlanta; battle; camp; day; division; enemy; general; line; march; men; rebel; regiment; time; war
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        item: #23 of 41
          id: 39639
      author: Anonymous
       title: Picturesque World's Fair, Vol. I, No. 1, Feb. 10, 1894 An Elaborate Collection of Colored Views . . . Comprising Illustrations of the Greatest Features of the World's Columbian Exposition and Midway Plaisance: Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Scenic and Ethnological
        date: None
       words: 4294
      flesch: 57
     summary: The style of architecture adapted in the building was of the Grecian-Ionic order and the blending and adaptation of what was most perfect in the past was such as to secure an effect, if not in the exact sense original, at least of great harmony and grandeur. The grand central arch, one hundred feet high, and the domed pavilions at either corner are supported by heavy pilasters of granitoid blocks, suggestive of great solidity.
    keywords: building; exposition; fair; feet; height; illustration; people; view; world
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        item: #24 of 41
          id: 40046
      author: Tyler, William N. (William Nelson)
       title: The Dispatch Carrier and Memoirs of Andersonville Prison
        date: None
       words: 34157
      flesch: 91
     summary: Said Jim, Look here, sis, have you any sweet potatoes, butter, chickens, or anything good to eat? When we got to the shanty, the old woman gave us one look, and clasping her hands in front of her, said, Fo' de Lawd's sake; I never seed such hard looking men in my whole life!
    keywords: boys; camp; captain; colonel; day; feet; guard; horse; jim; man; men; miles; morning; night; place; prisoners; rebel; river; road; time; want; way
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        item: #25 of 41
          id: 41052
      author: Brown, Katharine Holland
       title: The Hallowell Partnership
        date: None
       words: 44954
      flesch: 92
     summary: Sally Lou Burford! Marian Hallowell pushed Empress from her knee and turned on her pillows to look at Roderick, her brother, who sat absorbed and silent at his desk.
    keywords: boat; boys; breckenridge; burford; captain; come; commodore; company; contract; day; eyes; face; finnegan; good; half; hallowell; head; home; house; launch; little; look; lou; man; marian; mccloskey; minute; mrs; ned; new; right; river; rod; roderick; sally; sis; time; voice; water; way; work
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        item: #26 of 41
          id: 41663
      author: Helm, Linai T. (Linai Taliaferro)
       title: The Fort Dearborn Massacre Written in 1814 by Lieutenant Linai T. Helm, One of the Survivors, with Letters and Narratives of Contemporary Interest
        date: None
       words: 24004
      flesch: 70
     summary: The party in the boat consisted of Mrs. Kinzie and her four younger children, their nurse Josette, a clerk of Mr. Kinzie's, two servants, and the boatmen, besides the two Indians who were to act as their protectors. The experiences of Mrs. Helm and of her mother, Mrs. John Kinzie, were related by them personally to Mrs. Juliette A. Kinzie, the author of Waubun.
    keywords: captain; chicago; chief; children; detroit; family; father; fort; friends; heald; helm; house; indians; john; kinzie; little; man; men; mother; mrs; party; place; river; time; white
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        item: #27 of 41
          id: 42322
      author: Flagg, Edmund
       title: Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 1
        date: None
       words: 121138
      flesch: 61
     summary: Boats like those employed, of twenty to thirty feet beam, and six to eight feet draught of water, must have _uncommon_ power to be propelled up a river, every pint of whose water is equal in weight to a quart of Ohio water, and moves with a velocity hardly credible. It is a trite remark, that few studies are more pleasing to the inquisitive mind than that of the _nature of man_.
    keywords: account; alton; american; bank; beautiful; beauty; blue; bluffs; boat; bosom; character; charles; circumstance; city; county; course; current; dark; day; deep; distance; earth; evening; extent; eye; feet; fine; flagg; forest; form; forth; french; general; good; grand; green; half; heart; high; history; horse; hour; human; illinois; indian; island; land; left; length; life; limestone; long; louis; man; men; miles; mind; mississippi; missouri; morning; mounds; mouth; nature; new; night; northern; note; number; ohio; opposite; origin; people; place; plain; point; prairie; present; public; race; region; river; road; rock; route; scene; settlement; shore; site; soil; spot; state; stone; stream; summer; sun; surface; time; town; traveller; trees; united; valley; vicinity; view; village; volume; waters; way; west; western; white; wild; work; world; years; young
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        item: #28 of 41
          id: 42830
      author: Curon, L. O.
       title: Chicago, Satan's Sanctum
        date: None
       words: 42305
      flesch: 61
     summary: Here and there, and now and then, gambling houses are closed, threats against police officers, who follow the well grounded practice of levying protection rates upon brothels, street walkers, gambling games of all descriptions, saloons, concert halls, and that varied combination of evils forming the working machinery of vice, are given publicity, and while the growth of these monstrous evils cannot but be known to public officials, both from observation, official reports, events as chronicled in the daily press, grand jury reports, civic and State investigations, and verdicts in the courts, a nerveless cowardice seems to seize each succeeding incumbent of the Executive's office, under whatever political party's banner he may be called to the chair, and prevents him from grappling with, and throttling, the ever increasing power of the combined votaries of all forms of vice and crime. Gambling of the sort that the police department is expected to suppress does not flourish save by the connivance of police officers.
    keywords: administration; board; business; chicago; chief; city; civil; classes; committee; county; crime; day; department; duty; fact; following; gambling; good; government; hold; houses; law; life; man; mayor; men; money; new; night; number; officers; official; party; pay; people; place; police; police force; pool; power; protection; public; report; rooms; saloons; service; state; street; time; town; women; years
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        item: #29 of 41
          id: 43631
      author: Harland, Robert O.
       title: The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the World
        date: None
       words: 44537
      flesch: 77
     summary: There are thousands of other men in every walk of life who are constantly on the lookout for a possible victim for whose sale they reap a small return in bloodstained dollars. An army of young men, fired by dreams of great futures, enter and are defiled, and slain by the poisons that are disseminated.
    keywords: ballot; blood; body; business; cent; chicago; city; combine; crime; death; district; dollars; evil; extra; gambling; girls; god; graft; hell; houses; life; man; money; night; pay; places; police; police department; power; price; protection; sin; slave; story; street; system; thousands; today; vice lords; vice trust; victims; white; women; world; year
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        item: #30 of 41
          id: 44116
      author: Morrison, Marion
       title: A History of the Ninth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry
        date: None
       words: 40912
      flesch: 81
     summary: Col. M. R. M. Wallace, who being junior officer to Lieut. Col. Phillips (then Major) made his bed between two corn rows.
    keywords: 1st; 9th; battle; boys; brigade; camp; captain; cavalry; co.; col; command; companies; company; corinth; day; division; duty; enemy; force; gen; henry; ill; illinois; inft; john; left; lieut; lieutenant; line; major; march; miles; morning; night; phillips; place; position; rebel; regiment; river; time; town; wounded
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        item: #31 of 41
          id: 44656
      author: Waugh, W. F. (William Francis)
       title: The Houseboat Book: The Log of a Cruise from Chicago to New Orleans
        date: None
       words: 39553
      flesch: 85
     summary: Capt. Fluent has quite a plant here--a ferry boat, many small boats for hire, etc. A number of cabin boats are drawn up on shore, the occupants seeming mainly of the river tramp class.
    keywords: big; boat; boys; cabin; canal; chapter; city; cold; current; day; deer; desplaines; doctor; end; engine; feet; fine; gasoline; good; great; launch; man; men; miles; morning; new; night; people; place; river; run; saw; set; shore; shot; south; time; town; water; way; wind; wood; work
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        item: #32 of 41
          id: 45440
      author: Kickapoo Club
       title: Note-book No. 1 of the Kickapoo Club
        date: None
       words: 6104
      flesch: 78
     summary: Many trips have been made to this old camp site in the past two years and all the pieces, or parts of arrow heads as well as chips have been carefully preserved. Among the things that have been found at this camp site are namely: a double beveled arrow head, of which the government reports show only one in 3,000 are found, one curved arrow head, one leaf shaped, one of the same kind incomplete, and many barbed arrow heads of different sizes, of which many are incomplete.
    keywords: arrow; cahokia; camp; cut; design; feet; flint; illinois; mound; robinson; site; stone; white
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        item: #33 of 41
          id: 45558
      author: Lathrop, David
       title: The History of the Fifty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers
        date: None
       words: 67159
      flesch: 73
     summary: General Nelson--How many men have you? General Davis--About twenty-five hundred men, General. General Nelson--roughly and angrily--About twenty-five hundred! _ At such places, as many men as could get near the wagon would lay hold and hoist it, and then the mules could again proceed.
    keywords: army; battle; boys; brigade; camp; captain; cavalry; chapter; colonel; command; company; country; creek; davis; day; days; division; enemy; field; general; good; guard; hospital; house; illinois; left; line; major; march; miles; missouri; morning; mountain; night; ninth; o'clock; order; place; position; price; rebels; regiment; river; road; sick; soldiers; springfield; time; town; troops; union; valley; war; way; wounded
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        item: #34 of 41
          id: 46001
      author: Dalziel, D. (Davison)
       title: A Parody on Iolanthe
        date: None
       words: 12785
      flesch: 80
     summary: ====================================================================== This train, leaving Chicago one hour later than heretofore, makes a much surer connection with Western lines. Agents make a dumb appeal to_ PHYLLIS.)
    keywords: = =; agent; alton; cars; central; chicago; city; co.; day; falls; illustration; iolanthe; line; lord; michigan; new; office; phyllis; queen; railroad; railway; road; route; street; strephon; york
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        item: #35 of 41
          id: 47445
      author: Wooldridge, Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman)
       title: Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World
        date: None
       words: 165680
      flesch: 72
     summary: It was charged that a coterie of Chicago men engaged in making and selling these devices had formed a trust and had for years robbed, swindled and corrupted the enlisted men of the army and navy through loaded dice, hold-outs, magnetized roulette wheels and other crooked gambling apparatus. There is little excuse, however, for Chicago men and women allowing themselves to be talked out of money for charity.
    keywords: agency; american; arrest; bank; bell; big; boy; bucket; building; business; cards; case; cent; chance; check; chicago; children; cities; city; class; co.; companies; company; concerns; country; course; court; crime; criminal; cure; day; days; death; detective; detective wooldridge; dollars; dora; end; evidence; eyes; face; fact; finger; following; form; fraud; gambler; gambling; game; george; good; graft; great; guarantee; guerin; half; hand; head; hold; home; house; husband; illustration; investment; john; jury; kind; law; left; letter; life; love; making; man; marriage; matrimonial; matter; mcdonald; means; men; methods; mike; money; mrs; names; new; number; office; officers; open; order; page; paper; pay; penitentiary; people; persons; place; police; print; prison; public; rich; right; room; safe; second; shop; state; stock; story; street; sullivan; system; things; thousands; time; trust; united; victims; way; wife; woman; wooldridge; work; world; worth; years; york; young
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        item: #36 of 41
          id: 50034
      author: Lytle, H. M.
       title: Tragedies of the White Slave
        date: None
       words: 41862
      flesch: 84
     summary: This affiant says she is familiar with the Wellington hotel and had worked in said hotel for about a week, and while she worked there said Miss Arnold did occupy said room, and that Agnes Barrett, alias Madame Barette, lived on the second floor in said hotel, in room number 228; and that this affiant, when she went to said hotel, did not know that Miss Arnold had moved out of room 545, when in fact she had, and, as your affiant is now informed, had left the hotel on the 12th of the preceding month. This affiant says that a man stepped out of said room and asked this affiant what she wanted, and this affiant said she wanted to see Miss Arnold.
    keywords: affiant; agnes; agnes barrett; alias; attorney; barette; barrett; chicago; city; day; ella; gingles; girl; good; home; hotel; kenyon; lace; life; madame; man; miss; miss barrett; miss gingles; money; mrs; night; o'donnell; room; short; story; tell; time; wellington; white; witness; woman; young
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        item: #37 of 41
          id: 50302
      author: Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
       title: The Rise and Fall of Nauvoo
        date: None
       words: 154821
      flesch: 64
     summary: Bennett induced other men to adopt his evil practices; among them Francis M. and Chauncy L. Higbee. Whatever, therefore, be the opinions of other men our course is marked out, and our motto from henceforth will be--GENERAL JOSEPH SMITH.
    keywords: body; brethren; brother; brother joseph; carthage; case; chapter; christ; church; citizens; city; company; congress; council; county; course; court; day; days; dead; death; earth; elder; enemies; father; following; force; ford; friends; general; glory; god; good; government; governor; hands; head; heaven; house; hyrum; illinois; jesus; john; joseph; joseph smith; judge; justice; kingdom; law; left; life; lord; man; men; missouri; mob; mormons; nauvoo; new; officers; order; party; people; place; power; present; president; property; prophet; prophet joseph; public; quincy; rights; saints; son; spirit; state; subject; things; time; took; united; way; world; writ
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        item: #38 of 41
          id: 50420
      author: Farley, Frank Webster
       title: History of the Beef Cattle Industry in Illinois
        date: None
       words: 22549
      flesch: 74
     summary: In 1850, this state stood sixth in milk cows, and seventh in work oxen and other cattle. In 1860, it was tenth in work oxen, fifth in milk cows, and second in other cattle.
    keywords: acres; animals; beef; beef cattle; business; cattle; chicago; corn; county; cows; disease; farm; feeders; feeding; head; herd; illinois; industry; land; market; ponting; state; steers; stock; time; united; years; | |
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        item: #39 of 41
          id: 59559
      author: Bolton, Richard
       title: Shock Troop
        date: None
       words: 1524
      flesch: 74
     summary: The atmosphere itself seemed to vibrate strangely, and looking around, he saw that the creatures were opening small head orifices and striking the ends of their forward limbs together. Zurg thwirmed, and admitted to himself that he was uneasy.
    keywords: commander; shock; zurg
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        item: #40 of 41
          id: 59617
      author: Parrish, Randall
       title: When Wilderness was King: A Tale of the Illinois Country
        date: None
       words: 89978
      flesch: 81
     summary: It was a foolish speech, and she met it bravely, with heightened color and a flash of dark eyes. De Croix had travelled widely, and had seen a great variety of life both in camp and court.
    keywords: bank; black; blood; burns; camp; captain; croix; dark; de croix; dearborn; death; eyes; face; father; fort; french; girl; god; good; great; hair; half; hand; head; heart; indian; left; life; lips; mademoiselle; man; moment; monsieur; night; old; red; river; sand; savages; thought; time; tis; twas; voice; water; way; wayland; wells; white; woman; words; yonder
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        item: #41 of 41
          id: 7988
      author: Hecht, Ben
       title: A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
        date: None
       words: 80400
      flesch: 90
     summary: The neighbors said: Old man Sikora is pretty sick. Old man Sikora died last night in the hospital.
    keywords: arms; avenue; business; car; city; crowd; dance; dark; day; days; dead; evening; eyes; face; friend; girl; god; good; half; hands; head; home; honor; jan; job; judge; kind; know; lake; lee; life; lights; look; man; matter; men; mind; moment; money; mrs; music; newspaper; newspaper man; night; ones; people; picture; pig; pitzela; place; play; policeman; rain; room; sing; smile; son; stand; story; street; talk; things; thought; time; tired; town; und; voice; walk; water; way; window; winkelberg; woman; words; work; world; years
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