item: #1 of 17
          id: 11418
      author: Lynde, Francis
       title: The Grafters
        date: None
       words: 91312
      flesch: 82
     summary: Of what use can _I_ be to Mr. David Kent this evening? That is for you to find out, Mr. David Kent; not by hearsay, but in good, solid terms of fact that will appeal to a level-headed, conservative newspaper editor like--well, like Mr. Hildreth, of the _Argus_, let us say.
    keywords: attorney; brentwood; brock; bucks; business; callahan; car; case; company; court; david kent; day; door; elinor; end; eyes; gaston; general; good; governor; guilford; half; hand; hawk; head; hildreth; hold; hour; house; hunnicott; judge; kent; left; line; loring; macfarlane; man; matter; men; minutes; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; night; office; ormsby; penelope; people; portia; railroad; receiver; room; saw; state; station; stock; thing; thought; time; train; van; want; way; western; woman; word; young
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        item: #2 of 17
          id: 28820
      author: Scott, Leroy
       title: Counsel for the Defense
        date: None
       words: 91070
      flesch: 87
     summary: I suppose we ought to consult Mr. Blake, said Kennedy. You mean Mr. Blake? Yes, Mr. Blake. I thought of him at first, of course.
    keywords: billy; blake; blind; bruce; case; charlie; city; come; course; court; day; doctor; door; elsie; express; eyes; face; father; good; half; hand; head; hosie; house; katherine; lawyer; little; look; man; mind; miss; moment; new; office; peck; people; right; room; sherman; talk; thought; time; town; voice; water; way; west; westville; woman; work
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        item: #3 of 17
          id: 3304
      author: Sinclair, Upton
       title: The Machine
        date: None
       words: 17603
      flesch: 100
     summary: Is that you, Miss Hegan? LAURA. That is true, Miss Hegan. LAURA.
    keywords: andrews; dear; father; grimes; hegan; jack; julia; laura; man; miss; montague; right; way
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        item: #4 of 17
          id: 34020
      author: Rinehart, Mary Roberts
       title: The Window at the White Cat
        date: None
       words: 70131
      flesch: 88
     summary: Miss Margery was not long in emerging from her handkerchief. One-thirty, Miss Margery says, when she heard the noise.
    keywords: bag; burton; butler; day; door; edith; face; father; fleming; floor; fred; half; hall; hand; head; home; house; hunter; jane; knox; left; letitia; little; look; man; margery; miss; morning; night; open; room; saw; schwartz; stairs; things; think; thought; time; wardrop; way; white; window; woman
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        item: #5 of 17
          id: 38846
      author: Lynde, Francis
       title: The Wreckers
        date: None
       words: 90052
      flesch: 85
     summary: So Mr. Norcross was in no special hurry, and neither was I. I wasn't under pay, but I expected to be when we reached Canada. I put it up that in those absent-eyed intervals Mr. Norcross had been studying the back of the young woman's neck.
    keywords: away; big; boss; britt; business; car; chadwick; city; collingwood; come; course; day; dunton; end; engine; good; guess; half; hand; hatch; head; hold; jimmie; kirgan; let; like; line; major; man; men; minute; mrs; new; norcross; office; people; portal; railroad; right; ripley; room; saw; sheila; sort; special; talk; things; think; thought; time; track; train; van; way; wire
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        item: #6 of 17
          id: 42333
      author: Wilkins, W. A.
       title: The Cleverdale Mystery; or, The Machine and Its Wheels: A Story of American Life
        date: None
       words: 69083
      flesch: 77
     summary: Both tellers are Hamblin men! Passing into the hotel, Senator Hamblin met other acquaintances, and it was readily seen that he was a lion among the men gathered at the great spa to discuss politics and lay pipe for the grasping of power and distribution of patronage.
    keywords: alden; bank; belle; belle hamblin; boys; business; cleverdale; daley; daughter; day; door; eyes; face; father; friends; george; george alden; girl; god; good; hamblin; hand; heart; home; house; left; letter; life; look; mannis; men; miller; mind; money; mother; mrs; paddy; party; place; politics; poor; rawlings; room; sargent; senator hamblin; thought; time; way; wife; work
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        item: #7 of 17
          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: #8 of 17
          id: 43103
      author: Hichborn, Franklin
       title: "The System," As Uncovered by the San Francisco Graft Prosecution
        date: None
       words: 190898
      flesch: 64
     summary: And then, having explained the situation fully, Rosenthal told them, what every observer in San Francisco knew, There is only one man who could help you, and that is Mr. Ruef. It is understood and agreed that, notwithstanding the scope and effect of the language used throughout this agreement, it does not and shall not be construed to apply in any respect or particular to that certain indictment No. 305, or the offense charged therein, which is now pending against said Abraham Ruef jointly with Eugene E. Schmitz, in the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, in Department No. 6 thereof.
    keywords: a. ruef; abe ruef; abraham ruef; administration; attorney langdon; board; bribe; bribery; burns; business; calhoun; california; cases; charge; citizens; city; company; county; court; day; defense; district attorney; election; evidence; expenses; fact; following; ford; franchise; francisco graft; gallagher; general; good; government; graft; graft prosecution; grand; guilty; halsey; heney; home; immunity; j. heney; judge; jury; justice; labor; langdon; law; lonergan; man; matter; mayor; mayor schmitz; members; men; money; municipal; new; office; officials; order; pacific; party; people; president; prosecution; public; purpose; question; railroads; ruef; ruef board; ruef case; ruef jury; ruef trial; said; san francisco; schmitz; services; spreckels; stand; state; statement; street; supervisors; system; telephone; testimony; time; time ruef; trial; trolley; union; united; united railroads; vote; way; witness; work; years
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        item: #9 of 17
          id: 5076
      author: Beach, Rex
       title: The Spoilers
        date: None
       words: 88798
      flesch: 89
     summary: They robbed a realm and pillaged its people, they defiled a court and made Justice a wanton, they jailed good men and sent others to ruin; and for this they are to suffer--how? I've seen men get plumb drunk on mountain air.
    keywords: away; big; bronco; cherry; close; course; court; crowd; day; days; dextry; door; eyes; face; feet; game; girl; glenister; going; gold; good; half; hand; head; helen; house; judge; kid; law; lay; left; life; look; love; man; mcnamara; men; midas; miss; moment; money; new; night; past; people; place; room; roy; ship; struve; talk; tell; things; thought; time; town; uncle; voice; wheaton; white; woman; work
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        item: #10 of 17
          id: 5818
      author: Twain, Mark
       title: The Gilded Age, Part 1.
        date: None
       words: 24879
      flesch: 81
     summary: There can't be two! We gone dis time--we done gone dis time, sho'! Uncle Dan'l(colored,) aged 40; his wife, aunt Jinny, aged 30, Young Miss Emily Hawkins, Young Mars Washington Hawkins and Young Mars Clay, the new member of the family, ranged themselves on a log, after supper, and contemplated the marvelous river and discussed it.
    keywords: children; clay; colonel; come; day; eyes; family; father; good; hands; hawkins; head; heart; house; know; land; look; lord; man; moment; nancy; people; right; sellers; thing; time; washington; water; way; world
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        item: #11 of 17
          id: 5819
      author: Twain, Mark
       title: The Gilded Age, Part 2.
        date: None
       words: 23799
      flesch: 76
     summary: If he were good enough he would attach himself to that company of young men in the Theological Seminary, who were seeing New York life in preparation for the ministry. We'll buy the lands, explained he, on long time, backed by the notes of good men; and then mortgage them for money enough to get the road well on.
    keywords: city; colonel; country; day; good; harry; hawkeye; laura; life; man; men; money; mother; new; philip; room; ruth; sellers; thee; thing; thought; time; town; washington; way; world; years
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        item: #12 of 17
          id: 5820
      author: Warner, Charles Dudley
       title: The Gilded Age, Part 3.
        date: None
       words: 21327
      flesch: 73
     summary: Mr. Harry Brierly drew his pay as an engineer while he was living at the City Hotel in Hawkeye. When the young gentlemen were on their way back to the hotel, Mr. Philip, who was not in very good humor, broke out, What the deuce, Harry, did you go on in that style to the Montagues for? Go on? cried Harry.
    keywords: colonel; country; day; father; good; harry; hawkeye; house; laura; life; man; men; money; new; philip; ruth; sellers; senator; thee; thing; thought; time; washington; way; woman
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        item: #13 of 17
          id: 5821
      author: Warner, Charles Dudley
       title: The Gilded Age, Part 4.
        date: None
       words: 24137
      flesch: 79
     summary: Said he: Have you ever read this, ma'm? There's your official salaries--you can't get good men for nothing.
    keywords: company; course; day; dilworthy; good; harry; lady; land; laura; man; men; mind; miss; money; mrs; new; people; philip; right; ruth; saw; senator; sir; thing; thought; time; washington; way
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        item: #14 of 17
          id: 5822
      author: Warner, Charles Dudley
       title: The Gilded Age, Part 5.
        date: None
       words: 22992
      flesch: 82
     summary: Mr. Trollop's Great Speech--which speech was written and composed by Miss Laura Hawkins under a secret understanding for one hundred dollars--and the money has not been paid.' But Mr. Washington Hawkins (one of the heirs) objected.
    keywords: bill; buckstone; colonel; day; dilworthy; good; harry; hawkins; house; laura; man; miss; philip; senator; thing; thought; time; trollop; vote; washington; way; woman
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        item: #15 of 17
          id: 5823
      author: Warner, Charles Dudley
       title: The Gilded Age, Part 6.
        date: None
       words: 21510
      flesch: 79
     summary: She needn't be looking down, he thought, for she was ever so much shorter than tall Philip. Philip left the capitol and walked up Pennsylvania Avenue in company with Senator Dilworthy.
    keywords: bolton; coal; congress; day; family; good; harry; hawkins; house; laura; man; men; money; new; people; philip; ruth; senator; sunday; thing; thought; time; washington; woman
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        item: #16 of 17
          id: 5824
      author: Twain, Mark
       title: The Gilded Age, Part 7.
        date: None
       words: 23166
      flesch: 79
     summary: The University was on file for its third reading this day, and to-morrow Washington would be a millionaire and Sellers no longer, impecunious but this day, also, or at farthest the next, the jury in Laura's Case would come to a decision of some kind or other--they would find her guilty, Washington secretly feared, and then the care and the trouble would all come back again, and these would be wearing months of besieging judges for new trials; on this day, also, the re-election of Mr. Dilworthy to the Senate would take place. The next telegram was from Mr. Dilworthy: I have not only brought over the Great Invincible, but through him a dozen more of the opposition.
    keywords: braham; colonel; day; dilworthy; hawkins; honor; judge; jury; laura; life; man; mind; money; new; noble; philip; ruth; sellers; senate; senator; sir; time; washington; way
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        item: #17 of 17
          id: 7931
      author: Day, Holman
       title: All-Wool Morrison Time -- Today, Place -- the United States, Period of Action -- Twenty-four Hours
        date: None
       words: 76580
      flesch: 83
     summary: To go into details about the Morrison manners and methods and doggedness in attending to the matter in hand, whatever it might be, would not limn Stewart Morrison in any clearer light than to state that old Andrew, at seventy-two, was obeying Stewart's orders as to the ten-o'clock rule and was just as consistently a Cerberus as he had been in the case of Angus and David. It may be added that Stewart Morrison was thirty-odd, a bachelor, dwelt with his widowed mother in the Morrison mansion, was mayor of the city of Marion, though he did not want to be mayor, and was chairman of the State Water Storage Commission because he particularly wanted to be the chairman; he was, by reason of that office, in a position where he could rap the knuckles of those who should attempt to grab and selfishly exploit The People's White Coal, as he called water-power.
    keywords: big; blanchard; boys; business; case; city; corson; daunt; door; evening; eyes; father; general; going; good; governor; hand; head; house; know; lana; lanigan; mac; man; marion; matter; mayor; mayor morrison; men; mill; miss; mob; morrison; mrs; need; north; office; people; politics; power; right; room; senator; senator corson; sir; stanton; state; stewart; stewart morrison; tavish; think; time; way; word
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