        item: #1 of 6
          id: 10025
      author: Hurst, Fannie
       title: Gaslight Sonatas
        date: None
       words: 71501
      flesch: 92
     summary: You're going to watch your step, little girl, and I don't know as I blame you. I ain't the one to complain, Mrs. Katz, and I always say, when you come right down to it maybe Mrs. Kaufman's house is as good as the next one, but-- I wish, though, Mrs. Finshriber, you would hear what Mrs. Spritz says at her boarding-house they get for breakfast: fried-- You can imagine, Mrs. Katz, since my poor husband's death, how much appetite I got left; but I say, Mrs. Katz, just for the principle of the thing, it would not hurt once if Mrs. Kaufman could give somebody else besides her own daughter and Vetsburg the white meat from everything, wouldn't it? It's a shame before the boarders!
    keywords: arm; away; baby; black; blutch; boy; business; chair; charley; city; coblenz; come; crowd; darling; day; door; eyes; face; fellow; girl; god; going; good; half; hand; hanna; harry; head; home; honey; house; jimmie; kaufman; kind; life; long; look; mama; man; miss; mommy; mother; mrs; new; pink; poor; right; room; ruby; selene; street; table; things; think; time; town; vetsburg; voice; want; way; white; woman; world; years
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        item: #2 of 6
          id: 16447
      author: Adams, Samuel Hopkins
       title: The Clarion
        date: None
       words: 123283
      flesch: 85
     summary: If the money is good enough for me to spend, it's good enough for me to earn, said Hal Surtaine a little grandiloquently. Fellows, he said, and he turned sharply to face Hal Surtaine, I don't know how the devil old Themistocles ever could do it--unless he owned a newspaper! Silence followed, and then a quick acclaiming shout, as they grasped the implicit challenge of the corollary.
    keywords: advertising; big; boy; boyee; business; certina; city; clarion; come; course; dad; day; doctor; dollars; editor; editorial; elliot; ellis; epidemic; esmé; eyes; face; father; friend; girl; good; great; guess; hal; hal surtaine; half; hand; head; help; home; kind; let; life; look; man; matter; mcguire; men; merritt; milly; mind; miss; money; neal; news; newspaper; office; paper; people; pierce; place; print; right; room; run; set; son; story; suppose; sure; surtaine; talk; think; thought; time; tone; town; veltman; voice; way; week; willard; woman; word; work; worthington; young
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        item: #3 of 6
          id: 36014
      author: Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
       title: Notes on Old Edinburgh
        date: None
       words: 14262
      flesch: 74
     summary: Scarcely elsewhere does one roof cover a population of 290, 248, 240 persons, living in dens, honeycombed out of larger rooms, without ventilation, without privacy, and often without direct light. There were many children sitting in the gutters, very dirty, ragged, and sore-eyed.
    keywords: bed; children; city; close; dark; day; edinburgh; families; feet; floor; houses; man; night; people; room; stair; street; water; women
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        item: #4 of 6
          id: 36958
      author: Morrison, Arthur
       title: A Child of the Jago
        date: None
       words: 63985
      flesch: 85
     summary: The rain, which had abated for a space, came up on a driving wind, and whipped Dicky Perrott home to meet his new brother. This, however, was but a Rann and Leary fight; and it was but in its early stages when Dicky Perrott, emerging from Jerry Gullen's back-yard, made for Shoreditch High Street by way of the 'Posties'--the passage with posts at the end of Old Jago Street.
    keywords: bill; boy; clock; court; day; dicky; dicky perrott; door; dove; end; ere; eyes; face; father; good; half; hand; head; high; home; house; jago; jago street; josh; josh perrott; kiddo; know; lane; lay; leary; left; man; money; mother; new; old; perrott; place; police; rann; right; room; row; shop; street; sturt; thing; thought; till; time; watch; way; weech; window; work
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        item: #5 of 6
          id: 38821
      author: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
       title: A Ten Years' War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York
        date: None
       words: 54940
      flesch: 79
     summary: No winter has passed, since the awakening conscience of the people of New York city manifested itself in a desire to better the lot of the other half, that has not seen an assault made, in one shape or another, on the structure of tenement house law built up with such anxious solicitude. And it is not yet half a dozen years since one of the biggest tenement house landlords in the city, the wealthiest church corporation in the land, attacked the constitutionality of this statute rather than pay a couple of hundred dollars for putting water into two old buildings, as the Board of Health had ordered, and came near upsetting the whole structure of tenement house law upon which our safety depends.
    keywords: air; boss; boy; boys; business; cent; chance; children; city; club; committee; day; dollars; east; gang; good; government; half; home; house; human; kind; landlord; law; life; like; man; new; night; park; pay; people; plan; playground; police; policeman; politics; public; reform; room; school; slum; street; tammany; tenants; tenement; thing; time; way; work; years; york
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        item: #6 of 6
          id: 447
      author: Crane, Stephen
       title: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
        date: None
       words: 23476
      flesch: 88
     summary: Do dose little men talk? asked Maggie. Men with calloused hands and attired in garments that showed the wear of an endless trudge for a living, smoked their pipes contentedly and spent five, ten, or perhaps fifteen cents for beer.
    keywords: air; boy; damn; dat; deh; deh hell; door; eyes; face; girl; git; hands; head; hell; home; jimmie; maggie; men; mother; pete; right; room; street; teh; time; way; wid; woman; yehs; yer
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