item: #1 of 11
          id: 13282
      author: Sangster, Margaret E. (Margaret Elizabeth)
       title: The Island of Faith
        date: None
       words: 34088
      flesch: 88
     summary: But--Rose-Marie was inclined to argue the point--but Dr. Blanchard talks as if the people down here are scarcely human! Rose-Marie--was it possible that her eyes were fixed a shade inquiringly upon the blushing girl--would have nothing to do with any one who had not been approved by her aunts.
    keywords: bennie; child; doctor; ella; eyes; face; girl; help; house; jim; life; lily; man; marie; mrs; people; room; rose; settlement; superintendent; think; time; voice; volsky; way; yer
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        item: #2 of 11
          id: 14532
      author: Ford, Paul Leicester
       title: The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
        date: None
       words: 157120
      flesch: 89
     summary: So this is the office of the great Peter Stirling? she said, with the nicest tone of interest in her voice, as it seemed to Peter. But now his moral character is sadly on the wane, 'Tis little Peter Stirling, bilin' drunk again.
    keywords: away; business; case; city; course; d'alloi; day; dear; dennis; dinner; door; dorothy; evening; eyes; face; friends; girl; going; good; half; hand; head; help; kind; law; leonore; life; lispenard; long; look; love; maguire; man; men; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; need; new; office; papers; party; people; peter; peter stirling; pierce; place; politics; read; right; room; rose; saw; society; speech; talk; things; thought; till; time; try; voe; voice; want; ward; watts; way; wish; woman; work; years; york
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        item: #3 of 11
          id: 19014
      author: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
       title: Nibsy's Christmas
        date: None
       words: 8639
      flesch: 87
     summary: Very gently they lifted poor little Nibsy--for it was he, caught in his berth by a worse enemy than the cop or the watchman of the hay-barge--into the ambulance that bore him off to the hospital cot, too late. More than one of the passers-by who came within range was taken with an extra shiver in which the vision of wife and little ones waiting at home for his coming was snuffed out, as he dropped in to brace up.
    keywords: alley; boys; christmas; cold; door; home; man; mother; nibsy; room; skippy; street; tenements; way
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        item: #4 of 11
          id: 21583
      author: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
       title: Children of the Tenements
        date: None
       words: 88245
      flesch: 86
     summary: From the tenements next door men and women dragged bundles and feather-beds, choking stairs and halls, and shrieking madly to be let out. They were always cross and ugly, never laughed and carried on as other men did once in a while, and made his little feet very tired running with the growler early and late.
    keywords: alley; away; baby; bed; boys; children; christmas; city; claus; cold; corner; dark; day; days; dead; door; end; eyes; face; father; find; fire; firemen; floor; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; home; house; jack; jim; jocko; left; life; look; man; men; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; open; paolo; place; police; policeman; rest; room; rose; run; santa; saw; school; sergeant; set; snow; stairs; story; street; tenement; things; thought; time; way; white; wife; window; winter; woman; work; years; york; young
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        item: #5 of 11
          id: 22041
      author: Sterrett, Frances R. (Frances Roberta)
       title: Mary Rose of Mifflin
        date: None
       words: 58050
      flesch: 94
     summary: She sighed and then smiled, for she knew that she would not change small Mary Rose for big Harriet White if she had the chance. At last Mary Rose could keep still no longer.
    keywords: aunt; aunt mary; bracken; donovan; eyes; face; george; girl; good; home; jenny; jerry; kate; larry; lind; mary; mary rose; mifflin; miss; mrs; people; right; rose; schuneman; thorley; thought; time; washington; wells
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        item: #6 of 11
          id: 23517
      author: Martin, George Madden
       title: The Angel of the Tenement
        date: None
       words: 24085
      flesch: 76
     summary: Nor was this all,--for somewhere about that Tree, hung a document, which being delivered, revealed to Miss Norma Bonkowski that she was now the owner and proprietor of that same Costumer's establishment she had so coveted,--while a most innocent and ordinary looking little book bearing Mary Carew's name told the secret of a sum of money safely in bank, so sufficient that never again need that grim phantom, the poor-house, threaten to overshadow the end as it had the beginning of Mary's life. But this the good ladies forgave, for was not this same Miss Norma the flower that shed an odor of distinction over the social blossoming of the whole Tenement?
    keywords: angel; baby; bonkowski; carew; child; day; door; eyes; face; good; head; joey; know; lady; major; mary; miss; mrs; norma; o'malligan; old; room; ruth; tenement; time; tomlin; way; yer
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        item: #7 of 11
          id: 28228
      author: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
       title: The Battle with the Slum
        date: None
       words: 99291
      flesch: 80
     summary: We acquired tenement house laws, and the process of education that had begun with the foraging ground of the swine was extended step by step to the citizen's home. Eyes inspection, public school children, 358-359. Factory tenements, disapproval of, 134. Farming-- Farm colony for young vagrants, 127, 172, 350.
    keywords: air; alley; block; board; boys; building; business; cent; chance; children; church; city; club; committee; day; days; death; dollars; door; east; education; gang; good; government; half; hand; health; home; house; human; illustration; kind; know; landlord; law; life; like; little; lodging; lot; man; money; mrs; mulberry; need; neighborhood; new; new york; park; people; place; plan; playground; police; policeman; politics; public; reform; right; roof; room; school; set; slum; story; street; tammany; tenants; tenement; tenement house; thing; time; title; town; way; women; work; world; years; york
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        item: #8 of 11
          id: 38419
      author: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
       title: Out of Mulberry Street: Stories of Tenement life in New York City
        date: None
       words: 54837
      flesch: 86
     summary: From the tenements next door men and women dragged bundles and feather-beds, choking stairs and halls, and shrieking madly to be let out. Little hands are itching to get hold of it in one of the cribs inside.
    keywords: alley; baby; bed; children; christmas; corner; day; days; dead; dollar; door; end; eyes; face; father; fire; firemen; floor; girl; good; great; half; hand; head; home; house; left; life; look; man; men; morning; mother; new; night; paolo; police; policeman; rest; room; rose; saw; sergeant; set; story; street; tenement; thought; time; way; wife; window; woman; work; years
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        item: #9 of 11
          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: #10 of 11
          id: 45502
      author: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
       title: How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
        date: None
       words: 83341
      flesch: 73
     summary: Go into any of the respectable tenement neighborhoods--the fact that there are not more than two saloons on the corner, nor over three or four in the block will serve as a fair guide--where live the great body of hard-working Irish and German immigrants and their descendants, who accept naturally the conditions of tenement life, because for them there is nothing else in New York; be with and among its people until you understand their ways, their aims, and the quality of their ambitions, and unless you can content yourself with the scriptural promise that the poor we shall have always with us, or with the menagerie view that, if fed, they have no cause of complaint, you shall come away agreeing with me that, humanly speaking, life there does not seem worth the living. Penitentiary Row, suggestive name for a block of Cherry Street tenements, is behind us.
    keywords: air; alley; bend; boy; boys; business; case; census; cent; chapter; children; city; day; death; dollars; door; east; fact; family; find; floor; good; half; hand; health; home; house; illustration; italian; law; life; little; living; lodging; man; new; new york; night; number; pay; people; place; police; poor; population; poverty; public; real; rear; rent; rest; room; society; stand; story; street; tenants; tenement; time; ward; way; week; women; work; world; years; york; young
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        item: #11 of 11
          id: 61300
      author: Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)
       title: Christmas Stories
        date: None
       words: 46671
      flesch: 85
     summary: Before they had finished the first verse of America as their good night, standing up like little men, half of them were down and asleep with their heads pillowed upon their arms. Christmas trees are rather rarer over here than on the East Side, where the German leavens the lump with his loyalty to home traditions.
    keywords: away; baby; boys; burgomaster; children; christmas; christmas eve; christmas tree; claus; cold; corner; dark; day; dollar; door; eve; eyes; face; gimpy; good; hand; head; home; house; jack; left; life; look; man; men; mother; new; night; room; santa; saw; school; snow; street; things; time; tom; town; voice; way; white; wife; window; woman; year
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