The Story of Chicago

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The Story of Chicago
Joseph Kirkland
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He picked it up, floundering as it was, took it home, and it was served for the family dinner.
The history of the Chicago river as a river is easy to write; as water, it is more puzzling. In fact, in some times and places it has ISAAC D. HARMON.
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been scarcely recognizable as water. * About the middle of the thirties, Charles Cleaver speared a fine muskallonge in the North Branch. Since those, its halcyon days, the long-suffering stream has over and over gone from bad to worse,
... until the worse became intolerable, when some costly expedient has been adopted looking to a " permanent " cure. Before incorporation a township ordinance was passed, threatening with fine any one who should put into the stream the carcass of any dead animal. In 1848, the starting of the canal pumps to lift water into the "shallow cut" was a prompt and welcome relief. In 1871 this was supplemented by the completion of the " deep cut, " at huge * An old fable tells how a philosopher, to illustrate the evanescence of earthly things, said to one of his disciples, "Wouldst thou know how long thou wilt be remembered when thou an dead ?

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