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Photographic history of the World's fair and sketch of the city of Chicago : Also a guide to the World's fair and Chicago (1893)

Pierce, James Wilson · Baltimore : R. H. Woodward · leaf 150

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INTS OF INTEREST. 12- use. A market I ioxioo feet in size, with stalls for meat, vegetables, fish, poultry, etc. ; and in its upper story a public hall with a capacity of 600 ; gas works connecting with every house in town ; green-houses for furnishing the town, its parks and gardens with flowers… … LINCOLN PARK LAKE. tons of ice; lumber yards covering eighty acres; about fifty different kinds of lumber are used here, and nearly half a million dollars’ worth is always kept on hand ; this lumber is obtained from South America, Central America, Mexico and from half the States of the Union.…

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