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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 302

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ight fall upon the floor; the unpaved, unswept, andunsewered street; the domestic water supply but a well into which filters thewater from the adjoining cesspool, — these and many similar destroyers ofhealth and comfort can no longer be found among nations classed as enlight-ened in our school… … A QUARANTINE STATION. the population and the rent of the owner (as well as the death-rate), are dis-appearing, and in their places we find dwellings capable of furnishing air andlight to all of the residents. Then, in the matter of streets, how much more attention is now given tosmall parks ! When…

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