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Title: Burton's book on California and its sunlit skies of glory
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Burton, George Ward, 1839-
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Publisher: Los Angeles, Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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. Rosenheim Architect. C. Leonardt, Builder. HAMBURGER BUILDING, BROADWAY, HILL AND EIGHTH STREETS, LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA. That record is probably unmatchable in any city of the size of Los Angelesinside or outside of the United States. The figures are the more remarkable whenwe realize that this city is sought by thousands of persons of advanced age whocome here in order to live long and to see good days in spite of their advancedyears—blessings which they could not expect to enjoy in climates less favorable tohuman life. The aggregate death rate for the week is small, and it is importantto remember that not only the aged flock here to see good days, but those afflictedwith various diseases who know their term of life has but a span remaining andwho come here in hopes of suffering less than would be the case in climates rigorous,either from excessive cold or excessive heat, or from sudden changes and everyelement that makes it difficult for the weak to survive or live in comfort.
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MISSION CORRIDOR. ON CALIFORNIA. 99 Dickenss West and Roosevelts West IT IS sixty-five years since Charles Dickens visited the United States. Thiswas in 1842, and in 1844 he pubhshed American Notes, in which werecontained portions of what was afterward developed into Martin Chuzzle-wit. Dickenss journey from New York to St. Louis throws some light, althoughhighly colored, upon the conditions of society in what was then the western frontierof the United States. When Dickens visited the country St. Louis was the principal city in the Val-ley of the Mississippi, and, indeed, it might be said to have been the principal onein the United States, with the exception of a few seaports on the Atlantic Coast. Dickenss St. Louis was a mere trading post. The business interests of thesettlement and the condition of society were somewhat analogous to those of Chey-enne or Julesberg some twenty years later, when the Union Pacific Railroad wasbeing pushed westward from the Missouri River toward the Pa

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