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Identifier: chicagobydaynigh00vynn (find matches)
Title: Chicago by day and night
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: (Vynne, Harold Richard) (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Amusements
Publisher: Chicago, Thomson and Zimmerman
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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8o Libby Prison is open day and evening. Theadmission fee is fifty cents, children half-price.Not far from Libby Prison, on Wabash ave-nue, is another structure that possesses a stronghistorical interest. This is the fort of JohnBrown, transported entire to this city and en-closed in a neat iron building. Enterprise hasno compunction in these days, and it is hard totell what the visitor to Chicago will not see ifhe waits long enough.
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PANORAMAS, CASINO: AND LIBBY PRISON. CHAPTER VIII. PERILS AND PITFALLS. IT is not insulting the intel-ligence of the stranger to warnhim against the unscrupulouspersons who will beset his path^for they are so numerousand make their appearanceat such unexpectedtimes and places thatthe very smartest of us^all are occasionally indanger of being victim-ized. There are probably morecrooked people in Chicago atthe present writing than anyother city in the Union, and it isaltogether probable that thisnumber will be largely increasedduring the progress of the Fair. The criminal classes who infest Chicago atall times are extremely varied. The commontough, whose exterior and manner of com-porting himself proclaim his worthlessness, isnot very much to be feared. Such gentry willbe well cared for by the police during the great

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  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:_Vynne__Harold_Richard___from_old_catalog_
  • booksubject:World_s_Columbian_Exposition__1893___Chicago__Ill__
  • booksubject:Amusements
  • bookpublisher:Chicago__Thomson_and_Zimmerman
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
  • booksponsor:Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:78
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