This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...once placed the price of a new dress in a letter which was to leave by the return of a mail which brought her husband an exorbitant tax-bill. He expressed his intention of ordering, bythe same mail, the sale of his Chicago property, as his means could endure his taxes no longer. His wife ordered her letter from the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...once placed the price of a new dress in a letter which was to leave by the return of a mail which brought her husband an exorbitant tax-bill. He expressed his intention of ordering, bythe same mail, the sale of his Chicago property, as his means could endure his taxes no longer. His wife ordered her letter from the mail, took out the money, and, saying that she preferred the Chicago property to a new dress, insisted that he should use it to pay his Chicago taxes. The next summer he visited our city, and rented his property for enough to pay the taxes. That lady lost her dress tor that year, but she gained thereby one of the largest and most celebrated (Kingsbury) estates in our city. The narrator wisely adds: I mention this fact to warn our ladies that they should never ask for a new dress until they find their husband's tax-receipt in his wallet; and at the same time, I would also caution husbands not to try to carry so much real estate as to make their poorly-clad wives and children objects of charity when they make their appearance in the streets. Eon. Isaac H. Arnold's Story of Abraham Lincoln. The Hon. Isaac N. Arnold, a long, and honored resident of Chicago, tells the following interesting incident concerning the early surroundings of the Garden City in connection with young Lincoln, Gurdon S. Hubbard, and others: In 1832 John Dixon kept the ferry across Rock River, and the latch-string of his hospitable home was never drawn in against the stranger. The Black Hawk war was pending, and settlers and whole families had been killed and scalped upon the prairie. The National Government sent Gen. Scott with some regular troops to Chicago, and to these were added some companies of Illinois mounted volunteers, called out by Governor Reynolds, to aid in protec...
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Add this copy of Stories and Sketches of Chicago: an Interesting, to cart. $157.00, good condition, Sold by Bartleby's Books ABAA rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chevy Chase, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1882 by Rhodes & McClure.
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8vo. 197 pp. Illustrated with many wood engravings, map. Original illustrated wrappers (somewhat soiled); spine ends eroded, but a very good copy. Second edition (first published in 1880). While the first edition is relatively common, this edition is scarce; not recorded on OCLC and a single copy located by the NUC (OCIWHi).
