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And yet , and here's the gist of this comparison , New York's death record for 1910 as a result of Typhoid fever alone was exactly 556 , which is more than 100 in excess of the number of deaths due to the yellow - fever epidemic in New ...
And yet , and here's the gist of this comparison , New York's death record for 1910 as a result of Typhoid fever alone was exactly 556 , which is more than 100 in excess of the number of deaths due to the yellow - fever epidemic in New ...
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... the rate of one hundred miles in a 24 - hour day , which is just the speed of a slow freight train . N EW YORK CITY leads in skyscrapers and in elevator.
... the rate of one hundred miles in a 24 - hour day , which is just the speed of a slow freight train . N EW YORK CITY leads in skyscrapers and in elevator.
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N EW YORK CITY leads in skyscrapers and in elevator accidents . New York has more than twice as many as Chicago , and pretty nearly as many as Chicago , Philadelphia and St. Louis combined . This may or may not signify the peril of the ...
N EW YORK CITY leads in skyscrapers and in elevator accidents . New York has more than twice as many as Chicago , and pretty nearly as many as Chicago , Philadelphia and St. Louis combined . This may or may not signify the peril of the ...
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