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Black headlines in the Chicago newspapers of Monday morning , December 18 , 1905 , jolted the city as it had not been jolted for years . The three banks of John R. Walsh had failed . Excited citizens grabbed the papers to read with ...
Black headlines in the Chicago newspapers of Monday morning , December 18 , 1905 , jolted the city as it had not been jolted for years . The three banks of John R. Walsh had failed . Excited citizens grabbed the papers to read with ...
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I told him that Chicago was already in as bad a fix as New York ; that we were certainly going on a clearing house basis , and that for his own record as well as the banks ' sake he should find us the money .
I told him that Chicago was already in as bad a fix as New York ; that we were certainly going on a clearing house basis , and that for his own record as well as the banks ' sake he should find us the money .
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Chicago was the showcase of the bustling , fast - building West . The more the West grew , the more Chicago grew . Just as Chicago factories furnished the material that went into the building of the West , so also did Chicago furnish a ...
Chicago was the showcase of the bustling , fast - building West . The more the West grew , the more Chicago grew . Just as Chicago factories furnished the material that went into the building of the West , so also did Chicago furnish a ...
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| Title | Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes, Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Author | Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Publisher | Holt, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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