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Floating elevator for Chicago sparks city plan
A garbled collage of 19th century clippings cites diverse items from city developments to social quirks. It mentions Chicago considering a floating elevator and other scattered notes on places people and inventions, with no coherent single event.
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Chicago
Boston
Nilsson
Miss Cary
Limburger
Iowa
St. Lawrence
London
Lyon Exchange
Bangor
Petaluma
California
Mungo Park
Corsica
Fuscumbia
Ala
Yale
Perry
Ioodoo
Harvard College
Florida
Sioux City
Burke
San Francisco
Smith
New Orleans
Michigan State
Japan
O. W. Holmes
Pauline Metternich
Austria
Schurz
Chemise
Rhoderick Dhu
Great Britain
Pennsylvania
Maine
Granby
Massachusetts
Dobs
Tar
Smithsonian Institute
Lowell Courier
Gen. Sherman
Prince of Wales
Rome
New York City
Hast River Bridge
Catskills
Dubuque
Town
Mobile Register
Natchez
Strasbourg University
Goethe
Meouony
Lavo
Lllinois Nnigko Issel
Pr. Crook
Oliver Crook