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Sect 14.]
The Seventh Ward, 1896.
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the riots of the thirties took place, and here once was a depth of poverty and degradation almost unbelievable. Even to-day there are many evidences of degradation,
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although the signs of idleness, shiftlessness, dissoluteness and crime are more conspicuous than those of poverty.
