Chicago and St Louis Railroad

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    Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
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    Pieces of eight! pieces of eight! pieces of eight!
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    I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say—I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
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