Better days; or, A Millionaire of To-morrow

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It was late in the month of July, 1892, and although the World’s Exposition was not yet formally opened, tens of thousands of strangers thronged the hotels of Chicago and added to the gayety of her streets. The great attraction of the day was the locomotive railroad 7race, and about twenty acres of people, representing all nations, filled the benches and spread over the outer circle of the great four-mile track.