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1  And so Jurgis spent the balance of the night in the stockyards station house.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
2  When Jurgis had first come to the stockyards he had been as clean as any workingman could well be.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
3  It was in the stockyards that Jonas' friend had gotten rich, and so to Chicago the party was bound.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
4  So he came at last to the stockyards, to the black volcanoes of smoke and the lowing cattle and the stench.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
5  So Jurgis went out to the stockyards again, and was introduced to the political lord of the district, the boss of Chicago's mayor.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
6  In the stockyards this was only in national and state elections, for in local elections the Democratic Party always carried everything.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
7  Scully held an important party office in the state, and bossed even the mayor of the city, it was said; it was his boast that he carried the stockyards in his pocket.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
8  Such were the stockyards during the strike; while the unions watched in sullen despair, and the country clamored like a greedy child for its food, and the packers went grimly on their way.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
9  At the other's request he told his story; how he had come to America, and what had happened to him in the stockyards, and how his family had been broken up, and how he had become a wanderer.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
10  The "Union Stockyards" were never a pleasant place; but now they were not only a collection of slaughterhouses, but also the camping place of an army of fifteen or twenty thousand human beasts.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
11  So he told her the long story of his adventures since his flight from home; his life as a tramp, and his work in the freight tunnels, and the accident; and then of Jack Duane, and of his political career in the stockyards, and his downfall and subsequent failures.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28
12  They took him to a room where other prisoners were waiting and here he stayed until court adjourned, when he had another long and bitterly cold ride in a patrol wagon to the county jail, which is on the north side of the city, and nine or ten miles from the stockyards.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
13  In the same way Scully had all the jobs in the fire department at his disposal, and all the rest of the city graft in the stockyards district; he was building a block of flats somewhere up on Ashland Avenue, and the man who was overseeing it for him was drawing pay as a city inspector of sewers.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
14  It was one of the laws of the veselija that no one goes hungry; and, while a rule made in the forests of Lithuania is hard to apply in the stockyards district of Chicago, with its quarter of a million inhabitants, still they did their best, and the children who ran in from the street, and even the dogs, went out again happier.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
15  People said that old man Durham himself was responsible for these immigrations; he had sworn that he would fix the people of Packingtown so that they would never again call a strike on him, and so he had sent his agents into every city and village in Europe to spread the tale of the chances of work and high wages at the stockyards.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
16  It had some thought for its employees; its workshops were big and roomy, it provided a restaurant where the workmen could buy good food at cost, it had even a reading room, and decent places where its girl-hands could rest; also the work was free from many of the elements of filth and repulsiveness that prevailed at the stockyards.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
17  The resemblance was not complete, of course, for Jurgis was generously paid and comfortably clad, and was provided with a spring cot and a mattress and three substantial meals a day; also he was perfectly at ease, and safe from all peril of life and limb, save only in the case that a desire for beer should lead him to venture outside of the stockyards gates.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
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