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• A Visit to the Union Stock Yards

  Published: April 23, 2008, 4:13 pm

  Tags: Union Stockyards, Swift And Company, Chicago History

  century than by visiting the Union Stock Yards to watch a pig be brutally slaughtered by overworked, underpaid immigrants? Guess not. I found this wonderful 1903 Swift and Company souvenir and just had to share. The booklet begins with some facts and figures regarding the Swift operation and then provides a

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• A Story From the Stockyards: JOE GETLER AND HIS CATS

  Published: May 2, 2008, 8:42 am

  Tags: Union Stockyards, Chicago History

  ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE UNION STOCKYARDS: SKETCH-BOOK OF FAMILIAR FACES AND PLACES AT THE YARDS by W. Jos. Grand. Copyright 1896 A PERSONAGE of great importance at the stockyards, and without an account of whom no history of the place would be complete, is Smut, the enormous tortoise-shell cat, dear to the heart of Joe Getler, the

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