INDEX 



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Oats stored at Chicago, 215 

 Odessa, 217 



Ogden, William B., 75-78 

 Ohio, 64, 67, 242 

 Oklahoma, 69 

 Oliver, James, 49 

 Opium traffic, 204 

 Oregon, 242 



Oriental method of chaffering 



and bargaining, vogue of, 81 



Osborne, David M., 103, 120 



Pacific coast, no grain eleva- 

 tors on, 216 



Page, Prof., 95 



Palissy, 53 



Papers in 1831, 48 



"Parcimony in Nutrition," 204 



Paris Exposition (1855), 133 



Paris, no grain stored in, 217; 

 Bourse in, 222 



Parker, J., 63 



Pasteur, 51 



Patent, Cyrus H. McCor- 

 mick's first, "on Reaper, 59; 

 expiration of original, 91; 

 suits over extension of, 91- 

 98 



Patent Law, 91 



Patent Office, 91-93, 95, 185 



Patents for Reaper and mower 

 inventions, 34, 41; suits 

 over, 45, 90-98; for self- 

 binders, 118 



Patton, Dr. Francis L., 172 

 Paupers in period of 1809, 8 

 Paved streets, none in Chicago 



when Cyrus H. McCormick 



came, 70 



Peabody, George, 131, 155 

 Peavey, F. H., 214 

 Pennsylvania Railroad, 158; 



see also Baggage Case 

 Pericles, mills in time of, 



236 



Peterborough, N. H., 50 

 Photography, 49 

 Pillsbury, Minneapolis miller, 



236 



Pittsburg, Pa., 74 

 Platform on Reaper, origin of, 



33 



Plow, hillside, 45, 81 

 Plow, iron, thought to poison 



soil, 5; invention of, 49 

 Plow, self-sharpening, 45 

 Poe, 1, 51 

 Police force of Chicago in 



1847, 70 



Polish female laborers, 197 

 Pompeii, bread found in ruins 



of, 234 



Poorhouses used as store- 

 houses for wheat, 230 

 Portugal, 241 

 Post-office, Chicago, in 1847, 



70 



Postage in 1831, 50 

 Postage stamps, 70 

 Postal Union, 233 



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