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These United States-V. New Jersey: The Slave of Two Cities
Wilson Jr., Edmund | June 14, 1922 issue

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The article discusses the picturesque American state of New Jersey. From the first fringe of houses that one leaves on emerging from the Pennsylvania Tunnel and that litters the slope of the bill like the scum of a receding sea, from the yellowed and foundering marshes and the rusty back-yards of factories, from the tangled grooves of rail-road tracks and the greasy black of Newark Bay, one finds oneself immersed in an atmosphere of tarnishment and mess. The cities are indifferent and dingy; the people are seedy and dull; a kind of sloppiness and mediocrity seems to have fallen on the fields themselves, as if Nature herself had turned slattern and could no longer keep herself dressed.

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CITIES & towns; URBAN policy; PENNSYLVANIA; NEWARK Bay (N.J.); NEW Jersey; UNITED States
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