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L. Frank Baum’s Cautionary Tale About the Gifts of Electricity

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president Grover Cleveland officially opened the extravaganza by pressing a golden telegraph key that symbolically switched on 100,000 incandescent lights. It does this by projecting letters onto the person's forehead. Great Chicago Fire destroyed most of the city, it was preparing to host the World's Columbian Exposition.

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