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Hotels were{{U}} (31) {{/U}}the earliest facilities{{U}}
(32) {{/U}}bound the United States together. They were both creatures
and creators of communities, as{{U}} (33) {{/U}}as symptoms of the
frenetic quest for communities. {{U}} (34) {{/U}}in the first part of the
nineteenth century, Americans were already forming the{{U}} (35)
{{/U}}of gathering from all corners of the nation for both public and{{U}}
(36) {{/U}}business and pleasure purposes. Conventions were the new
occasions, and hotels were distinctively American facilities{{U}} (37)
{{/U}}conventions possible. The first national convention of a major party
to choose a{{U}} (38) {{/U}}for President (that of the Clay for
President) was held in Baltimore, at a hotel that was then reputed to be the
best in the country. The presence in Baltimore{{U}} (39) {{/U}}Barnum’s
City Hotel, a six-storey building with two hundred apartments, helps explain{{U}}
(40) {{/U}}many other ea
