The two texts I chose were “Alton Encyclopedia 1906” and “STL Encyclopedia 1862”. My hypothesis was both documents would be very similar. My hypothesis is founded on both cities being in close proximity to each other in the same region and environment. Time was also a factor with the encyclopedia’s only being roughly forty years apart. My assumption would be not much would have changed in that timespan. The most common words appearing were city, louis, and river. This makes sense because the subject are two cities. Even though the Alton Encyclopedia is about Alton, its proximity to a larger city makes it very attached to St Louis. The same goes for the word river. With both cities being very close to a river, how both cities function will be directly related to the river.