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Columbia (City of Missouri)

a city of Missouri, the county-seat of Boone co.

Wabash and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas railroads. Its manufactures include lumber, elevators, packing, and shoes. There are also important farming, fruit-growing, and stock-raising industries. The city is the seat of the University of Missouri, Christian College, Bible College, and Stephens College. It has also several institutions for the edu- There is a United cation of women.

States Government weather station and memorial hospital. Pop. (1910) 9,662; (1920) 10,681. a University of Missouri, Christian College, Bible College, and Stephens College. It has also several institutions for the edu- Pa.; on the Susquehanna river, the Philadelphia and Reading, and the Pennsylvania railroads and the Pennsylvania and

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