Collier's New Encyclopedia

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Longview – Lovejoy

Longview

county-seat of Gregg co., Tex., 24 miles W. of Marshall, on the Sabine river, Texas and Pacific, International and Great Northern, and Texas and Gulf railroads. Commercial center of lumber, cotton, live-stock district. Has foundries, plow works, and mineral wells. Pop. (1910) 5,155; (1920) 5,713.

Loon

a town in the Philippine Islands situated on the island of Bohol on the western coast. It is three miles S. of Sandigan Island and the largest town in that section of the archipelago.

Near by is a good anchoring spot. Pop. about 20,000.

Lord Mayor

the title given to the chief magistrates of London and York, England, and of Dublin, Ireland, during the year for which they hold office.

Lord's Prayer

the prayer which Jesus taught His disciples (Matt. vi: 9-13; Luke xi: 2-4).

Lory

a group of birds composed of about 90 species, closely allied to the parrots; brush-tongued; dense, richly colored plumage; active and gentle. They are to be found in Polynesia and Australasia, except New Zealand.

Los Andes

a state in Venezuela, situated in the western part of that country, now divided into three states:

Trujillo, Mérida, and Tachira. The population is about 350,000, and the area about 50,000 square miles.

Los Rios

inland province of Ecuador, capital Babahoyo (Bodegas). Mountainous, being on slope of Andes, communi- into a pillar of salt. By his daughters cates with sea by Guayaquil river, chief industries farming and stock raising.

Pop. about 35,000.

Los Santos

town, Panama, 95 miles S. W. of the city of Panama, near the Bay of Parita, in province of the same name of which the capital is Las Tablas.

Lothians

THE. Name applied to Linlithgow, and Haddington. This name formerly included all the section of Scotland held by the English in the eleventh century, a territory larger than the three counties.

Lothrop

HARRIET MULFORD, pseudonym MARGARET SIDNEY, an Amer- Vol. VI-Cyc-A LOTI LOUBET joined the French navy during the

Loughborough

a market-town of Leicestershire, England, with a population in 1920 of about 23,000. From a bell foundry located there came the great bell of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. The chief industry is hosiery manufacture, but there are also iron mills and dye works. It is one of the few cities in England not represented in Parliament.

Lovejoy

ELIJAH PARISH, an 1868.

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