Chiclayo
a city of Peru, 12 miles S. E. of Lambayeque; is the center of a valuable sugar district. The United States consular agent resides in this municipality. Population about 14,000.
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These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Chiclayo, Chicle, Chico.
Chicle
chikl, a gum manufactured from the sap of the sapodilla tree. This tree is found throughout tropical America. The chicle industry is confined largely to southern Mexico and Yucatan. Under favorable conditions the tree grows to a height of seventy feet. During May and June camps are established in the sapodilla forests, and preparations are made not unlike those for making maple sugar. The natives make V-shaped cuts in the bark of the tree. A crude milky sap is collected. It is carried in pails to large kettles and boiled down. An average tree will yield about six pounds of the gum, but must not be tapped oftener than once in three years. Well prepared chicle is nearly white when fresh and clean. It is a tough, firm, aromatic, elastic gum. The best quality is worth a dollar a pound in camp. In 1908 Yucatan and Mexico supplied the United States with 4,000,000 pounds of chicle. It is used in the manufacture of high grade chewing gum. Up to the end of the year named about 30,000,000 pounds of chicle had been imported by the United States. See Gums
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Chico
a city of California, in Butte co. It is on the Southern Pacific and the Butte County railroads, and on Chico creek. It is the center of an important fruit-growing, dairying, and mining region. It has a large plant of the Diamond Match Company, flour mills, and machine shops. It is the seat of a State normal school, and has a public library and a park. Pop. (1910) 3,750; (1920) 9,339. city in Hampden
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Chicopee
a co., Mass., on the Connecticut and Chicopee rivers, and on the Boston and Maine railroad, 3 miles N. of Springfield. It is connected with Holyoke and Springfield by electric street railway lines and contains the villages of Chicopee Falls, Willimansett, and Fairview. It is an important manufacturing city, and has fine water power, obtained from Chicopee Falls. Its manufactures include bicycles, blankets, military equipments, brass and cotton goods, machine tools, etc. It has a high school, graded public schools, public library, newspapers, several banks, etc. Pop. (1910) 25,401; (1920) 36,214.
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Chicory
a perennial herb belonging to the composite family. It is a native of Europe. The leaves are not unlike those of a dandelion, but the plant sends up a tall, branched, flowering stem. The flowers vary in color, sky-blue predominating. Like the dandelion it has escaped from cultivation and is found along the roadside. It is of value chiefly for a long, carroty root, much used as a substitute for coffee and as an adulteration of ground coffee. For this purpose the roots are washed, sliced, and dried in kilns. Chicory is put on the market, ground and unground. It is raised easily from the seed. From six to ten tons of roots are expected to the acre. American wholesalers import from 2,600,000 pounds to 4,000,000 pounds of chicory root annually. See Coffee ; Tea ; Cocoa
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Chiffon
shif'on or she-fon', a thin, transparent, gauzy, silk textile named from its flimsy qualities, the word chiffon signifying in French a rag. Chiffon is strong and durable as compared with its weight, for the best of thread is used in its manufacture. One pound of the warp used will measure about 42,240 feet or eight miles. In finishing, the fabric is "sized." That which is made quite stiff is called full-sized; that of softer and lighter texture, demi-sized. Chiffon is dyed in a variety of colors and delicate tints. It is printed in beautiful patterns and is used specially for evening gowns and millinery purposes. See Sizing
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Chignecto Bay
an inlet at the head of the Bay of Fundy, in British North America. It separates Nova Scotia from New Brunswick, is 30 miles long and 8 broad, and has an isthmus of only 14 miles in width between it and Northumberland strait, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
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Chihuahua
the largest State of Mexico; bounded on the N. and N. E. by New Mexico and Texas; area, 90,036 square miles; pop. about 450,000. In the E. is the Bolson dé Mami, a vast desert of sand and alkali pimi, plains; in the S. and W. the surface is mountainous, and there are numerous rivers. The State is better adapted for stock-raising than for agriculture; the fertile districts are mainly confined to the valleys and river-courses. Cotton is grown in the S. The silver mines were for centuries among the richest in Mexico, and though many are now abandoned, mining is still the chief industry. The State is traversed by the Mexican Central railway and has also several other railroad lines. The capital, Chihuahua, 225 miles S. of El Paso, rises like an oasis in the desert, among roses and orange groves. It is well built, with broad, clean streets, an imposing cathedral (1717-1789), a mint, and an aqueduct 3 miles long, and is the center of considerable trade with Texas. It is in the center of a rich mining district and has important cotton and woolen mills. Founded about 1700, it had in the 18th century 80,000 inhabitants. Pop. about 40,000.
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Chilblain
or FROSTBITE, a blain or sore on the hands or feet produced by cold, especially if the parts were previously much heated.
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Child
LYDIA MARIA, an American prose-writer; born in Medford, Mass., Feb. 11, 1802. Her first novel, "Hobomok," was written and published in 1821. She was an ardent abolitionist, and published the first book written on that subject, entitled "Appeal for that class of Americans called African." Among her numerous works are: "Philothea," a romance of Greece in the days of Pericles (1835); "Looking Toward Sunset" (1864); "Maria: A Romance of the Republic" (1867); and "Aspirations of the World" (1878). She died in Wayland, Mass., Oct. 20, 1880.
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Child
RICHARD WASHBURN, appointed ambassador to Italy, May 17, 1921.
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Child
RICHARD WASHBURN. In 1922 he was named chief observer for the United States at the Near Eastern Conference at Lausanne, Switzerland, where he presented America's views and aims.
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