These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as New Philadelphia, New Providence, New Rochelle.
a city of -seat of Tuscarawas co., Ohio, the county Cleveland, on the Tusca 96 miles S. of canal, and rawas river, the Ohio the Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsylrailroads. It is an important minvania manufactories of ing center and has steel, sewer pipe, flour, brick, etc. The city contains a park, a public library, several institutions and a court house. Pop. (1910) 8,542; (1920) 10,718.
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chief of the Bahama Islands. Though not the coast, largest of the Bahama group, being 20 it contains Nassau, the seat of the miles long, . of government. It is 170 miles from States is flat, with lagoons and good curiosi- Florida, Rocks, about 15,000. ties, including ROCKS, harbor. Pop.
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The name given to a group of sandstones, generally of a red color, occurring between the carboniferous rocks and the lias, which name is given them in contradiction to the old red-sandstone group, which lies below the coal-measures and has a similar mineral structure. See OLD RED SANDSTONE; FACING-SAND; BLACK SAND.
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a city of New Training York in Westchester co., about 16 miles from the Grand Central Station, New York City. It is on Long Island Sound and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford, and the New York, Westchester and Boston railroads. It is one of the best known suburbs of New York City. There is a public library, a high school, a hospital, and several private schools. New Rochelle was for many years the home of Thomas Paine. It has important manufacturing interests. Pop. (1910) 28,867; (1920) 36,213.
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New Sand Fresh sand from the quarries and pits, furnished to the foundries for moulding purposes. See BLACK SAND; FACING-SAND; OLD SAND. Newton's Fusible Metal Bismuth 8, lead 5, tin 3. This alloy melts at 212 deg. See FUSIBLE ALLOYS. Nosing The projecting moulding on the edge of a stair tread, which stands immediately in front at the top edge of the riser. Nowel The bottom flask in a set composed of cope and nowel. See FLASKS.
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the former name of the territory lying between the English colony of Virginia and the Dutch colony of New Netherlands. The Swedes founded a settlement here in 1638.
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a city of Minnesota, the county-seat of Brown co., 88 miles S. W. of St. Paul, on the Minnesota river and on the Chicago and Northwestern and the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroads. It is the center of an important agricultural and stock-raising region and has important trade interests . There are manufactories of flour, cigars, marble, bricks, machine products, pipe organs, etc. The city has a handsom handsome court house, hospitals, and public schools. It is the seat of Martin Luther College. Pop. (1910) 5,648 ; (1920) 6,745,
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a city and former capital of British Columbia; on the Fraser river; 15 miles from its mouth, and 60 miles N. N. E. of Victoria, on the Canadian Pacific, the Great Northern, and the Canadian Northern railways. It has the residences of Episcopal and Roman Catholic bishops, a convent, Roman Catholic and Methodist colleges, the Dominion Penitentiary, Provincial Asylum for the Insane, sawmills, and great salmon-canning establishments. There are also manufactories of wire and nails, gasoline engines, etc. Pop. about 22,000.
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THE, the Western . This name is of very Hemisphere early origin, for Ferdinand inscribed on the tomb of Columbus, "To Castile and to Leon Columbus gave a new world."
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a library formed by the consolidation in 1895 of the Astor Library, Library, the Lenox Library, and the Tilden Trust. The Astor Library was incorporated in 1849 by John Jacob Astor, who bequeathed $400,000 to establish a Free Public Library. Other gifts at various times increased the endowment of the library to about $1,000,- 000 at the time of the consolidat n. The Lenox Library was incorporated in 1870. It was composed chiefly of the library of James Lenox, which had an endowment of about $500,000. The Tilden Trust was incorporated in 1887 and was comprised of the private library of Samuel Jones Tilden, who left to it the bulk of his estate amounting to about $2,000,000. The new building was erected at the corner of 5th Avenue and 42d Street, and was begun in 1902 and completed in 1911. It is the second largest library in the United States, Congressional Library being the first, Boston the third. In 1900 the New York Free Circulating Library was consolidated with the New York Public Library and a number of smaller librars were united with the New York Public Library. In 1901 Andrew Carnegie made available about $5,000,000 for the construction of branch libraries throughout the city. The library contained in 1920 2,639,129 bound volumes. Branches mainare tained in all parts of the city.
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or NIU-CHWANG, a city of China, province of Manchuria, on the Liao river, 20 miles from its mouth and 120 from Mukdeń. By the treaty of Tientsin (1858) New-chwang was opened to foreign trade. From the Louisville, and Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, accumulation of alluvial soil in the lower reaches of the river, vessels are obliged to load and discharge at Ying-tzu, at its mouth. It is there the Europeans are settled, and they call Ying-tzu by tne name of the treaty port No rt New-chwangwhich latter is now a greatly decayed place. Ying-tzu imports cotton, woolen, and silk goods, sugar, paper, metals, opium, tobacco, etc. Large quantities of salt are manufactured in the vicinity. The port was captured by the Japanese in March, 1895; in 1896 provision was made for connecting it with the Siberian railway. The port is closed four or five months from November with ice. Since 1872 Scotch Presbyterian missionaries have been working here; there is also a Roman Catholic mission. Pop. about 65,000.
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a city and county-seat of Licking co., O.; at the junction of three branches of the Licking river, on the Ohio canal, and on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis, the Baltimore and Ohio and electric railroads; 33 miles N. E. of Columbus. In the vicinity are petroleum refineries, coal mines, and sandstone quarries. Th The city contains railroad car shops, machine, stove, boiler, and other industrial plants, and glass works. Pop. (1910) 25,404; (1920) 26,718.
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