Identifier: advancedgeography (find matches)
Title: Advanced Geography
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Alexis Everett Frye
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Publisher: Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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refining, in•ship-building, and in other great industries. More petroleum is refined in Cleveland than in any other city of the Union. Columbus, the capital, is a trade center for middle Ohio. This city is noted for the manufacture of fine•carriages. Toledo has docks several miles in length, and is a ship-ping point for grain, flour, iron ore, lumber and coal. Dayton is the center of a fine farming region and is also a great manufacturing city Chicago is the greatest railroad center and lake port in the world. This city ranks first also as a meat, grain and lumber market. No other city in the Union makes as much furniture or as many farming implements.In the manufacture of iron, only Pittsburg surpasses Chicago. The leading industry in Peoria is the manufacture of liquors. Springfield, the state capital, is a trade center for middle Illinois ; and Quincy, for the western part of the state. /Michigan. Detroit has a fine harbor on the Detroit river. This city, like ^^^^sg^gg^^^^Chicago and
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Image: Whaleback Barges - Youngstown is an important center of iron manufactures. Farming tools are made in several of the large cities of this section. Among these are Springfield, Akron and Canton. (Indiana . Indianapolis is the center of trade of the rich farming and grazing district of middle Indiana.Several lines of railroad meet in this city. They bring in grain and cattle, and carry back the various kinds of goods which are needed on the great farms. Meat-packing and flour-milling are leading industries in the state capital. Evansville is the principal shipping point for the grain,flour and meat products of southwest Indiana. Fort Wayne is an important trade center in the north-east part of the state. Many railroad cars are made in this city. South Bend is famous for its wagons and plows. New Albany is an important port on the Ohio river. Illinois. In the value of its manufactures, Chicago ranks second among American cities. The various articles made or prepared for market in a single year in this great city ar

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