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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 475 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARGENTINE , a former See also:

city of See also:Wyandotte See also:county, Kansan, U. S. A., since See also:solo a See also:part of See also:Kansas City, on the S. See also:bank of the Kansas See also:river, just above its mouth. Pop. (1890) 4732; (1900) 5878, of whom 623 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 603 of See also:negro descent; (1905, See also:state See also:census) 6053. It is served by the See also:Atchison, See also:Topeka & See also:Santa Fe railway, which maintains here yards and See also:machine shops. The streets of the city run irregularly up the steep See also:face of the river bluffs. Its See also:chief See also:industrial See also:establishment is that of the See also:United See also:Zinc and Chemical See also:Company, which has here one of the largest See also:plants of its See also:kind in the See also:country. There are large See also:grain interests. The site was platted in 1880, and the city was first incorporated in 1882 and again, as a city -of the second class, in 1889.

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