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BATTLE CREEK

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 534 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BATTLE See also:CREEK , a See also:city of See also:Calhoun See also:county, See also:Michigan, U.S.A., at the confluence of the See also:Kalamazoo See also:river with Battle Creek, about 48 m. S. of See also:Grand Rapids. Pop. (1890) 13,197; (1900) 18,563, ' This is the same word as " scrimmge," and is derived from the Anglo-See also:French eskrimir, See also:modern escri er, properly to fight behind See also:cover, now to fence. The origin of his is the Old High See also:German scirman, to fight behind a See also:shield, scirn, Modern German Schirm.of whom 1844 were See also:foreign-See also:born;(191o, See also:census) 25,267. It is served by the Michigan Central and the Grand See also:Trunk See also:railways, and by interurban electric lines. Here are the See also:hospital and laboratories of the See also:American Medical Missionary See also:College (of See also:Chicago) and the Battle Creek Sanitarium, established in 1866, which was a See also:pioneer in dietetic reform, and did much to make Battle Creek important in the manufacture of See also:health foods, and in the publication of See also:diet-reform literature. Among the See also:principal buildings, besides the hospital and the sanitarium, are several See also:fine churches, the central high school, the See also:Post See also:tavern and the Post See also:theatre. The city is a trading centre for the See also:rich agricultural and See also:fruit-growing See also:district by which it is surrounded, has See also:good See also:water-See also:power, and is an important manufacturing centre, its See also:chief manufactured products being cereal health foods, for which it has a wide reputation, and the manufacture of which See also:grew out of the dietetic experiments made in the laboratories of the sanitarium; and threshing See also:machines and other agricultural implements, See also:paper cartons and boxes, See also:flour, boilers, engines and pumps. Extensive See also:locomotive and See also:car shops of the Grand Trunk railway are here. In 1904 the See also:total factory product of Battle Creek was valued at $12,298,244, an increase of 95% over that for 19oo; and of the total in 1904 $5,191,655 was the value of See also:food preparations, which was 8.5% of the value of food preparations manufactured in the See also:United States, Battle Creek thus ranking first among American cities in this See also:industry. The water-See also:works are owned and operated by the See also:municipality, the water being obtained from See also:Lake Goguac, a summer See also:pleasure resort about 2 M. from the city.

Battle Creek, said to have been named from hostilities here between some surveyors and See also:

Indians, was settled in 1831, incorporated as a See also:village in 185o, and chartered as a city in 1859, the See also:charter of that See also:year being revised in 1900.

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