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BOWLING GREEN

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 345 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOWLING See also:GREEN , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Wood county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., 20 M. S. by W. of See also:Toledo, of which it is a residential suburb. Pop. (189o) 3467; (1900) 5067 (264 See also:foreign-See also:born); (191o) 5222. Bowling Green is served by the See also:Cincinnati, See also:Hamilton & See also:Dayton and the Toledo & Ohio Central See also:railways, and by the Toledo See also:Urban & Interurban and the See also:Lake See also:Erie, Bowling Green & See also:Napoleon electric lines, the former extending from Toledo to Dayton. It is situated in a See also:rich agricultural region which abounds in oil and natural See also:gas. Many of the residences and business places of Bowling Green are heated by a privately owned central hot-See also:water See also:heating plant. Among the manufactures are cut See also:glass, stoves and ranges, See also:kitchen See also:furniture, guns, See also:thread-cutting See also:machines, brooms and agricultural implements. Bowling Green was first settled in 1832, was incorporated as a See also:town in 1855, and became a city in 1904.

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