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BRAINERD , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of See also:

CROW (Dutch, kraal, Ger. Krdhe, Fr. corbeau, Lat. corvus)

Crow Wing county, See also:

MINNESOTA

Minnesota, U.S.A., on the E. See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi See also:

RIVER

river, about 127 M. N.W. of Minneapolis. Pop. (1890) 5703; (1900) 7524, of whom 2193 were See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born; (1905) 8133; (1910) 8526. It is served by the Minnesota & See also:

INTERNATIONAL, THE

International and the See also:

NORTHERN

Northern Pacific See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. The latter maintains here large See also:

CAR (Late Lat. carra)

car and repair shops, and a See also:

SANATORIUM (a modern Latinism, formed from sanare, to cure, restore to health, sanus, whole, healthy, well; often wrongly spelled sanatarium or sanitarium)

sanatorium for its employees. There are also the Sisters of St See also:

Joseph See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital, a county See also:

court See also:

house, a public library and a Y.M.C.A. See also:

BUILDING

building. A See also:

DAM

dam across the Mississippi provides See also:

WATER

water See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power (about 6o,000 H.P.) which is utilized extensively for manufacturing purposes. Lumbering is an important See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry, and there are saw See also:

mills and planing mills, and an extensive See also:

CREOSOTE, CREASOTE

creosote plant for treating railway ties and See also:

TIMBER

timber. There are also See also:

FLOUR

flour mills, See also:

paper and pulp mills, See also:

CIGAR

cigar factories, a brewery, a large foundry and a See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain elevator. In Igo6.large quantities of See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron ore were discovered in the vicinity; the new range, the Cuyuna, See also:

RUNNING

running through the city from See also:

north-See also:

east to See also:

south-See also:

west. Brainerd, named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

David Brainerd, was settled in 1870, and chartered as a city in 1883.

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