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building, the auditorium, the public library and the Masonic library, which contains one of the best collections of Masonic literature in the See also:

WORLD

world. The city has two well-equipped hospitals, a See also:

home for aged See also:

WOMEN

women, a home for the friendless, and four parks. The grounds of the Cedar Rapids See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country See also:

CLUB (connected with " clump ")

club comprise 18o acres. Cedar Rapids is in a See also:

rich agricultural country. The name of the city was suggested from the rapids in the river, which afford abundant See also:

WATER

water See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power and have enabled the city to take first See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank in Iowa (1905) as a manufacturing centre. From 1900 to 1905 there was an increase in the value of its manufactured products from $11,135,435 to $I6,279,706, or 46.2%. More than one-See also:

FOURTH

fourth of the value of its manufactures is in Quaker Oats and other See also:

food preparations; among those of less importance are See also:

LUMBER

lumber and planing-See also:

mill products, foundry and See also:

machine-See also:

SHOP

shop products, See also:

FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture, patent medicines, pumps, carriages and waggons, packed meats and agricultural implements.

Cedar Rapids has also a large 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 See also:

trade and a large jobbing business, especially in dry goods, millinery, groceries, See also:

paper and drugs. At Cedar Rapids are See also:

Coe See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College (co-educational; Presbyterian), which See also:

GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew out of the Cedar Rapids Collegiate See also:

INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute (1851), was 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:

Daniel Coe, a benefactor, and was chartered under its See also:

PRESENT

present name and opened in 1881; the Interstate See also:

Correspondence See also:

SCHOOLS

schools, and the Cedar Rapids business college. The first settlers came in 1838; but the city's See also:

early, growth was slow, and it was not incorporated until 1856. It has been governed by See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission since 1908.

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