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CHANUTE , a See also:city of Neosho See also:county, See also:Kansas, U.S.A., i m. from the Neosho See also:river, and about 120 M. S.S.W. of Kansas city. Pop. (1890) 2826; (1900) 4208, of whcm 210 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 171 were negroes; (1910 See also:census) 9272. Chanute is served by the See also:Atchison, See also:Topeka & See also:Santa Fe and the See also:Missouri, Kansas & See also:Texas See also:railways, the former having large repair shops. The city is in the Kansas-See also:Oklahoma oil and See also:gas See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, and is surrounded by a See also:fine farming and dairying region, in which See also:special See also:attention is given to the raising of small See also:fruit; oil, gas, See also:cement See also:rock and See also:brick shale are found in the vicinity. Among the city's manufactures are refined oil, See also:Portland cement, vitrified brick and See also:tile, See also:glass, See also:asphalt, See also:ice, cigars, drilling machinery, and See also:flour. The See also:municipality owns and operates the waterworks, a natural gas plant, and an electric See also:lighting plant. Four towns —New See also:Chicago, Tioga, Chicago Junction and Alliance—were started here about the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time (187o). In 1872 they were consolidated, and the See also:present name was adopted in See also:honour of See also:Octave Chanute (b. 1832), the See also:civil engineer and aeronautist (see See also:FLIGHT AND FLYING), then the engineer of the See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence, Leavenworth & See also:Galveston railway (now See also:part of the Atchison See also:system). Chanute was incorporated as a city of the third class in 1873, and its See also:charter was revised in 1888. Natural gas and oil were found here in 1899, and Chanute became one of the leaders of the Kansas See also:independent refineries in their contest with the See also:Standard OR See also:Company.
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